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Sid Lowe was astatine nan MetLife this afternoon. His study has landed, and present it is. Congratulations to PSG, commiserations to Real Madrid, and acknowledgment to you, beloved reader, for joining america connected nan MBM.
Xabi Alonso, saddened but stoic, speaks to DAZN. “At nan opening nan setback was beardown capable … 2-0 down we knew it would beryllium really reliable … astatine nan infinitesimal nan emotion is not nan champion … we will person to effort to study from coming … arsenic a squad [PSG] person been building for years but we are conscionable starting … it will return clip … we request a due break … this is not nan opening of adjacent twelvemonth … this is conscionable nan extremity of this play … aft conscionable 3 weeks present we tin return positives from this play … but we return little from coming … since February [PSG] person been successful a apical infinitesimal … they are 1 of nan champion teams successful nan world … let’s spot what happens successful nan last … they person shown a very bully level and we want to beryllium location … it is simply a bitter extremity [for Luka Modric] but he has been a fable of nan nine and of shot … he is simply a awesome feline … he is going to beryllium remembered everlastingly successful Madrid.”
PSG’s superb leader Luis Enrique talks to DAZN. “I consciousness awesome … it is ever difficult to play against Real Madrid … we started very bully … we are happy pinch nan capacity … particularly successful these conditions … it is excessively overmuch power for maine … some teams did awesome … we are successful a typical infinitesimal and we person to triumph … it is nan first lucifer successful this World Cup that we could usage Ousmane [Dembélé] arsenic a normal subordinate because he was injured pinch nan nationalist squad and we tried to return attraction of him … I deliberation he’s nan champion subordinate this play by a agelong measurement … he deserves to triumph everything because he gave everything to nan squad … we are going to effort [to triumph nan Club World Cup] against a bully squad for illustration Chelsea … now it’s clip for america to hole and retrieve … we are almost location … we want to make history pinch our club.”
Fabián Ruiz talks to DAZN. “It was an unthinkable crippled … a cleanable capacity … particularly fixed nan power … superb … against a really apical squad successful Real Madrid … we’re really happy we’ve gone done … happy for nan goals of people … conscionable happy for nan triumph … we request to observe … it will beryllium difficult against Chelsea … we cognize they are a bully squad and doing good … hopefully we tin triumph nan last and decorativeness nan play successful nan champion measurement possible.”
But what astir PSG? And who tin extremity them?! That was arguably an moreover amended capacity than nan 1 which eviscerated Internazionale successful nan Champions League final. They were brilliant, they were beautiful, they were brutal. Two-goal Fabián Ruiz has been named Superior Superstar of nan Semi, aliases nevertheless Fifa are styling it these days, but it could person been beautiful overmuch immoderate of them. Ousmane Dembélé was outstanding again, scoring his 35th extremity of nan season, while Achraf Hakimi proved a changeless menace connected nan overlap down nan right. In summary: bully luck to Chelsea connected Sunday, because connected this evidence, nan European champions look unstoppable, a first world title a very existent possibility.
Real person mislaid nan caput aft erstwhile difficult defeats this season, but not truthful this time. They judge this painful, borderline humiliating nonaccomplishment by congratulating their opponents warmly. Handshakes each round. Luka Modric, his Real Madrid profession ending tonight, is rewarded pinch a smacker from his leader Xabi Alonso … who will beryllium nether a spot of unit now, 1 period and 9 days into his caller job. Yes, that’s beyond ridiculous, but Real Madrid expect to triumph everything they enter, and that’s conscionable really it’ll be. They’ve surely sewage a batch of activity to do if they’re to get nan amended of Barcelona successful La Liga adjacent season; nan spread betwixt them and PSG is moreover bigger. Job to do.
FULL TIME: PSG 4-0 Real Madrid
PSG will meet Chelsea successful nan last connected Sunday! They’ve sewage location by school Real Madrid a due lesson. It was four; it could person been galore more.
90 min: There won’t beryllium immoderate other time. Well, there’s 3 seconds of it, earlier nan referee puts Madrid retired of their misery.
89 min: That was specified a beautiful goal, Barcola and Ramos taking turns to bamboozle nan Real defence pinch their saccharine skills. Does 4 suffice arsenic a rout? Perhaps not successful strict numerical terms. But this is simply a due thrashing.
GOAL! PSG 4-0 Real Madrid (Ramos 88)
Hakimi romps down nan right. He crosses low. Barcola can’t get a changeable away, level pinch nan left-hand post, but keeps clasp of nan ball, spinning distant from Militao, earlier rolling backmost infield for Ramos. He spins elegantly too, seeing disconnected Tchouameni, and pings into nan bottommost left. Then he goes disconnected to celebrate, sitting down cross-legged to play video games, a rubbing tribute to his pal Diogo Jota.
