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5 hours ago
- Business
- Yahoo
What is the biggest win in a Champions League final as PSG thrash Inter?
Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Inter Milan to win the Champions League for the first time as the French side became the first team in European Cup history to win by a five-goal margin. Achraf Hakimi and Desire Doue put PSG two goals up inside 20 minutes as Luis Enrique's stylish side put Inter to the sword in a dominant first half. Advertisement It felt like Inter needed a miracle at half-time, but their task became even harder when the 19-year-old Doue finished off a devastating counter-attack shortly after the hour. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia then added a fourth, which moved PSG into esteemed company. But another 19-year-old, Senny Mayulu, came off the bench and two minutes later scored the fifth goal to make history in Munich. It's the first time a team has won a European Cup or Champions League final by five goals. Before tonight, the record margin of victory was four goals. It happened four times: Real Madrid 7-3 Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960; Bayern Munich 4-0 Atletico Madrid, following a replay, in 1974; Milan 4-0 Steaua Bucharest in 1989 and Milan 4-0 Barcelona in 1994. Advertisement With PSG heading for a record Champions League win, Inter were left with unwanted history. (Getty Images) Ally McCoist said on TNT Sports: 'Inter Milan have gone. Take nothing away from PSG as they have battered them into submission. They're absolutely done Inter Milan - they're all over the place.' PSG, who lost the 2020 final to Bayern Munich, have spent billions in search of the Champions League, signing some of the best players in the world in Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi but without going all the way. With those stars having left, Enrique built a wonderful attacking side that has allowed the young talents of Doue, Kvaratskhelia and Ousmane Dembele to thrive and there is no doubt that they have been the best in Europe this season. Former Liverpool captain Steven Gerrard added on TNT Sports: 'The towel went in after 60 minutes. There was a huge gulf between both teams. A wonderful performance. For a young coach, and young players watching that, it's the perfect performance.'
Yahoo
7 hours ago
- Business
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Doue lauds ‘really good human being' Enrique after PSG win Champions League
PSG's wonderkid Desire Doue hailed his manager Luis Enrique after scoring twice to help his side win the Champions League. The French champions thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 in Munich to win the club's first ever Champions League title. Advertisement PSG got off to the perfect start when Achraf Hakimi slotted in from close range on just 12 minutes. Doue then grabbed his first and his side's second with a deflected strike which beat Yann Sommer, before adding his second just after the hour mark to make it 3-0. Khvicha Kvaratskheklia and youngster Senny Mayulu then added one each to round off a brutal beating for Inter. Doue has enjoyed a fantastic debut season at the club after signing from Rennes last summer, scoring 15 times in all competitions. And the 19-year-old credited his manager Enrique for helping him to settle so quickly. 'He's been here two years and he's made history for the club,' Doue told TNT Sports. Advertisement 'Tactically, mentally, he's a really good coach and not just as a coach, as a human being too. 'It's a pleasure to work with him. 'It's just incredible for me. I have no words.' PSG have long been contenders in the Champions League knockout stages, and finished as runners up back in 2020 when they were beaten by Bayern Munich in the final. Having seen superstars like Lionel Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe come and go without winning the competition, however, PSG midfielder Vitinha says it shows just how good this current team is. 'It means everything,' Vitinha said. 'The fans are the main reason we wanted to win this trophy. Advertisement 'But we wanted to win this trophy for a lot of reasons. It's our dream, it's everyone's dream, it's my dream and I'm glad we made it. It's incredible. 'It says a lot about this group of players, this team. It's a very good team and this result is not by magic. We are a very good team and we are very happy we did it like this and now we're going to celebrate.'
