Venue: MetLife Stadium
Auto-refreshing reddit comments link
Paris Saint-Germain
Gianluigi Donnarumma, Lucas Beraldo, Marquinhos , Nuno Mendes (Lee Kang-in), Achraf Hakimi, Vitinha , Fabián Ruiz (Warren Zaïre-Emery), João Neves, Ousmane Dembélé (Gonçalo Ramos), Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Bradley Barcola), Désiré Doué (Senny Mayulu).
Subs: Noham Kamara, Arnau Tenas, Matvei Safonov, Ibrahim Mbaye.
____________________________
Real Madrid
Thibaut Courtois, Antonio Rüdiger, Raúl Asencio (Éder Militão), Fran García, Federico Valverde, Kylian Mbappé, Aurélien Tchouaméni, Gonzalo García (Dani Carvajal), Jude Bellingham (Luka Modric), Arda Güler (Lucas Vázquez), Vinícius Júnior (Brahim Díaz).
Subs: Víctor Muñoz, Eduardo Camavinga, Dani Ceballos, Youssef Lekhedim, Rodrygo , Chema Andrés, Jacobo Ramón, Mario Martín, Andriy Lunin.
MATCH EVENTS | via ESPN
6' Goal! Paris Saint Germain 1, Real Madrid 0. Fabián Ruiz (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal. Assisted by Ousmane Dembélé.
9' Goal! Paris Saint Germain 2, Real Madrid 0. Ousmane Dembélé (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner.
24' Goal! Paris Saint Germain 3, Real Madrid 0. Fabián Ruiz (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom right corner. Assisted by Achraf Hakimi.
28' Aurélien Tchouaméni (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
45'+2' João Neves (Paris Saint Germain) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
59' Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Gonçalo Ramos replaces Ousmane Dembélé.
59' Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Bradley Barcola replaces Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.
64' Substitution, Real Madrid. Éder Militão replaces Raúl Asencio.
64' Substitution, Real Madrid. Luka Modric replaces Jude Bellingham.
65' Substitution, Real Madrid. Brahim Díaz replaces Vinícius Júnior.
66' Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Warren Zaïre-Emery replaces Fabián Ruiz.
66' Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Senny Mayulu replaces Désiré Doué.
71' Substitution, Real Madrid. Dani Carvajal replaces Gonzalo García.
73' Dani Carvajal (Real Madrid) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
79' Substitution, Paris Saint Germain. Lee Kang-In replaces Nuno Mendes.
83' Substitution, Real Madrid. Lucas Vázquez replaces Arda Güler.
87' Goal! Paris Saint Germain 4, Real Madrid 0. Gonçalo Ramos (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Bradley Barcola.
Don't see a thread for a match you're watching? Click here to learn how to request a match thread from this bot.
That’s mean.
Alonso out?
After 4 games?
This 343 nonsense getting smoked the moment they meet a good team.
Lmaooo these guys got cooked again. Can’t wait for Barca to do the same this year
So it turns out that Inter Miami did very well against PSG. They matched Real Madrid's performance.
I guess Trent went to the wrong state owned club
Worst real madrid since that al hilal draw
love love love this
I've told Real Madrid fans multiple times here that Ancelotti was an amazing manager and that they were absolutely brain rotten for blaming him for every single bad result. You don't win 2 UCLs in 3 years with "no tactics", and if you ever said that Ancelotti had no tactics, please refrain from ever talking about football for a good 10 years until you acquire the necessary knowledge.
The Mbappe experiment has also been a clear failure. Real went from a successful, title competing club, to having all of the same problems that Mbappe-led PSG had. Turns out that scoring a lot of goals does not mean that you improve or make your team more competitive, because a myriad of other factors influence that.
And at last, it's very clear how much the old CWC format made South American teams look worse. Atlético and Real Madrid just showed everyone how facing the current in-form UCL winner right after their apex can make super-rich clubs with extremely stacked squads look bad.
This is just a crazy take. Do you honestly think that if Madrid didn't sign Mbappe but stayed with Joselu at the main striker, they would have won titles last season?? Or do you think if Perez didn't sign Mbappe, he would have spent that money on good defenders??
It's clear you haven't watched madrid games and are just regurgitating stuff you read online.
