PSG’s dynasty has begun: A youth-powered destruction of Inter in the Champions League final is just the start

Here is a team that is ready to rule Europe. By putting Interzij, Paris Saint-Germain already knew that they were the best in the company. In colors that have been tortured on the large stage by a decade plus of failure, this brilliant group of players knew how this final would end from the start.

Even PSG’s Kick -Ooff, the ball halfway through the right flank, was an act of Swaggering Authority. Take the ball, they told inter. We will have it back as soon as we feel like it.

For Inter was what was long clear for PSG, it took 20 minutes for dawn. At two goals they knew that the game was over. By the 90th they had the greatest defeat in the history of the European cup final that was inflicted to them. It would be easy to paint Federico Dimarco as the autumn man, but he should not be destroyed by questions about what could have happened if he had not played Achraf Hakimi aside or had stood square against the cannon of Desire Done. What would have happened is the same that it happened. Playing at this level, PSG would always win.

Their team was simply too versatile in his excellence for everyone short of Barcelona to match them in 2025. This has never completely felt like a post-superer time for PSG and the highest wage account in sport. Kylian Mbappe may have disappeared, but Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Ousmane Dembele and Achraf Hakimi are and were always talents of world class. This will rightly be framed as a triumph for a Team First Mindset about Star Power, but it should not remain unobtrusive that Luis Enrique has hardly wanted talent.

PSG’s recruitment has always been excellent, because the money that Qatar is willing to invest in this soft power exercise must get. Everything that has changed since the losing of Mbappe, Neymar and Lionel Messi they have not been team building to connect holes behind a different front three. They have Luis Enrique all the rough ingredients he needed.

Not that this has been a management cake walk. A year ago, the suggestion would have seen Ousmane Dembele an urgent Tyro that you laughed from Paris. And yet, with PSG he was two goals early in the second half, which Yann Sommer was bothering in his six -meter box. He led the peloton and the hunt did not stop until inter was historically beaten.

Luis Enrique has drenched this side with a part of the dullness that he mixed in his great talent during his gaming career; That ultra-technical trium virate in the engine room should really be pushed by Premier League Big Beasts much more than it was.

What Luis Enrique has is a side that can do it all: possession of the ownership in midfield, flying across the field on counters where their attackers do not have a permanent place of residence and duels dominate with their excellent back five. The best of all is that they might be years of their collective peak. At an average age of 24 years, 262 days they gave up for more than half a decade to their opponents, who had been massive finalists two years ago. Marquinhos was the last man who stood from the PSG side who lost the final of 2020. In what can only be described as anti-millennial discrimination, he is also the only player of more than 30 Parisians This season. They used four teenagers, not that you would know that Doue is not yet three days 20.

It is hard to believe that there can be a lot of room to grow for a young person who runs through everything with brutality. Some players peak early, but PSG has enough clear young things that they can plan for a few to get even better. That says something when the 22-year-old Nuno Mendes is the best lockdown who remains in the game. At the age of 20, Joao Neves has been one of the best tacklingers in the Champions League, making it remarkable when winning the ball at Volume and with a success rate of more than 50 percent. At the age of 24, Kvaratskhelia is probably in the middle of the age distribution of PSG, but early years away from the spotlights make him a young 24 with just three years of European football at top level. At the time, he has three competition titles and a European cup.

All this youth should have meant one thing. PSG should have been frozen, the more given that Ligue 1 is such a flat track for them. The moment just didn’t come. Take the incident in the 36th minute when, tied up in the nearest Inter, could approach an urgent fall, Nuno Mendes found the ball awkwardly bouncing towards him. A swing of his left shoe and a pass volleyed over the field, making Achraf Hakimi free to drive onto the field.

Just like the Real Madrid team that dominated the Champions League in the years 2010, there is something with the way PSG football plays that the other team freezes. Their way to Munich brought them through Anfield, Villa Park and the Emirates Stadium, who were each hanging around in front of one of their big European nights. At every occasion, PSG stamped the balloon in the beginning.

They did it as effectively as always on the largest stage. The 12 minutes that led to the opener of Hakimi were PSG studies and confirm that Dimarco was indeed the weak link. It was already on the Dawen on Inter, Alessandro Bastoni Rollicking his teammate after Dembele blew past him and shot Sommer. Against Barcelona, ​​Dimarco had succeeded in fading some of those defensive problems by standing high and dragging Lamine Yamal back. Hakimi did not need a helping hand this time out. It was the same experience right to the field for the Italians. Individual fights became routes.

Unlike that Real Madrid side that should serve as their benchmark, PSG has had a pretty robust thing to be the best team in Europe during the business end of the season. The quality has been right over the field from the moment that Kvaratskhelia turned upside down. It will only improve what with the infinite money glitch.

That is no guarantee for repeated triumphs. This was perhaps a completely different final if Barcelona had made it. Arsenal and Liverpool pushed PSG close by before Munich. Great teams rarely repeat themselves in this competition, Luis Enrique knows that like everyone.

However, there is nothing within PSGs that will stop them from now on. This could be the first of many, the fourth French empire. They are now the team to beat.