87 min: Militao steals nan shot disconnected Neves and strides towards nan box. He slams a changeable consecutive astatine Donnarumma. Then PSG break upfield, and …
85 min: Modric’s transportation is dangerous, and Militao finds a pouch of space, six yards retired and level pinch nan adjacent post. He slams his header wide right. A decent chance to works a mini seed of uncertainty successful Parisian noggins.
84 min: Valverde advances down nan right, released by a tiny drag-back and flick from Diaz. He wins a corner. Modric to take.
83 min: Vazquez comes connected for Guler. Both teams person now utilized up each of their subbing allowance.
82 min: PSG hog nan ball. Real look broken. No effort to get that shot back.
80 min: Nothing comes of nan corner.
79 min: Mayulu wedges a walk down nan correct to merchandise Hakimi into acres. Hakimi looks for Ramos successful nan middle, but is denied by Militao’s extended leg, which diverts retired for a corner. Before it tin beryllium taken, Lee comes connected for Mendes.
78 min: The crippled restarts.
76 min: Time for a drinks break. “We boiled up snowfall and crystal to make basking beardown Bovril … really that beefy sensation shouted us.”
75 min: Valverde creams a changeable towards nan apical right. It’s heading in, but bravely blocked by Beraldo. That was really travelling. The ball’s deflected retired for a corner, which is worked backmost to Fran Garcia, whose thrust done a crowded container bounces harmlessly done to Donnarumma.
73 min: Carvajal, not yet up to velocity aft his long, agelong break, picks up a speedy booking for accidentally high-kicking Barcola.
72 min: Hakimi slips Ramos into nan Real container down nan inside-right channel. Ramos shanks a changeable wide nether unit from Militao. PSG hunting for this 4th goal.
71 min: To appreciative cheers, Carvajal returns to nan Real Madrid squad for nan first clip since suffering an ACL wounded past October. He replaces Gonzalo Garcia.
70 min: Barcola chases a agelong walk down nan near flank and breaks into nan box. But earlier he tin shoot, he’s correctly flagged for handling mid-dribble. PSG abruptly showing successful onslaught again, though.
69 min: … Ramos has options to merchandise a team-mate either side, but blooters a changeable into nan nearest defender instead. A immense chance to put paid to Real’s admittedly small-scale revival erstwhile and for all.
68 min: Real are enjoying their champion spell of nan game. They property PSG backmost and triumph a mates of corners. The 2nd 1 leads to immoderate caput tennis, from which PSG break upfield, and …
66 min: PSG respond by burning done different 2 subs, removing Ruiz and Doue and sending connected Zaire-Emery and Mayulu.
65 min: Real make a triple change, replacing Bellingham, Vinicius Jr and Asencio pinch Militao, Modric and Diaz.
64 min: Bellingham barrels down nan middle, abstraction opening up successful beforehand of him. He shoots. Beraldo blocks. Mbappe wanted nan pass, and isn’t happy. But Real recycle possession and triumph a area retired connected he left. The group portion leads to Mbappe swinging successful from nan left. Donnarumma punches clear. This is amended from Real, moreover if nan barroom is low.
62 min: Guler goes complete successful nan PSG container erstwhile trying – and failing – to shield nan shot from Mendes. It’s a bully tackle and a hopeless claim. Play is waved on.
61 min: So far, PSG person made 467 passes to Real Madrid’s 168. You person to wonderment really often Real person been connected nan extremity of a lop-sided stat for illustration that.
59 min: Real load nan container but discarded nan free kick.
58 min: Vinicius Jr tries to get thing going for Real, first shooting from a tight perspective connected nan near – blocked – past drafting a free footwear from Mendes down nan aforesaid flank. Before nan free footwear tin beryllium taken, Kvaratskhelia and Dembele are replaced by Ramos and Barcola.
57 min: Kvaratskhelia cuts successful from nan near and curls a changeable wide of nan right-hand post. Then Hakimi probes down nan correct but his debased transverse is snaffled by Courtois. If there’s to beryllium a 4th extremity successful this game, correct now it’s PSG who look much apt to notch it.
56 min: Bellingham looks for Gonzalo Garcia down nan correct but falls backwards while making nan pass, and nan shot is sprayed into nan stand. One extremity could feasibly change nan temper and alteration nan momentum, but Real don’t look for illustration scoring it.
55 min: The gait drops. PSG changeable nan shot hither and yon. Real, their tone broken, don’t do overmuch successful nan measurement of chasing down.
53 min: Valverde rolls a walk crossed nan look of nan PSG container from nan right. Mbappe meets it first time, lashing wildly complete nan bar. You’d springiness rather a fewer shiny centimes for his thoughts correct now.
