by In the afternoon, where Paris Saint-Germain reached the final of the World Club Championship and she had removed every trophy available for 90 minutes from winning this season, Luis Enrique underlined how far they had come by remembering: “In January, people said that we had no executives and no goals.” Since then they have scored more than 100 points and won their first Champions League with a 5-0 win against Inter in the final. Here they put four past Real Madrid with such a dominant exhibition that he had to deny that they had taken their foot off the gas.
However, the PSG head coach showed that he changed against Chelsea with the final on Sunday. PSG was two goals in 10 minutes and had scored 3-0 before they played for half an hour before Gonçalo Ramos added fourth place in the dying minutes.
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The second half had been played at a reduced pace, and PSG made a series of replacement situations where important players with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Fabián Ruiz, Nuno Mendes, Ousmane Dembélé and Désiré -double. Sometimes it felt like the only thing she was preventing from achieving more was that they didn’t need it and had no desire to continue to tear into their opponents.
“My phone is full of news from Barcelona fans who tells you how big this game was,” said Luis Enrique. “They go 100% for everything this shirt represents, and we know what Real Madrid are, what they were and what they will always be, how great they are. We have not put on the brakes, but of course with the heat, with the final in three days, with cramps and the risk of tiredness, the first, the goal to achieve the goal and not compete.
“This was a goal from the start,” added the PSG head coach. “And now we are only a game of the structure of PSG’s history and won all the trophies in which we took part in this season. It means a lot for our fans for us and it is a pleasure to work in this club. We have scored more than 100 goals and very few. These players are extraordinary.” According to the key, Luis Enrique said: “The insurmountable game of my players and their generosity, the way they give everything in the team.”
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Xabi Alonso insisted that the defeat was “injured”, but that he had learned a lot in the six games he was responsible for Real Madrid at this Club World Championship. “I go here with many certainties and will be different next year,” he said. “There are positive things and we go here as a better team, even if it is difficult to say. This game and this competition told me many things about what we are, what we have to improve, the changes that will exist. These were the last game from 2025-26.”
