The 2025 Champions League Final between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan kicks off at 20:00 on Saturday evening at the Allianz Arena in Munich Germany.
PSG are 57/100 favourites to lift the trophy for the first time in the club’s history, but indefatigable Inter have every right to feel aggrieved by their underdog status. Simone Inzaghi’s side are expected to find a way to overcome it.
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The Nerazzurri retain a strong core from the 2023 UCL Final side
Amidst the hectic pace of change in modern elite football it’s easy enough to forget that it’s only two years since Inter narrowly lost the 2022/23 Champions League Final to Manchester City.
Matteo Darmian, Francesco Acerbi, Alessandro Bastoni, Denzel Dumfries, Nicolo Barella, Hakan Calhanoglu, Federico Dimarco and Lautaro Martinez all started that 1-0 loss and remain in Inzaghi’s squad this season.
That’s a huge amount of experience and a major advantage over the youthful PSG side that have seriously come to the boil as this season’s Champions League has progressed.
Of the players Les Parisiens’ boss Luis Enrique is likely to call upon, only three have previously contested a UCL showpiece.
Marquinhos and Presnel Kimpembe remain from the French side’s 2019/20 losing finalists, while Lucas Hernandez had to settle for runner up as an Atletico Madrid player in 2017/18. Of the trio only Marquinhos is likely to start in Munich.
Beating Inter in the Champions League is a feat rarely achieved
PSG are 11/10 favourites to win the match in normal time but that has to be unlikely given beating the Italians in Europe has been all but impossible in recent seasons.
Since losing the 2022/23 decider to City Inter have lost just two of 22 games in Europe’s elite club competition. Any witness to the two-legged victories over Bayern Munich and particularly Barcelona in this year’s competition can testify to their sheer indefatigability.
The Parc des Princes outfit haven’t displayed quite the same levels of resistance, losing five times in this year’s Champions League alone, including against Liverpool and Aston Villa in two of the last three knockout rounds.
PSG’s big scalps in this year’s competition have all been English
As brilliant as the Parisians have been at times in the latter stages, the fact that all their marquee wins have come at the expense of Premier League opposition cannot go unremarked upon.
The ubiquity of foreign managers in the EPL has improved the tactical element of the domestic game but its representatives remain far less well-drilled than their Italian or Spanish counterparts.
Will PSG find the going as easy against an Inter side capable of stultifying pragmatism and razor-sharp counter attacking football?
Inter having overcome Arsenal, Bayern Munich and a brilliant Barcelona side en route to the final is a major reason for favouring them over Luis Enrique’s side.
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