PSG crush Inter to win 2025 Champions League under Luis Enrique

Luis Enrique's PSG thrashes Inter in 2025 Champions League final

Can you lift the Champions League without Messi, Neymar, and Mbappé? PSG just answered yes. The Parisian club became European champions after thrashing Inter Milan in a 2025 Champions League final that was resolved much earlier than expected. Predictions varied widely—3-2, 1-3—but the final score left both teams light-years apart. The match was broadcast free-to-air at 21:00.

A champion without its three stars

The most repeated detail is always the same: PSG won without Messi, Neymar, and Mbappé, with Luis Enrique on the bench. This paradox is significant for a project built for years with galactic names, now securing its first continental title with a more collective squad. The reaction of the forward who left for Real Madrid to conquer Europe, watching the final from the stands, provoked many sarcastic comments. Some summarize it in one phrase: signing stars guarantees nothing if the team doesn't play as a team.

Why Inter arrived exhausted to the final

Inter did not show up. Several voices point to Serie A: losing the Italian league in the penultimate round, including a double defeat by the rival, would have been a psychological blow from which the team never recovered. This is compounded by the fatigue of competing simultaneously in the league, cup, and Europe, reserving starters for domestic matches and ending up with nothing. Those close to the Italian side claim they played their worst match of the season at the most important moment. The Italian center-back had a night to forget: he broke the offside trap in the 1-0 and deflected a ball into his own net in the 2-0. Another part of the analysis, however, places Inter among the five best teams in the continent and warns that they will compete for everything again.

Why did a thrashing final seem boring?

Here lies the match's contradiction: there were goals and yawns. Part of the audience complained about a match without emotion, with one team parking the bus and the other resolving things on the counter-attack. The underlying criticism is broader: current football rewards short passing, pressure, and results over individual talent, distancing young viewers. On the other side, PSG's defense of their game is equally sharp: a team winning by a thrashing does not speculate, and those bored expected something else. This is the spectacle we have, this current says. The duel also highlighted a Spanish midfielder considered historically underrated.

The refereeing debate that returns with every elimination

As almost always when a giant thrashes, suspicions arise. South Korea 2002 is recalled as an episode where refereeing altered a tournament, and it is answered that with VAR, such a scenario is now much harder to sustain. The most shared conclusion is common sense: if you score five goals, the referee cannot disallow them. Cross-complaints between fans—some accuse the rival of being helped, others recall past refereeing chapters—remain unsubstantiated. The calendar detail, moreover, confuses those seeking excuses: the champion played their toughest elimination away.

Luis Enrique, the Spaniard who did not celebrate the goal

The Asturian manager received the most repeated praise. He is defined as a strategy genius, capable of extracting performance from a lethal triad and preventing his players from walking the pitch as spectators when they do not have the ball. The curious note came with the first goal: he did not celebrate it, recalling his one-year stint as an Inter player. Beyond the gesture, some recall his physical demands are on another level: at 55, he has accumulated several extreme resistance tests. And the hovering question: would he have achieved the same with a worse squad?

PSG has its first Champions League. The one who left for Madrid to win it watches from the stands. Football, that sport many declare dead every month, continues to need no script to teach lessons in irony.