FYI the problems with the current squad have nothing to do with Mbappe. Injuries to defenders, failing to replace Kroos and Perez refusing to sign great defenders are the reasons we are struggling.
Mbappe isn’t the main issue here, but he is part of it. Like you said, not replacing Kroos and Perez being an idiot are all parts of it, but Mbappe not tracking back and defending is part of it too. I remember watching a video of Enrique trying to teach Mbappe that he needs to defend as well as attack. Looks like he learned nothing. Add in the giant ego of Vini and Mbappe and Mbappe clearly playing out of position, and you’ve got the current situation.
Absolutely agree with you. Real Madrid would have been world beaters for multiple seasons if they had not hired Mbappe and continued with Ancelotti. Now they have destroyed the team's cohesion, and Xabi Alonso will soon be in a rebuild phase.
I am even more happy that PSG without Mbappe is thrashing Madrid with Mbappe. Their fans are so arrogant, they turned on Ancelotti after one somewhat bad season. Absolutely pathetic entitled clowns.
Xabi Alonso will soon be in a rebuild phase
That’s not going to happen. I think he’d be sacked for even suggesting it. Madrid are not letting go of any of Mbappe, Vini, Bellingham and now Trent. And changing every other player will fix nothing.
The only way he could even potentially make it work without being majorly lopsided is playing vini and mbappe on the left, bellingham basically false 9, ? and Trent on the right wings in possession then out of possession they’d need trent to drop to a back 4 - because Vini is not dropping deep - but then that is lop sided leaving mbappe and vini on the left out of possession.
Everyone knew this would happen. Everyone theorised how will it work. It just doesn’t.
Any Real Madrid fan who was saying Ancelloti out, apologise now. It’s not the coaches fault that Perez is an idiot more obsessed with the biggest attackers and said fuck it, we ball when it came to defenders.
I don't even care about this competition but I'm still so happy Madrid got knocked out. Such an unlikeable club filled with arrogant people.
🤝
+1
Hahahhajah
As I said in the PSG thread, I really enjoyed this.
One thing that I noticed immediately was that Madrid having Militao back on the field made a big difference. Also, Brahim Diaz, I like him. He was a tricky player. I used to think Tchouaméni was good, but he does not impress me.
Other than that, it was a butt whipping.
At least we're not Inter Milan
Yeah, you didn't quite reach the final, did you?
We win our finals at the very least
First you need to reach them, which you haven't done in any of the two international tournaments this year.
And in the local one you did reach, you lost. You're not helping your case.
Well they reached two Spanish finals, got smacked tho
Both of them by Barca lol.
🤣🤣
A funeral for Real Madrid.
Ours might be next.
Have some faith man
Xabi has a big task on hand, but ultimately this was expected. As Enrique said, he had 2 years while Xabi had like a month
Reasonable take
You can blame Asensio and Rudiger for those mistakes but they don't happen without Dembele's intense pressing. He pressed in both and led to goals
Just insane pressing. Mbappe and Vini need to look at videos of Dembele.
If not, he has serious trouble because both can't play together if they won't do the work
Pressing is no excuse for these kind of mistakes at this level, this reminded me of Karius vs Madrid UCL final
Oh dear. No Messi, no Mbappe in the final, how would the FiFa president take it.
Either Ousmane Dembele or Vitinha will win the Ballon d’Or. Dembele has the most starpower.
Cole Palmer is an absolute star as well. I think they’re fine.
They still have a couple of weeks to squeeze in another tournament before the new season begins.
But there's Mr Ballon d'Or so it's ok
They should use Madueke to advertise it. (Arsenal, do you see this??)
Buying CLUB WC Final scorer after buying CL Final scorer from us.
What they say fuck me for?
We're gonna sub him in 90+4 to show Arteta he can perform in big knockout matches
😂
Maybe this is the psg mental harassment Mbappé was clmplaining about hahaha
nice
Feels like a symbolic result.
Contrasting fates this season have one been becoming a less flashy, but expensively assembled team; while the other has gone firmly back into their galactico era with predictable results.
Truly, this season feels like vindication of chemistry and hard work against flashy players and pressure campaigns
Can’t win without Trent
One of the most satisfying hate watches I can remember
Checking in!
Hear! Hear!
