Inter suffered a crushing 5-0 defeat to Gianluigi Donnarumma’s Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League Final, as Achraf Hakimi, Desiré Doué, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Senny Mayulu tore them to shreds.
This was the first ever competitive meeting between these sides, but while it was the Nerazzurri’s second Final in three years, PSG had only ever made it this far once before with defeat in 2020. Benjamin Pavard and Lautaro Martinez shook off injuries to start, while Luis Enrique preferred Desiré Doué to Bradley Barcola with ex-Napoli winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Italy international Gianluigi Donnarumma.
Inter were wearing third kits, but also black armbands following the death of former President Ernesto Pellegrini this morning.
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The French side dominated the early stages and took a deserved lead when Vitinha threaded through for Doué, who rolled across from the left for Achraf Hakimi to sweep in relatively undisturbed from seven yards. He was kept onside by Federico Dimarco, but did not celebrate against his former club, waving an apology to the stands.
Quarter-final goal ✅
Semi-final goal ✅
Final goal ✅Achraf Hakimi gives PSG an early lead in the Champions League final, but refuses to celebrate against his former side Inter ⚽
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When Inter were trying to win a corner, it was scooped back at the by-line by Pacho to instead spark a devastating counter-attack, which culminated in the Doué shot deflected off Dimarco to wrong-foot Yann Sommer at the near post.
19-year-old Desire Doue doubles the lead for PSG 🔥
The French side take a 2-0 lead in the Champions League final in less than 20 minutes! 😱
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It was the first time in this entire Champions League campaign that Inter were two goals behind.
Francesco Acerbi nodded a corner over the bar, with Marcus Thuram heading just wide of the far post from another set play.
Ousmane Dembélé met a Doué cross at the back post and could only steer it onto the woodwork from the tightest of angles.
Deflected Doué and Kvaratskhelia efforts skimmed the upright, with the ex-Napoli striker also turning a free header over from a corner.
Dembélé continued to reap rewards with his high press on Sommer, bending a finish just wide, while Nicolò Barella and Nicola Zalewski had efforts charged down.
There was more bad news for Inter, as Yann Bisseck was only on the field for nine minutes before limping off with a suspected hamstring strain.
While he was still hobbling his way round the pitch, PSG added a third goal with the Dembélé back-heel flick sending Vitinha forward, setting up teenage sensation Doué to finish into the far bottom corner.
It’s Desire Doue’s world and we’re just living in it 🌟
The 19-year-old makes it two goals and an assist in the Champions League final 🔥
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The offside trap failed with a well-timed pass from the centre-circle to send Kvaratskhelia sprinting clear against Alessandro Bastoni, beating Sommer at the near post with a cheeky finish for 4-0.
The icing on the cake 🧁
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia sets the celebrations underway as he makes it 4-0 to PSG 🇫🇷
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Marcus Thuram forced a rare Gianluigi Donnarumma save with his angled drive set up by Barella, but Bradley Barcola should’ve added a fifth when drilling wide of the near post after a dummy sent Acerbi to ground.
It still wasn’t over, as youth team player Senny Mayulu completed a give and go with Barcola to burst down the left and beat Sommer from the tightest of angles for 5-0, the heaviest ever Champions League Final defeat.
Look at the reaction from Senny Mayulu 😅
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PSG 5-0 Inter
Hakimi 12 (P), Doué 20, 63 (P), Kvaratskhelia 73 (P), Mayulu 87 (P)
Player statistic
| Achraf Hakimi (Assist: Désiré Doué) |
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12' | ||
| Désiré Doué (Assist: Ousmane Dembélé) |
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20' |
| 56' |  |
Nicola Zalewski | ||
| Désiré Doué (Assist: Vitinha) |
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63' | ||
| Désiré Doué | |
65' | ||
| 69' | |
Marcus Thuram | ||
| 71' | |
Francesco Acerbi | ||
| Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Assist: Ousmane Dembélé) |
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73' | ||
| Senny Mayulu (Assist: Bradley Barcola) |
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86' | ||
| Achraf Hakimi | |
90' |
Match statistic
When you have washups like Hakan and Acerbi in your starting line up, what did you expect? And Di Marco… another clown.
Which team has the record for the heaviest UCL final loss in history?
Serie a teams will never win CL again
Auguri Gigione. Uno di noi 🔴⚫️
Inter management with loads of work to do in the summer.
Acerbi, DiMarco, Mkhitaryan, Calha, Arnautovic, Correa all have to go. Also need to find a young goalkeeper to replace Sommer.
We need to go with a youth movement.
Finally, Inzaghi must go.
This was absolutely unacceptable and I’m sure Marotta understands this.
Stop being pathetic Football-italia. Why are you removing comments with no insults?
Shame of Serie A
Barella and Dimarco didn’t deserve for national call-up
Uomini contro ragazzi!!! Che vergogna, che imbarazzo!!
The first half performance from Inter was one of the worst I’ve seen, if we are being honest here this game was over at the 12th minute when Hakimi scored.
Compliments to PSG, they lose Mbappe and become a much better *team*. Clearly the best squad in the competition.
This site’s message board is nearly impossible to leave a message on. Which kind of defeats the purpose of a message board.
1 Serie A CL win in 18 seasons. 4 straight final defeats.
Pitiful display from supposedly the strongest team in Seia A. Back to the drawing board……
PSG was the better team heading into this March from a quality perspective. But I’m shocked at how poorly Inter played. Really shocked.
When Inzaghi put on Asllani, it was clear he was going for the record. And he did it with ease.
Serie A. needs to change.
very much like this sites comments section, are we allowed to say anything?
There are 15 comments on this article alone, but we ban insulting comments.
DiMarco was pathetic, the weakest link in already struggling chain.
On the first goal he was nowhere near his side of the box, allowing Hakimi to be totally free in the six-yard box; on the second he inexcusably turned his back fully while standing off Doue about two metres away – the goal would not have happened if he faced the ball as a proper defender should do. After those two goals the game was virtually done.
Having the clearly not fully fit Lautaro for the whole game did not help either.
Why was Frattesi on the bench and not given any minutes, after scoring the winner v Barca in semi-final?