Paris Saint-Germain won the Champions League for the first time in club history on Saturday. The club from Paris won the final with resounding numbers against Denzel Dumfries’ Internazionale: 5-0.
For Internazionale, with Dumfries in the starting lineup, there was no competing against PSG. The Dutchman played a key role against FC Barcelona in the semi-finals, but in Munich he was unable to exert his strength at any point.
After twenty minutes, it was already 2-0 for PSG thanks to goals from Achraf Hakimi and Désiré Doué. The latter, at the age of nineteen, was allowed to start by coach Luis Enrique and fully repaid the faith.
With his goal, Doué became the third teenager to score in a Champions League final after Patrick Kluivert (in 1995) and the Brazilian Carlos Alberto (in 2004). The Frenchman also made it 3-0 after the break, after which Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored the fourth PSG goal.
Senny Mayulu then scored the fifth goal for PSG. Never before has a final in the battle for the European Cup I or the Champions League ended with such a large difference.
PSG Finally Wins Champions League
What is special about PSG’s Champions League win is that the club previously failed to win the ‘cup with the big ears’ with stars like Kylian Mbappé, Lionel Messi and Neymar. With slightly smaller names, the club finally succeeded on Saturday.
There was little visible in the Allianz Arena in Munich of the pressure on PSG to finally win the Champions League. Immediately after a grand show by Linkin Park, it was PSG that set the tone.
The smooth-running attack with Hakimi as the final destination was, after twelve minutes, the first sign that an unforgettable evening awaited PSG. That feeling was reinforced when Doué shot the 2-0 in via the calf of Federico Dimarco. Doué already had one goal and one assist.
After the break, Doué’s evening became even more beautiful. He scored again and is the first player since 1964 with two goals and an assist in the final of the Champions League/European Cup I. At that time, Sandro Mazzola succeeded, who did so notably on behalf of Inter.
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For the players of Inter, there wasn’t even one goal on Saturday. PSG goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma had little to do. On the other side of the field, Kvaratskhelia and Mayulu (also nineteen years old) made Inter’s defeat even more painful.
Dumfries can, in that regard, shake hands with national coach Ronald Koeman. In 1994, as a player for FC Barcelona, he lost the Champions League final 4-0 to AC Milan. Until Saturday, that was the biggest score ever in a final for the Champions League trophy.
Koeman had already won the European Cup I twice at the time. For Dumfries, it is the second defeat in a Champions League final, after he already lost to Manchester City with Inter in 2023. At that time, Stefan de Vrij was on the bench. That was also the case in Munich on Saturday.