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Welcome to the Athletic FC podcast. I'm Adam Leventhal. So Paris Saint-Germain have finally

got their hands on the Champions League trophy. The full-time whistle, it's history for Paris

Saint-Germain. And finally, they will get to hold the

trophy that's become their holy grail. So how did they do it? And are they set to dominate European

football? The athletics, Adam Crafton and James Horncastle are with me to start off with.

Liam Tharmer Tactics writer is coming up a little bit later on.

So Paris-Anjima beat into 5-0, Hakimi, 2 for duet, Kvada Skalia and Mayulu with the goals.

Now, James, you were at the Alianz Arena in Munich. Have you managed to get your

head around exactly what you saw? Yes. I mean, I saw, yeah, this very young PSG team show up and

play to, I think, the peak of their powers, which you can't take for granted in finals,

into also played beneath themselves.

And it was interesting listening to Luis Enrique afterwards because he said a lot of his work

during the week was not tactical, even though he got all of that spot on.

It was managing the emotions of this group of players, many of whom are new to finals.

It's not like when PSG last reached a final in COVID when you had Namar as well, who played in Champions League finals with Louis

Enrique or Mbapé, won a World Cup. It was a relatively new group, and yet they delivered, you know,

what LinkedIn would call high performance. And it was a devastating display to watch, you know, what LinkedIn would call high performance.

And it was a devastating display to watch.

You know, one of the best displays I've seen in person ever.

And also deeply troubling to watch a very, very good inter team completely discombobulated. And what has the reaction been in general in Italy to

Inter's demise? Because I know you said that they underperformed, but it almost verged on them,

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