Daily Tribune
a day ago
- Sport
- Daily Tribune
PSG claims maiden Champions League
AFP | Munich Saint-Germain won the Champions League for the first time as Luis Enrique's brilliant young side outclassed Inter Milan on Saturday in the most one-sided final ever with teenager Desire Doue scoring twice in an astonishing 5-0 victory. Doue supplied the pass for Achraf Hakimi to give PSG an early lead and the 19-year-old went from provider to finisher as his deflected shot doubled the advantage in the 20th minute. Doue scored again just after the hour mark, ending any doubt about the outcome before Khvicha Kvaratskhelia ran away to get the fourth and substitute Senny Mayulu, another teenager, made it five. Inter were simply no match for the French club, who recorded the biggest victory by any team in the final in the 70-year history of the European Cup and Champions League. 'This means everything. It's our dream. It's incredible. The result is not by magic. I'm happy we did it like this,' said PSG's Portuguese midfielder Vitinha. The triumph for the Parisians follows over a decade of huge investment from their Qatari owners, and comes five years after they lost to Bayern Munich in their only previous final appearance. Already domestic league and cup double winners, they are just the second French winners of European football's biggest prize –- Marseille were the first in 1993, when they beat AC Milan in a final also played in Munich. It is also a second Champions League for PSG coach Luis Enrique, who won with Lionel Messi's Barcelona in 2015. This youthful PSG side is arguably the best the competition has seen since, one that has been intelligently pieced together over the last two years and fully unleashed this season following the departure of Kylian Mbappe. 'It was the objective since the start of last season to make history. I have felt a really strong connection with the players and the supporters,' Luis Enrique told broadcaster Canal Plus. For a bewildered Inter, there was to be no first Champions League title since 2010 as they failed to add to their three previous triumphs in the competition. Simone Inzaghi's side have got to the final twice in three seasons and lost both, and this defeat comes a week after they missed out on the Serie A title to Napoli. They end the campaign trophyless, and their ageing side will need to be rebuilt. 'PSG absolutely deserved to win this match. We are very disappointed,' admitted Inzaghi. 'As a coach I am proud of our campaign, but we're not satisfied with tonight's game. PSG outplayed us. 'I thanked the players for what they did this season. We won no silverware, but I'm proud.'
Kuwait Times
2 days ago
- Sport
- Kuwait Times
Teenage sensation Doue steps out of shadows into superstardom
PARIS: Paris St Germain teenager Desire Doue, who was not even guaranteed a spot in the starting lineup, burst into instant stardom when he lit up the Champions League final as they thrashed Inter Milan 5-0 on Saturday. With a deft assist and two clinical finishes at Munich's Allianz Arena, the attacking midfielder, who celebrates his 20th birthday on Tuesday, transformed from squad option to overnight sensation in PSG's 5-0 demolition of the Italian side. "He is reaping the rewards of his hard work," coach Luis Enrique had presciently said weeks before the final. "He will continue to grow. He's in the right club for his development." Luis Enrique's decision to select Doue over regular starter Bradley Barcola proved inspired. The teenager repaid his manager's faith within 12 minutes, intelligently squaring the ball for Achraf Hakimi's opener when most players would have shot. Desire's clinical finishing soon followed as he netted twice to seal victory before departing to thunderous applause from the PSG supporters after 67 minutes of sustained brilliance. Doue's ascension has been swift yet measured. After catching French eyes during Les Bleus' Olympic silver medal run last summer, he made the switch from Rennes to PSG, where he initially waited patiently for opportunities. Desire showed his composure when converting the decisive penalty in the shootout against Liverpool in the last 16 but Saturday's performance elevated him from hot prospect to phenomenon. Bruno Genesio, his former coach at Rennes, offered reassurance for those fearing success might change the young star. "Away from the pitch he's a dream: easy, calm, with a streak of leadership while still asking for advice. He's both care-free and conscientious in his work," he said. As Doue joins up with France for next week's Nations League Finals, the irony is inescapable — at 20 he will arrive with a Champions League winner's medal that his international teammate Kylian Mbappe left PSG pursuing elsewhere at Real Madrid. In a club that was deliberately rebuilt without superstars, PSG may have just found one after a night when Doue eclipsed the team's Ballon d'Or candidate Ousmane Dembele. - Reuters
New York Times
2 days ago
- Politics
- New York Times
Inside Paris chaos: Violence and disorder prove familiar footnote to historic game
