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Kyle Walker shares Man City Champions League motivation as Ederson makes penalty admission

Here are your latest Manchester City evening headlines on Wednesday, June 7.

Walker reveals Champions League motivation

Kyle Walker believes this Manchester City team deserve to be considered one of the Premier League's greatest, but insists they can only lay claim to that tag if they go on and win the Champions League.

The Blues are in their second final in three years on Saturday and victory against Inter Milan in Istanbul on Saturday will see them match Manchester United's 1999 treble winners.

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City would become only the second English club to win the league title, FA Cup and European Cup in the same season, to add to the five domestic titles in six years won under Pep Guardiola.

It is a remarkable haul of silverware for a team that has rewritten the record books in the Premier League, but Walker knows conquering Europe is key to putting themselves in the conversation to be the greatest team this country has produced.

Ederson preparing for UCL penalty shootout

The common conception this week has been that Manchester City are merely 90 minutes away from winning the treble, but Blues fans of a certain vintage could tell you things are rarely that simple.

Pep Guardiola's side are strong favourites to beat Inter Milan in Saturday night's Champions League final in Istanbul and they will be expected to wrap up the third leg of a historic treble within normal time.

City avoided the need for any extra work last weekend, beating Manchester United 2-1 at Wembley in the FA Cup final and the expectation is that Inter won't pose as stern a challenge on the banks of the Bosphorus - but anything can happen in a cup final and City are leaving nothing to chance.

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