Paris Saint-Germain are through to the final of the Champions League for the first time after goals by Marquinhos, Angel Di Maria and Juan...
Paris Saint-Germain are through to the final of the Champions League for the first time after goals by Marquinhos, Angel Di Maria and Juan Bernat saw them ease to a 3-0 win over RB Leipzig in a largely one-sided semi-final in Lisbon on Tuesday.
Thomas Tuchel’s team are the competition’s first French finalists since Monaco in 2004.
It was 2-0 at half-time at the Estadio da Luz, as PSG increasingly stamped their authority on the match against the German side. Bernat’s goal came in the 55th minute and snuffed out any hopes Leipzig had of a comeback.
The attacking talent of the PSG shone through on the night as the stars did not appear overcome by the sense of occasion that surrounds a Champions League knockout tie.
After seeming to invent ever more absurd ways to lose in Europe in recent years – the 6-1 loss against Barcelona in 2017 and last year’s defeat by Manchester United in the last 16 stand out – despite all the investment by the club’s Qatari owners, here they lived up to their billing.
“We wanted to make history and we did it,” star of the night, Di Maria told French broadcaster RMC Sport. “If we continue the way we played today, that...
