Champions League final preview | Can Paris Saint-Germain be defeated to the end in the early morning of June 1st?

Qilu Evening News·Qilu One Point reporter Yin Chengjun

Dragon Boat Festival holiday is coming soon. While everyone is eating rice dumplings and watching dragon boat races, don’t forget that there is still a good show waiting for the performance in the European football arena.

At 3 a.m. on June 1, the Champions League final of this season will be held between Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Milan. Paris Saint-Germain has not tasted the taste of the Champions League championship. Inter Milan has not yet won the championship for 15 years. The desire for the championship will inevitably make the two teams burst into amazing combat power, and a battle is about to break out.

This season is the first year of the Champions League adopting a new competition system. In this league-led game, Paris Saint-Germain almost failed to even enter the knockout round.

Paris Saint-Germain ranked 15th in the first stage of the league and had to participate in the play-offs. At that time, no one would have thought that this team would reach the finals in a few months.

Paris Saint-Germain ushered in a transformation in the play-offs. They eliminated Brest 10:0 in two rounds, demonstrating the power of the giants. But in the quarterfinals, meeting with Liverpool instantly caused Paris fans to fall into the ice cellar. After all, this Liverpool team is the strongest in recent years, and Paris Saint-Germain, which is not superior in strength, seems to have no chance of winning.

But the charm of football lies in the fact that there are no absolute winners and no definite losers. Paris Saint-Germain advanced through a thrilling penalty shootout after the two rounds of total score. This is the luckiest game for Paris Saint-Germain this season. Without Donnarumma's two extreme saves, perhaps Liverpool would be the one to enter the finals now.

In this quarter-final, Paris Saint-Germain accumulated enough experience in dealing with Premier League teams, eliminating Aston Villa in the quarter-finals and eliminating Arsenal in the semi-finals. The French Ligue 1 overlord won consecutive Premier League teams and reached the finals. It has to be said to be a miracle.

Inter Milan's promotion is also not vague. In the first stage of the Champions League, they ranked fourth with 6 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss, second only to Liverpool, Barcelona and Arsenal, the three most powerful teams in Europe. In the knockout round, they also defeated Bayern and Barcelona's two league leaders with real guns, and wrote a classic script for the Champions League this season.

The road to promotion is long. In the situation where the game is lost accidentally, the two teams broke through the siege and left Liverpool and Barcelona behind. When the spotlight of the final is about to light up, although Inter Milan and Paris Saint-Germain are not the same, the hardships and efforts are the same, and the tenacity they have been tempered is comparable.