PSG vs Inter live updates: Champions League final latest score as superb Desire Doue steals the show – The New York Times

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Paris Saint-Germain are leading Inter Milan 4-0 in the Champions League final.
Former Inter player Achraf Hakimi opened the scoring for PSG, who are attempting to win the Champions League for the first time.
Desire Doue’s deflected effort doubled PSG’s lead before the 19-year-old forward scored a second in the second half.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia added a fourth as PSG threatened to run riot in Munich.
86' PSG 5-0 Inter
PSG have their fifth and the goalscorer can hardly believed that he has scored it!
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85' PSG 4-0 Inter
I can't remember a gulf in quality in a Champions League final like this since Barcelona tore Manchester United apart at Wembley in 2011.
Inter have known for more than half of this game that there are well beaten and it is just damage limitation at this stage. The issue, against this PSG team, is that it is seriously hard to limit the damage.
There's no way to keep the ball away from them as, even in the 85th minute, they are still chasing every ball and snapping into every challenge.
Inzaghi and his players will be hoping the referee shows mercy with his stoppage time allocation.
82' PSG 4-0 Inter
That was just plain from Barcola. He must have been licking his lips coming up against a tired backline and he has just properly embarrassed Acerbi.
The cutest of ball rolls sent the Inter defender tumbling head first to the floor and the PSG substitute looked destined to make it 5-0. But he tried to give Sommer the eyes — and did — but rolled his near-post effort into the side netting instead of the bottom corner.
Nearly so good from Barcola.
80' PSG 4-0 Inter
So often, finals are just about winning. Quite rightly. Manchester United in 1999. Liverpool in 2005 and 2019. Nobody cares whether a team lives up to its full potential in a one-off game. Only the moments matter.
PSG have been outstanding, though, and that probably makes this one of the great Champions League final performances. They could have scored six or seven; they have played with such style and craft.
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Watching this, the mind goes back to PSG’s game against Manchester City in January. I was at the Parc des Princes that night and PSG found themselves 2-0 down after 53 minutes, staring at the threat of elimination. In fact, they had scored just three goals in their first five-and-a-half games in this Champions League campaign.
Their response was the best spell of football I’ve seen from any team in any game this season. They overwhelmed City for the rest of that game, winning 4-2, and they really haven’t looked back since. It was a coming-of-age performance. Four months on they look utterly unstoppable.
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It is worth remembering that PSG chasing a treble and a team like Inter chasing a treble are very different things.
The Parisians had their league title wrapped up weeks and months ago and were able to rest star men in their domestic cup final.
Inter, meanwhile, don't have the same riches yet compete in a much more competitive league and the scars of a long season have been opened and had salt poured into them this evening.
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76' PSG 4-0 Inter
No Champions League final has ever been won by more than four goals — PSG have a quarter of an hour to make history.
74' PSG 4-0 Inter
The former Napoli player comes back to sting Inter one more time!
Inter have been awful, but PSG have been exceptional.
Dembele is at the heart of this one again as he fed a perfectly weighted through ball into Kvaratskhelia who, like the roadrunner, burst away from the defence and whipped a left-footed finish inside Sommer's near post.
The celebrations of the PSG players, and Luis Enrique, told you everything — they know they've done enough!
73' PSG 4-0 Inter
Irresistible football from PSG who know that it will be their name going on the famous trophy in half an hour's time!
70' PSG 3-0 Inter
This could get very ugly for Inter — they are still getting picked apart and the PSG attackers are starting to queue up inside their penalty area.
Firstly, Nuno Mendes came within an inch of applying a delicate finish to Hakimi's low centred pass and then the recycled cross dropped for Barcola. Seeing his name in lights, the 22-year-old hammered his right foot through the ball and sent it high and handsome into the stand behind the goal.
That was his chance but, like most of us would have done, he got a little bit excited!
67' PSG 3-0 Inter
Oh Luis Enrique, leave him out there!
Having been shown a yellow card for removing his shirt in celebration of his second goal, Doue has been withdrawn to a huge ovation from those of a PSG persuasion inside the Allianz Arena.
The 19-year-old won't get his hat-trick but he does leave the pitch with two goals and an assist — not bad.
The best illustration of Luis Enrique's embarrassment of attacking riches is that Bradley Barcola is the man replacing tonight's hero.
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65' PSG 3-0 Inter
This is the good stuff from PSG — they have been brilliant and this will now surely be the most famous night in their history.
More slick, fast-paced attacking play as Dembele played a sumptuous backheel into the path of Vitinha. The diminutive PSG midfielder drove forward 15 yards before feeding a through ball into Doue.
He didn't even need a touch to set himself as he just rolled an effort inside Sommer's near post and into the bottom corner.
Fantastic football and PSG will be very worthy winners of this year's Champions League.
63' PSG 3-0 Inter
Wow. Wow. Wow.
This has been Desire Doue's final and he has his second goal!
61' PSG 2-0 Inter
This may well be an element of PSG showing game management, or even showing the effects of a full-blooded, intense first half, but Inter are growing into the game and have looked more of a threat in the last few minutes.
The issue, though, remains their lack of quality in the key areas. Their attacking play has been so poor and Donnarumma — other than a few shaky attempts to come for crosses — hasn't had to do much at all.
58' PSG 2-0 Inter
No sooner had the yellow card gone away, it is back out!
Incensed after seeing Pacho get away without a caution, Inzaghi was very obvious in the way he projected his frustration towards the referee. Kovacs jogged over, retrieved a rather sheepish Inzaghi from his bench and brandished the yellow card.
An indicator that suggests you're not having a great night…
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56' PSG 2-0 Inter
Dimarco has been replaced after a really poor evening and his replacement, Zalewski, has already fallen out with referee Istvan Kovacs.
Having seen his initial shot blocked, the substitute rattled into a challenge on Ruiz that he was never going to win and was shown a yellow card for his troubles.
Not the ideal start for the 23-year-old!
53' PSG 2-0 Inter
Yep, as expected, Inzaghi has gone to his bench for inspiration.
Benjamin Pavard was rushed back to start this evening so his evening is curtailed early, with Yann Bisseck taking his place.
Dimarco's torrid evening has also been cut short, Nicola Zalewski is on for him.
50' PSG 2-0 Inter
A rare moment of indecision between Hakimi and Donnarumma brought Inter a corner and the delivery was a good one.
It dropped in the middle of the box and one or two Inter players appealed for a penalty, as did manager Inzaghi, after seemingly believing the ball had struck the arm of Marquinhos.
But, even in the Champions League, they're never giving that. The replay wasn't particularly conclusive but it certainly wasn't handball.

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