Football – PSG wins the Champions League: together they are invincible

A beautiful peculiarity of sport is that in the knowledge of an end result you can quickly persuade yourself that it was actually clear from the start. Especially when a result is so clear that there is no doubt about who the lawful winner is. The triumph of Paris Saint-Germain in the final of the Champions League 2025 against Inter Milan will surely be part of these self-fulfilling sports counts. The 5-0 victory of the French, the highest in the history of the premier class, was too dominant in the final of Munich. This story of a young team with a great coach who became an unstoppable unit after the farewell of her megastar is too good.

“I don’t know if you can call it a masterpiece,” Luis Enrique tried to briefly tried to modesty after the award ceremony in the TV interview. But immediately afterwards the PSG coach pushed: »We had a fantastic start and found the right balance between motivation and calm. My team was exceptionally good. ”In retrospect, it seems difficult to imagine how Paris should have lost the long-awaited first Champions League title in club history this summer. In the Bavarian capital.

PSG dominates and over the field

Even before the kick-off, even before Linkin Park’s opening show (there is again with a new singer) and David Garrett (still exists with old violin), the PSG fans ensured clear balance of power in the arena. They celebrated their team much louder than any of the inter-fans, as if they already knew that Paris would be 2-0 in the lead half an hour later. Or did the inter-fans know in advance that the air was out of their favorites? At least the Tifosi did not bring a choreo to the entrance to the teams, while the French followers unrolled a huge transparent with the Eiffel Tower and the inscription “Ensemble, Nous Sommes Invincibles” – together we are invincible.

And so PSG also played on the lawn – together and with the rock -proof conviction to be the best team in Europe. In the first half, the French Inter Formally, had 62 percent possession and 13: 2 goal shots. Just because Ousmane Dembélé and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia missed great chances shortly before the break, the game was not decided after 45 minutes. Milan’s actually such stable defense was completely apart by Paris. Kvaratskhelia and the outstanding Désiré Doué repeatedly exchanged their wings or moved to the center. Dembélé was everywhere as a disguised playmaker, just not in his actual position in the storm tip. Instead, right-back and ex-interlore Achraf Hakimi got the 1-0 after twelve minutes from the best center forward position.

The city of love to defend

“They are very dynamic and very good in finding the free teammate, so we had big problems,” said a visibly frustrated Denzel Dumfries after the game in the mixed zone. The Dutchman had been directly involved in five goals at Inters epic semi-final duel against FC Barcelona, ​​but did not develop on Saturday. Paris’ Kvaratskhelia sprinted back several times after attacks and involved Dumfries in duels before it could be really dangerous. The Dembélé, who was once a lack of professionalism at Borussia Dortmund, also tirelessly started the opposing defenders for 90 minutes and thus suffocated Inters in the germ.

“I would give Dembélé the Ballon d’Or for how he defended today,” said Enrique about his protégé qualities so far. The fact that Dembélé and his offensive colleagues discovered their great love for defending must also be attributed to their Spanish coach. In the first season without the superstars of past days, such as Lionel Messi, David Beckham, Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimović and Kylian Mbappé, Enrique shaped a team from some of the Standen ensemble era and many young players who tear themselves away for each other and for their game idea. After his triple with FC Barcelona ten years ago, he is now the second football coach, who has reached the perfect season of championship, cup victory and champions League title with two clubs.

Fans and trainers commemorate Xana Enrique

A particularly emotional circle also closes for the 55-year-old. In 2015 he celebrated the Champions League victory with Barça with his then five-year-old daughter Xana. After the 3-1 against Juventus Turin, father and daughter stuck a Barcelona flag together in the lawn of the Berlin Olympic Stadium. Four years later, Xana died of a rare form of bone cancer. After the success on Saturday, the Spaniard moved a T-shirt on the Munich lawn that is reminiscent of the scene with his daughter. At the same time, the Paris fans unroll another huge transparent, on which Enrique puts a PSG flag in the ground while his daughter watched him. Another story of this endgame that felt like predestined the day after.

For Paris, there is actually only one – but previously unknown – question: How do you behave on the other side of the ultimate success? Since the takeover by the Emirate of Qatar 2011, the Champions League title has been the big goal of the club bosses. Around 2.3 billion euros were pumped into the PSG squad. Now the big goal has been achieved, with a team that has far from reaching its maximum performance. Désiré Doué, who, according to his template for Hakimi, scored the second goal in the 20th minute and the decisive 3: 0 (63rd) is only 19 years old. Just as young as the Parisian home Senny Mayulu, which was 5-0 shortly before the end.

So far, Paris has always assumed that absurd sums will be invested again in the next transfer window so that the dream of Europe’s most important club title will finally come true. Now the Qatarian club tour can simply watch your team grow. However, after the victorious final there is another task for the triple winner. Because while it remained calm in Munich after the final whistle, there were almost 200 injured in France and especially in Paris after the PSG victory with almost 200. There was a dead man in both the capital and in the southwestern French Dax.

Purely sporty, however, Paris does not have to worry about the immediate future. Coach Luis Enrique already announced that the next year will be trying to conquer Europe again. And Man of the Match Désiré Doué explained to the historical title for Paris: “We wrote history and that’s just the beginning” – because together this PSG could soon be really indomitable.