Courtois let 4 past him because of Carlo's tactics? Donnarumma > Courtois
Real winning nothing without Carlo.
Best keeper in the world sure concedes a lot of goals
I am happy Real Madrid didn't win. I don't even know who made comments like "Real Madrid will become the first club world cup champion", probably a journalist, not even someone at Real Madrid. Reading those comments just made me hope they lose.
The worst thing is that if they'd won the tournament, they'd have been running "Mbappé, ballon d’or" propaganda for months. Thank God we avoided that
I have to admit I'd prefer a club win that's not owned by a nation state, but at least the other ones have been knocked out of the tournament. I guess a lesser of two evils with hoping Chelsea win.
ancelotti left at the exact right time. if Real doesn't want to spend $$ on some defedners they might struggle against barca and later stages of UCL with this roster, its obvous you realy really need towork around and cant press with roster asis if you even waned to press
We literally just bought Huijsen
They bought Huijsen, but he was red carded in the last match.
I think they are also need good defensive fullbacks. Two of their goals from CB errors and two from a fullback losing it’s man. If they go with trent in there it’s gonna be a disaster. Someone like nuno mendes
Keep talking that shit and they’re going to run down Timber’s contract. You’ll only have 7 fullbacks, and where will you be then?
Hahaha there are many options outside of arsenal. Why not get someone like dumfries? He is extremely good at both phases of game, just a bit under the radar for madrid I guess.
I honestly don't understand why EVERYONE (especially my club) isn't all over Dumfries if that release clause is real. Biggest steal of the season.
Yeah, like Nuno Mendes. Easy.
Just replace an actual homunculus with the best left back in world football. Why doesn’t every team do it?
I mean it’s real madrid, if they actually want someone like they did with mbappe, they will get them. But they don’t really care about low-hype signings.
Anyone watching El Chiringuito? This show is so ridiculous after a loss, it’s great.
I hate to admit it but I've been watching for 10 years,
That's every time barça or Madrid get blown out. A whole circus, I don't like that its our turn but that's how the sport is. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose, and sometimes you get throughly embarrassed by a much better team.
Every match PSG plays makes our penalty shootout loss look better lol
Yup that was the only close game psg had this season 😂🤌🏻
There is also Aston Villa that had a really powerful session that made me uneasy
Xabi out the door by Christmas.
Heitinga’s assistant
I guess he sent a message to his players and board. « This is what happens if we play with I don’t need to defend Mbappé »
If he wanted to send a message he picked the right game to do it. Some of us fans knew this was a long shot, but as soon as the lineup was released, I knew we were cooked. Vini and Mbappe just don't have any chemistry, and both are LW. We might get away with playing them both against teams like Dortmund, but not against this psg team.
As much as I enjoy this World Cup, it is not that important. During the UCL knockouts the bar in my street was full with people cheering. Tonight there were only few people enjoying their food. It was the right time for Xabi to send a message and focus on the next season. Madrid was pleasant to watch without Mbappé. As soon as he came back and be on the field they took 6 goals.
Xabi*
Sorry
Neither of them looked like they gave a single fuck about playing. The whole team looked lazy and uncoordinated
They're cooked. They have way too many players that won't run, press, or track back. Your team is the meta right now and Real are more like PSG 2 years ago.
PSG 2 years ago also had Mbappe. No coincidence.
Yep, having 2 guys that walk and barely press up front is a recipe for disaster in modern football. Psg just pinged the ball in the middle with zero worries lol
For this game, clown defensive errors for the first 2 goals which led to Vini and Mbappe being pedestrian clowns the rest of the game up top which made Garcia look like a clown and it bled through the entire team. No goals. Maybe it wasn't Carlo.
OK, now we're doomed
Chelsea 1-0 PSG. 90+3 goal.
Inject this shit straight into my veins
Okay, there's no need to be unrealistic. You gotta stick to the fundamentals of football.
2-0 Chelsea. Joao Pedro early goal then a cheeky Delap header in injury time.
