PSG dominates Inter Milan in style: What stood out from a historic Champions League win


No Neymar, Messi or Mbappé? No problem for PSG

Paris Saint-Germain won the UEFA Champions League title for the first time in club history on Saturday, and they did it in style, routing Inter Milan 5-0 at Allianz Arena in Munich.

More than a decade after its deep-pocketed Qatar owners bought the club and then signed a parade of superstars to try to win European soccer’s most prestigious trophy, a comparatively anonymous cast of prospects and veterans finally delivered a decisive and fully deserved victory over the Italians.

Achraf Hakimi sent the Parisians on their way just 12 minutes in, finishing off a gorgeous team move. Nineteen-year-old Desire Doue added two more goals on either side of halftime. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Senny Mayuluthen, 18, then provided the exclamation point, scoring PSG’s fourth and fifth inside the final 20 minutes. The lopsided margin of victory for Luis Enrique's team marks the biggest ever in a Champions League final.

Here’s how the biggest game in global club soccer unfolded.

Hakimi will never score an easier goal in his life; all the Moroccan fullback needed to do to punish his former club was side-foot Doué's square pass into an open net from close range.

But the play that put Doué in position to set up what turned out to be the game-winner wass a thing of beauty. Kvaratskhelia found Fabian Ruiz, who passed to Vitinha. Vitinha then picked out Doué inside the box for the teenager to tee up Hakimi. It was a sign of what was to come...Read more

 

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