Allianz Arena, Munich, May 31, 2025. Paris are not only walking into a Champions League final. They are walking into every final they lost, every spring that ended in pain, every year when the dream seemed too big for the club. Opposite them stand Inter Milan, Serie A's best defence, with their block, their experience, their edge. But this time, PSG do not arrive as a collection of talents waiting for a moment of genius to save them. They arrive with a clear idea: press, rotate, suffocate, play together until the final looks simple.
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Starting XI - UCL Final
Champions League - Final · 2025-05-31
Paris Saint-Germain5-0Inter Milan
12'A. Hakimi1-0
20'D. Doué2-0
63'D. Doué3-0
73'K. Kvaratskhelia4-0
86'S. Mayulu5-0
Goal by goal
1-0 Hakimi (12')
1.Fabián Ruiz passes back to Vitinha
2.Vitinha passes from the edge of the box to Doué on the right side
3.D. Doué finds Hakimi at the far post
4.A. Hakimi arrives at the far post, goal!
2-0 Doué (20')
1.Pacho recovers the ball in his half and launches Kvara on the left
2.Kvaratskhelia passes in behind to Dembélé on the left
3.O. Dembélé launched on the left, drives toward the box
4.O. Dembélé switches play across to Doué on the right
5.D. Doué shoots, deflection off DiMarco, goal!
3-0 Doué (63')
1.Vitinha passes between the lines to Dembélé
2.O. Dembélé fakes and back-heel flick to Vitinha
3.Vitinha collects and surges forward toward the box
4.Vitinha inside pass to Doué in the heart of the box
5.D. Doué low right-footed finish drilled into the bottom corner!
4-0 Kvaratskhelia (73')
1.Nuno Mendes recovers the ball and launches Dembélé on the left
2.O. Dembélé passes to Kvaratskhelia in the center-left
3.K. Kvaratskhelia drives into the box, beats two defenders
4.K. Kvaratskhelia drives it across to the left side of the goal!
5-0 Mayulu (86') - The Academy Kid
1.B. Barcola surges down the left wing and passes to Mayulu
2.S. Mayulu passes back to Barcola who lays it off again into his path
3.B. Barcola passes to Mayulu
4.S. Mayulu 120 seconds after coming on, strikes from a tight angle, goal!
Total domination
59%
PSG possession
23
Shots
Inter : 8
≈3
Estimated xG
Inter : ≈0.5 selon les modèles
0
Inter shots on target (1st half)
Doué is 19 and plays as if the night already belongs to him: two goals, one assist, three direct goal contributions in a Champions League final. Kvaratskhelia, who arrived just five months earlier, scores the fourth as if he had always been there. Then Mayulu, the Parisian academy kid, comes on in the 84th minute and scores 120 seconds later. The 5-0 is not only a scoreline. It is a sequence of symbols: the prodigy, the signing, the child of the club, and behind them a team that can no longer be reduced to one name.
It absolutely didn't feel like my Inter out there. The players are the first to know it.
Simone Inzaghi
Post-match press conference after UCL final, Munich, May 31, 2025
It felt like football from the future.
Adam Bate, Sky Sports
Article after UCL final PSG 5-0 Inter Milan
The big day has finally arrived. The victory, and with style, of an entire club. Congratulations PSG.
Kylian Mbappé
Instagram post, May 31, 2025
And then there is Marquinhos. Twelve years in Paris, arrived at 19, a witness to almost every modern scar the club carried. The Remontada, the 2020 final, Madrid, the springs when everything closed in. He watched the superstars arrive, carry the hope, then leave. In Munich, he is no longer watching a dream slip away. He is finally watching it come toward him. When he lifts the trophy with the big ears, it is not only the PSG captain who wins. It is an entire memory rising again.
I suffered, but I grew up with this team. It is the best day of my life.
Marquinhos
Speaking to M6 after the UCL final, May 31, 2025
Luis Enrique has built a team, not names, not marketing. They changed their way and that is what brought them here.
Robert Pirès
Sky Sports interview, after UCL final, June 2025
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