You're just hoping and praying Chelsea don't win it by trying to jinx it. Lol
Someone has to
I’m not worried, I feel like this this is exactly the type of momentum we usually do well against and win hahahaha but if we lose oh well because who expected us to make the finals anyways
I felt the same way (surely, you'll perform better than us)
Madrids year is just all about winning:
Barca knocked out by Inter ✅ Mbappé pichichi ✅ PSG beat Inter Miami (Messi’s team) ✅ and now Barca Player 0 chance to win Balon D’or ✅
Instagram comments leaking into reddit
Oh yeah Reddit, the high brow bastion of online culture. Sorry to soil a place you hold in such regard.
Real Madrid has same outcome as Inter Miami?
wtf are they feeding this team
Videos about how to coordinate a press as a team
oil
Nothing then normal. Probably they play like an actual team instead of an individual sport
trophies
Madrid was pathetic 😭 I didn't think they could embarrass themselves much worse after backing that PEDO!! But here we are 😂
It's also laughable that people think Bellingham and Valverde are good defensively just because they run around a lot and go into a lot of challenges. Also, how many times has the best mid in the world Valverde got his ass handed to him this season alone 🤔
Their defence is trash,' their midfield lacks certain profiles,' and their attack lacks a striker. Madrid is a very flawed team
What bro are you serious rn
Talking shit about Valverde and bellingham allows me to present you with the dumbest fuck award.
Mbappe and Vini also refuse to track back, it's no coincidence that PSG has become the best team in the world since Mbappe left
They didn’t even make real attempts to challenge defenders
I didn't think they could embarrass themselves much worse after backing that PEDO!!
Huh?
Ascencio is a pedo
Lmaoo bro me when I read this like wym!
What an ass whooping.
This team does not work with 3 attackers specially when they’re all lazy and provide zero in defense. They lose more balls than anyone else yet they pressure the least.
Vini needs to accept the secondary or playmaking role. This whole I want to do everything by myself shit had led him back to being the player from the pandemic era.
Another technical cb needs to come, we have two defenders that are mistake prone because of how awful they are with the ball in their feet and rely only on their aggressiveness to win balls.
The lack of commitment from several players in the team has been a constant thing for years. they know that they won’t be dropped from the starting line up because of their price tags.
Vinicius has to join Rodrygo and jump ship, tbh. It's the Mbappe show and they should let Real Madrid have the star that they wanted so badly to lead the ship the way he led PSG.
Xabi has his work cut out for him. Obvious issues to address and I'm interested to see if he actually shows he's trying to fix them.
Perez is waiting for defenders on free. You are punting the season away if he doesn’t buy anyone.
Xavi can stick with his 3 5 2 that worked with leverkusen
How fucking difficult it is to write correct names?
He needs another cb to do that and those cbs need to be compossed and very good with positioning. Rudiger, Militao and acensio are the opposite of that. Let say they break the line when attacking and one steps up to be cdm none of the three can do that they’re too limited with the ball on their feet.
Madrid paid all that money to us and didn’t even play Trent ?
They called it a muscle injury
They wanted to keep the scoreline respectable
if Trent would have played the score may have been 8-0 lmao
A knock or something. He played previous games.
As much as i hate p$g and their sports washing at least someone humbled Vardrid. Lose Lose 😂
The best part about this game was that one of PSG and RM had to lose.
The worst part was one had to win. Fair play to their sports washing, they made the best team in the world
Peak Instagram comment.
Sounders are officially better than Real Madrid LETS FUCKING GOOOOOO
PSG now beat both Madrid teams 4-0!
Paris 8 - 0 Madrid
Chelsea and psg, 2 small clubs fighting for 170 million. So humbling.
How exactly are they small clubs?
He's been sarcastic obviously duh
I expected a blockbuster semi-final and only got to see five minutes of that 😔
At least I leveled up in Baldur's Gate after the first half though
The 2 early goals killed the whole spectacle, Madrid had to be very careful not to concede more, and PSG didn't really shift gears. They were pretty much in control, just cruising.
At the end I still feel Madrid would've lost either way, but I feel cheated of a much better match.
I spilled oil and killed a lot of clankers. Way bette use of my time
seriously, I knew that the game was over after 8 mins and it pretty much ruined my afternoon
ah well I did some laundry and cleaned up a bit, the wife will be happy at least
Score flattered madrid. Psg were having fun out there
At least Militão came back as if he has been playing regularly. I think people might have forgotten how good he is and what an upgrade he’ll be on any other CB Real has currently.
