PSG Thrash Inter Milan 5:0 To Win Champions League
PSG produced a dominant performance to defeat Inter Milan 5-0 in the final of the 2024-25 Champions League at the Allianz Arena on Saturday to emerge as champions of the competition.
The French giants dominated the encounter as Inter Milan struggled to find their bearings, struggling to cope with the youthfulness, skills and wizardry of the PSG team.
Luis Enrique’s side started the game on the front foot, causing Inter Milan problems with Desire Doue leading the charge.
He produced the cross that led to the first goal from Achraf Hakimi, who finished off a stunning team move to give PSG a 1-0 lead in the 12th minute.
Doué increased PSG’s lead with a strike that deflected off Dimarco following a stunning counter-attacking move to make it 2-0 eight minutes later.
Acerbi missed the opportunity to quickly get Inter Milan back into the game after failing to direct his header on target despite beating two PSG defenders to the ball in the 23rd minute.
PSG did enough to hold on to a deserved lead going into the break, with Inter Milan unable to find answers to their difficult questions.
Enrique’s side continued from where they stopped in the first half after the restart, with Kvaratskhelia failing to find the target in a promising position.
The night went from bad to worse for Inter Milan when defender Bisseck suffered a hamstring injury, which forced him off in the 62nd minute; he was replaced by Matteo Darmian.
Doue made it 3-0 with a clinical finish into the bottom-right corner from a Vitinha pass.
He is the first player to score two or more goals in a Champions League final since Gareth Bale for Real Madrid against Liverpool in 2018.
Kvaratskhelia finally got his name on the scoresheet with a simple finish above Sommer to make it 4-0 in the 73rd minute.
Two minutes later, Donnaruma made a good save to deny Thuram the opportunity to reduce the deficit for Inter Milan.
Substitute Senny Mayulu put the icing on the cake with the fifth goal to take Inter Milan to the cleaners.
It was the biggest win in the Champions League final history as Inter Milan made history in a negative way.
PSG have now won four trophies this season, adding it to the French Super Cup, Coupe de France, and the Ligue 1 title. They are the first-ever French men’s side to win the treble.
Luis Enrique became the seventh manager to win the European Cup / Champions League with two different teams.
PSG Thrash Inter Milan 5:0 To Win Champions League is first published on The Whistler Newspaper
