The midfielder's goal from outside the penalty area gave Pep Guardiola's team their first European trophy and helped them complete the legendary triple.
After the game, he said: "I didn't play well in the first half, but this discussion about mentality, I tell myself you have to get through the circumstances, and in the end, I score a goal. Unbelievable.'
As Rodri recounts, "I said Pep you have to play me, we had to win and today we did, like Sergio, Fernandinho, Silva, all of these players that make the club big this is for them." Rodri had to persuade the manager to keep him in.
Before Saturday's final, the 26-year-old had only scored one goal in the Champions League, but he made all the difference in a tight contest.
Despite forcing Ederson into two outstanding saves, Simone Inzaghi's team proved to be a greater test for City than many had anticipated. Ederson may now look back on some errant shooting in the second half.
I've been here four years, but all these folks around here have been waiting for how many years, so this is a dream come true for them, said Rodri. "God gives you this present in the end," he concluded.
We didn't anticipate performing well in a final like this because of emotions and anxieties, but we competed fiercely nonetheless.
"We made history, but the good news is that this group is more ambitious and we want more." It is a dream that we must savor because this particular time won't come around again until, maybe, next year.
Rodri participated for City in the game in 2021, which they lost to Chelsea.
The fact that City fell short of Man United's greatest feat will make City supporters extra happier about Saturday's victory.
Manchester is now the second city in Europe, behind Milan, to have produced two Champions League winners, matching the Red Devils' legendary 1999 treble-winning season.
Before the game, Peter Schmeichel, a player for both sides, said that if City won the treble, he would "hold his hands up to" them since they have this season played "the best football I have ever seen."
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