52 min: Tchouameni lets nan shot tally nether his ft and astir lets Doue done connected goal. He’s fortunate Doue isn’t connected nan beforehand foot. This has been an utterly shambolic protect show by Real.
51 min: Tchouameni clips Neves connected nan ankle. He’s already been booked, truthful wants to watch himself. Just a foul. In fact, he’s injured himself while challenging truthful requires immoderate treatment. After a little stoppage, he’s bully to continue.
50 min: To beryllium fair, nan semi-automated replay shows Dembele was reasonably intelligibly off. The Real defence moving successful tandem for once.
48 min: Kvaratskhelia sends Dembele free down nan left. Dembele passes infield for Doue, who enters nan container and slots into nan bottommost left. Fortunately for Real, location was an offside successful nan build-up. It must person been close, because Dembele looked connected to nan naked eye.
47 min: Valverde tries to get thing going for Real down nan right, but loses control, and Kvaratskhelia steals distant pinch nan ball. His crossfield walk astir releases Doue down nan right. Not this time. But past …
PSG get nan 2nd half started. No half-time changes.
Half-time entertainment. Given what’s conscionable happened, it’s worthy reference this again.
HALF TIME: PSG 3-0 Real Madrid
… but there’s nary clip for nan area to beryllium taken. Sweet, blessed alleviation for Real, who person been comprehensively worked complete by this sensational PSG side. It’s nary exaggeration to propose it could easy beryllium 6-0. It wouldn’t flatter PSG either. They’ve sewage 1 ft and 4 toes successful nan final.
45 min +4: Dembele strides down nan near and, almost connected nan touchline, attempts to lob nan out-of-position Courtois. His effort is dropping into nan top-left corner, and Courtois is forced to extremity complete nan bar. He whacks his hep connected nan upright successful making nan save.
45 min +3: Guler tries to merchandise Mbappe into nan container pinch a walk down nan correct channel, but Donnarumma is quickly disconnected his statement to smother.
45 min +2: The corner’s worked to nan different flank. Mendes smacks a thrust goalwards from a tight perspective connected nan left. Courtois parries. Real effort to counter, but Neves doesn’t let Guler to break upfield. He’s booked for his forbidden tug.
45 min +1: Hakimi threatens to burst down nan right, forcing Fran Garcia to toe-poke nan shot retired for a corner. Garcia hangs his head. He’s had small support.
45 min: There will beryllium 3 further first-half minutes.
44 min: PSG proceed to changeable nan shot astir imperiously. “If Enzo Maresca is watching this, he mightiness want to deliberation astir self-deporting his Chelsea squad immoderate clip earlier adjacent Sunday,” suggests Justin Kavanagh.
42 min: Courtois comes retired of his container and slices a clearance consecutive to Doue. The keeper breathes again arsenic Doue fails to power nan ball. Had he managed to do so, he’d person dispatched it into nan quiet nett from 40 yards.
40 min: Again, it should beryllium four. Kvaratskhelia glides into nan Real container from nan left, repositions nan shot pinch his studs to confuse Asencio, and drags a debased thrust wide of nan right-hand post. Courtois was rooted to nan spot, truthful had that been connected target … well.
39 min: Mbappe goes complete successful nan PSG box, claiming a penalty, but nan referee is rather correctly not interested, Neves having whipped nan shot cleanly disconnected his toe. Just astir everyone progressive pinch Real, players, unit and coach, are frowning existent difficult correct now.
37 min: Kvaratskhelia steals nan shot disconnected Mbappe, past instantly nutmegs Guler earlier racing disconnected down nan left. Real are ray astatine nan back, and Kvaratskhelia has options. But Bellingham races backmost to execute a perfectly judged last-ditch tackle from behind. Four-nil looked connected nan cards there.
36 min: PSG changeable it astir nan backmost successful relaxed style. Then nan ball’s pinged down nan correct for Doue. Courtois is quickly up to nan separator of his container to claim. Just arsenic well.
34 min: Play restarts. “It feels for illustration we’re astatine nan constituent pinch Ousmane Dembélé that nan Ballon d’Or ballot feels for illustration a formality,” observes Kári Tulinius. “Even past autumn he seemed much for illustration a nosy subordinate but wasted talent, and now he’s connected nan cusp of being an all-time great. Just springiness him nan gong already.”
33 min: Xabi Alonso is good wrong his authorities to springiness it to his players straight. But he stays calm, issuing tactical proposal successful a measured manner. “Assuming it stays 3-0 astatine half-time,” originates Peter Oh, “he tin rally his troops by invoking Istanbul.” The measurement PSG are piling into Real, that’s rather nan caveat.
32 min: Time for a drinks break. “Good friends, nan roaring occurrence … nan cleanable clip for a basking Dr Pepper! Delicious and truthful easy to prepare. Just power Dr Pepper successful a saucepan until it steams.”
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