Inter Milan s Champions League Championship is stable? Legends: Not only Inter Milan, Bayern and Barcelona are better than Paris

At 3 a.m. on June 1, in the 2024-25 Champions League final, Serie A giants Inter Milan and French Ligue 1 overlord Paris Saint-Germain will stage an epic showdown on tradition and change. The outcome of this game not only concerns the ownership of the championship trophy, but also reflects a subtle change in the European football landscape - is it the traditional wealthy family better, or is it the new forces of gold and yuan football rewrite history?

The last time Inter Milan won the Champions League trophy is dated back to the glory of the "triple-champion" in Mourinho's era in 2010. At that time, the Nerazzurri swept Europe with iron-blooded defense and efficient counterattack. Diego Milito's fatal blow is still an epic sung by Meazza Stadium. In the past ten years, Inter Milan experienced a trough of capital change and star loss, until Suning Group took over and gradually completed reconstruction. In the 2022-23 season, young coach Inzaji led the team to return to the Champions League final after 13 years. Although he lost to Manchester City, he showed the dawn of revival.

Inter Milan's promotion path this season is very valuable. In the 1/8 final, he defeated Bayern Munich 3-2 in two rounds. Lautaro's final victory at Allianz Stadium showed the resilience of the team; in the semi-finals, facing Barcelona, ​​the founder of passers-and-control, Inter Milan eliminated the favorites in the championship with patience and tenacity. Statistics show that Inter Milan averaged only 0.6 goals per game in the Champions League this season, with a defensive success rate of up to 87%. The defense line led by 34-year-old Archerby was rated as "Apennines Concrete" by "Kickers".

Xiao Inzaji's tactical philosophy reaches a perfect balance on both offense and defense. In the 352 formation, the midfield iron triangle formed by Barrera Charhanolu Mkhitaryan can not only launch a blitzkrieg through precise long passes, but also rely on regional joint defense to kill the opponent's offensive. The tacit cooperation between the two forwards Lautaro (8 goals in the Champions League) and Toulam (5 goals and 4 assists) allowed the team to create 2.4 excellent opportunities per game in the knockout stage. As the "Milan Sports" said: "This Inter Milan has no superstars, but every gear is tightly matched. "

As the 13th season after the Qatar consortium took over, Paris Saint-Germain finally touched the threshold for the Champions League final again. Since the launch of the "Golden Dollar Football" mode in 2011, Paris has achieved an 11-champ monopoly in Ligue 1, but the Champions League failed repeatedly - the Miracle of the Nou Camp in 2017 was reversed by Barcelona, ​​and he hated Bayern in the 2020 final. Last season, he collapsed and stopped in the semi-finals due to the storm of Mbappe's departure. After Enrique took over this season, the team completed a tactical revolution: abandoning the past model of relying on superstars to play singles, and instead building a three-dimensional offensive system with Dembele as the explosive point.

French winger Dembele was in a state of great success in 2025, contributing 7 goals and 5 assists in the last 10 Champions League games, and his average of 7.3 times of success in Europe is the best. Enrique's pass control system has brought Paris' possession rate to 63% and the passing success rate is 91%. Both of these data have set new highs in the team's history in the Champions League. But there are also hidden dangers - the team has been shot 13.2 per game on the defensive end, and the turning speed of the central defender combination Skriniar and Marquinios have been repeatedly targeted by their opponents.

Inter Milan's legendary Bertti's pre-match analysis has sparked heated discussion: "I don't want to assert that Inter Milan will win at the superstitious perspective, but compared with objective strength, Bayern and Barcelona we eliminated are more threatening than Paris." Behind these remarks, Italian football's confidence in tactical discipline is reflected. The data confirms his point of view: Inter Milan's breakthrough success rate in the Champions League knockout stage this season reached 78% when facing opponents' high-level pressing, while Paris's data was only 62%. In the last round of Serie A before the final, Inter Milan needs to challenge the newly promoted team Como away. Although the initiative to win the championship is no longer in his hands (one point behind Napoli), Inzaghi still faces a difficult choice - whether to rotate the main players to prepare for the Champions League? The lessons of history are still in front of us: in 2002, Real Madrid hid Zidane in the league, but was reversed by Leverkusen in the Champions League final. Berti was worried about this: "Caliari in Sardinia may be able to stop Naples, but we must be ourselves first. "