inevitability

The condition of being inevitable.

Now, cramped and outclassed as Euston has become, rebuilding hangs over it with an awful inevitability.

Smalling’s quick one-two of yellow cards towards the end of the first half had left an air of inevitability about what would follow and, if anything, it was probably a surprise that City restricted themselves to Sergio Agüero’s goal bearing in mind another of United’s defenders, Marcos Rojo, was taken off on a stretcher early in the second half with a dislocated shoulder.

An inevitable condition or outcome.