Wow PSG really toyed with Real Madrid
Wearing my jersey on the way home and fighting for dear life against a barrage of shit talk
It's warm enough, you could've wiped your ass sweat, binned it and gone topless.
مش الريال الى يخسر 5 - 0
Ancelotti out
Clown fanbase
Man, I love this CWC. Who would've ever thought that, in a tournament where they've faced Atlético Madrid, Real Madrid and Bayern, BOTAFOGO would be the one team to beat PSG?
I mean, Nice beat PSG as well. It's football, it happens. Botafogo can go back to being destroyed by the likes of Bragantino, Mirassol and Juventude now.
It happens all the time in tournaments. Real Madrid, who won the Champions League in 2022, lost to Sheriff Tiraspol, a tiny Moldovan club, at the Bernabeu that year in the group stage. Next to Tiraspol, Botafogo is a big budget and big club.
its kinda common, Argentina lose to Arabia in the last world cup. Spain lose to Switzerland in 2010 too.
I know. It's part of why I love football <3
(except when it's my team losing to a theoretically weaker one, of course. The less is said about the 2004 Brazil Cup final, the better -.- )
What Luis Enrique did to PSG after that Mbappe quote will go down as one of the best calls in the history of the sport.
What quote?
thanks!
Which quote?
Suddenly I don’t feel that bad about the 1–1 pens knockout anymore
Alisson saved your ass from a similar result. It wasn't close.
Thats why Donnarumma should win Ballon D'or
PSG escalated to a whole different level so fast, I remember they weren't even favorites against Liverpool and didn't even qualify directly to the round of 16 because their league phase performance wasn't that good. Even Arsenal beat them in that phase.
And all it took was an world-class performance by Alisson to even keep you on the round for the home leg
I just got the chills thinking of that Alisson performance again. I forgot how shocked I was for a day after
true it was an incredible performance from Alisson and PSG was clearly the better team. i’m still happy for the season as winning the prem feels good😉
we lost on pens, PSG are not the better team, they wouldn't want to play LFC again trust me
no. 1 and no. 2 teams in the world atm for sure, PSG is more in form imo so i’d rank them first but next season LFC with the new signings will be exciting to watch
Try winning one unbeaten, feels even better.
Idk you lot should just try to win one in general…
Hold on there buddie, you’re talking to the current Emirates cup winners
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha i’m sure it felt really good back then if 21 years later that’s the only thing you can brag about. 2004 lmao, does it not feel even slightly embarrassing bringing that up😂
“WHAAAAAAAAAT ABBOUUUUUUUT MEEEEEE?!?!?”
Lol Arsenal fans with the tinpot ego
Early final imo, unfortunate it had to happen so early
I mean, it wasn't as close as people treat is as being. Alisson bailed Liverpool hard.
A terrible final awaits me. But I kinda like Chelsea so here’s hoping they win it. I hated how P$G and City won their UCLs…
Why, Inter? WHY?!?!?!
We can not compete with that level of oil
Your UCL losses pained me dearly. Just a huge and magnificent club doesn’t deserve such losses
They deserved it I can’t be mad at them for being well off but yea the score line and the way our team played was unacceptable
You realise Chelsea are the original City and PSG!?
How did they win it? With good football?
I just hate City and P$G. Simple as that
Chelsea are worse than both
Thank god Chelsea didn’t also use oil money to win titles
I kinda like Chelsea. Liked their crest since the early 2000s so yeah. I am biased there
So your football moral compass stops at a kinda cool crest. A true expert.
Football moral compass. LMAO. What's next? Gonna ask everyone to carry their cross too? Clown
Thanks
They're exactly the same as PSG and City lol
Rarely see as much criticism anymore towards Chelsea as towards City or PSG. In 10-20 years we'll forget these teams stay at the top, they're just gonna be normal big teams. Kind of the story for most big teams.
This also means every time someone starts a “La Liga is the best league” debate all I need to do is remind them which countries the 2 CWC finalists are from
The best and most in form La Liga team wasn’t at the tournament.
You would’ve had it the same as Real
We beat Madrid in every clásico…some by 5-2 and 4-0…
Mbappé on our previous season form scored a hattrick against them lol
If only you could have won tho...
True, if only Betis had qualified
There sum is more lethal than the pieces.