Desire Doue's deflected shot had barely had time to nestle in the net before the first firework broke across the sky in the eastern Paris suburb of Montreuil. Here, as across the French capital, fans piled into bars and cafes, squeezed themselves onto beer-garden benches and crowded around televisions in their sitting rooms to witness Paris Saint-Germain's historic 5-0 annihilation of Inter in the Champions League final. Advertisement It was a success that had been a long time coming: five years since PSG's only previous appearance in the final, 14 years since the club's agenda-changing takeover by Qatar Sports Investments, 32 years since hated rivals Marseille had claimed France's first — and hitherto only — men's Champions League success. PSG may be a young football club, having only come into being in 1970, but their supporters, young and old, had been waiting for this moment their entire lives. Expectation had turned into tension in the days preceding the game and the nearer it came, the greater the tension grew. But then, in the blink of an eye, the tension was gone. Doue's goal made it 2-0 after only 20 minutes and when he added PSG's third goal with half an hour remaining, shortly to be followed by a fourth, and then a fifth, the cork came off the bottle, turning the entire city into a riot of booming fireworks, bright flares, honking car horns and deliriously celebrating fans. Very quickly, however, and well before the game in Munich had finished, a darker note crept into the celebrations as disturbing videos began to pop up on social media. Cars burning in the streets. Bus stops smashed. Groups of youths flooding across the Peripherique ring road, bringing traffic to a standstill. A young man violently robbed of his scooter. A cyclist left slumped in the road after being knocked from his Velib rental bicycle by a car. Shockingly graphic images showing the aftermath of a collision between a car and a group of people, this time in the south-eastern city of Grenoble, which left two people seriously injured. On the Avenue des Champs-Elysees, police deployed water cannon and tear gas to disperse supporters who attempted to break through crash barriers in order to reach the Arc de Triomphe at the top of the iconic cobbled street. Running battles between troublemakers and members of the CRS, France's notorious riot police, continued throughout the night. Advertisement 'We arrived on the Champs and we saw the first lines of CRS,' says Mathieu Faurie, who was out watching the celebrations and witnessed some of the disorder first-hand. 'We got to the first shops and some people started smashing the windows in Foot Locker. Behind us, the police started tear-gassing people, so there was a moment of panic and everyone started running towards the top of the street. 'It started to get chaotic everywhere. There were crowds of people surging this way and that. People were trying to leave but the cops weren't letting people down the side streets — you had to walk back down the street towards the Place de la Concorde. 'It took a long time to get out and that killed the atmosphere a bit but we carried on towards Grands Boulevards, where there were loads of people, and it was much better.' At Place de la Bastille, east of the city centre, fans massed in their thousands to celebrate PSG's triumph. But a journalist from the German newspaper BILD reported having had to take shelter at the back of a restaurant after it came under attack from rioters. 'Paris made it 4-0. Again, there was great cheering. But this turned into hatred,' wrote Torsten Rumpf. 'The guests in the restaurant were attacked with fireworks and bottles, chairs and tables were thrown. Windows were broken. Fights broke out. 'I saw children and young women crying and heard loud screams. The air became stuffy with the smoke from the fireworks. After 10 minutes, the security guards brought the situation under control.' The French authorities reported that 491 arrests were made in Paris during the night of the game. Paris prefect of police Laurent Nunez told a press conference that 192 members of the public and nine police officers had been injured. In Paris, a 23-year-old scooter rider was killed after being hit by a car, while in the southwest town of Dax, a 17-year-old boy died after being stabbed in the chest. Investigations into both incidents are under way. Advertisement France's Interior Minister Bruno Retailleau posted on social media that 'barbarians have taken to the streets of Paris'. If it was a tragic footnote to append to a significant football match, it was also familiar. The following afternoon, a helicopter hovers in the overcast sky above the River Seine as PSG supporters exit the Invalides metro station and make their way across the Pont Alexandre III towards the Champs-Elysees for their team's triumphant trophy parade. Ousmane Toure, clad in a PSG home shirt and accompanied by his girlfriend, Angeline, had watched the match along with 45,000 fellow fans on the big screens at the Parc des Princes the night before. 'The atmosphere was incredible,' he says with a smile. 'Truly memorable.' But after setting out across Paris on his scooter after the game to revel in the festivities, he saw scenes that left him with memories that he will not look back on with any kind of fondness at all. 'I went out on the Periph (ring road) and it was a bit of a s*** show, to be honest,' he says. 'There were lots of people — I don't know where they'd come from — on motorbikes, blocking the traffic. They were trying to have a party but it wasn't very cool for the people in the cars. 'You'd go past certain streets and there were scenes of chaos. It was unfortunate because it gives a bad image of football and a bad image of the people of Paris. They should have been scenes of joy and they turned into scenes of horror.' On either side of the bridge, street vendors have opportunistically set up stalls offering refrigerated drinks. Cars speed past honking their horns, some twirling PSG flags and scarves from their windows, while youngsters in small groups nimbly dart and weave their way through the crowds on bicycles. Although the atmosphere is relaxed and festive, the sound of police sirens and the whir of the helicopter's blades serve as reminders that the authorities remain on high alert. Advertisement Eliot Nivet, strolling across the bridge with his friend, Pierre-Francois Kerbrat, says that the scenes that had marred the previous evening's celebrations were simply par for the course. 'It started kicking off during the match, which shows it can't have been connected to real supporters,' he says. 'We went to the Champs after and I was there from 11 o'clock until two in the morning. There were fires, like there always are; bikes that were set on fire but nothing out of the ordinary. 'Then the police did their job. There was a fair amount of tear gas. There were just loads and loads of people in every street. There was so much fervour and it's difficult to contain. We're not worried about today.' Arriving on the Right Bank of the Seine on Sunday, police have blocked off Avenue Winston Churchill, which leads straight to the Champs-Elysees. Three dark-grey police vans are parked across the street. Beside one of them, a black-clad police officer eyes the small crowd that has formed beside the crash barriers and mutters something into his walkie-talkie. The supporters there seem more concerned about missing the parade than inadvertently wandering into a riot. There were further skirmishes between supporters and riot police shortly before the trophy procession, as reported by L'Equipe. The clashes continued during Sunday evening, with Reuters reporting that police deployed tear gas when dozens of ticketless fans sought to enter the security perimeter, and again after supporters threw fireworks at police as the stadium emptied out. It was something of an achievement that it was even allowed to take place at all. Mindful of the scenes of serious disorder that had marred a previous PSG trophy parade in 2013 at the Place du Trocadero, which overlooks the Eiffel Tower, Paris authorities were initially minded to reject the club's request before being persuaded into performing a U-turn. Advertisement To cite a more recent example, Liverpool supporters will not need reminding of the carnage that took place before and after the 2022 Champions League final at the Stade de France, where fans were kettled and tear-gassed by police prior to the game, and then picked off by opportunistic muggers as they left the stadium afterwards. Patrick Mignon, a sports sociologist and author, says that eruptions of violence around sporting events in Paris reflect the underlying mistrust that exists between the police and disaffected young people from the city's disadvantaged suburbs. 'When you get events like this, which bring masses of people into the streets, they're an opportunity for people to display the tensions that exist within French society and the phenomenon of political polarisation,' he says. 'The conflict between young people from working-class neighbourhoods and the police is an old story. We also had riots here in 2022 and 2005. Paris is the place where all the tensions within French society are focused. 'We also know that any event that brings lots of people into the streets for a party also attracts young people who see these events as opportunities for all kinds of criminal activity: looting shops, pickpocketing, seeking confrontations with other young people or provoking the police.' Even at the most glorious moments in France's footballing history, tragedy has seldom been far away. After the great Saint-Etienne squad of the mid-1970s returned from beating Dutch side PSV in the European Cup semi-finals in 1976, one of the fans who rushed onto the runway at Boutheon airport to greet them was killed by the plane's propellers. When crowds flocked to the Champs-Elysees to celebrate France's victory over Brazil in the 1998 World Cup final, a panicked driver drove her car into a crowd at the Arc de Triomphe, killing one person and injuring 35. Two men died in different areas of France during the celebrations that followed Les Bleus' triumph at the 2018 World Cup, which also prompted scenes of violent disorder on the Champs-Elysees. Advertisement Of course, excessive celebration, enormous crowds of people and alcohol have proven to be a deadly combination after all manner of sporting events across the world. But as they sweep away the broken glass and patch up the wounded in Paris, there is no shrugging off a troubling sense of deja vu. (Header photo:)
