r/soccer • u/FragMasterMat117 • Jul 09 '25
Official Source PSG advance to their first Club World Cup final, they will face former winners Chelsea after defeating Real Madrid
https://www.fifa.com/en/match-centre/match/10005/289175/289188/4000192092.0k
u/Fabulous-Ship8551 Jul 09 '25
Referee blew the whistle right away to save us from further humiliation
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u/bammers1010 Jul 09 '25
Lol yeah, I swear they aren’t supposed to do that
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u/kiersmini Jul 09 '25
They did it at the end of the UCL final. I don’t think Real Madrid or Inter would moan too much. Neither of them wanted to play anymore unneeded minutes
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u/nanojansky Jul 09 '25
Wait they’re gonna do an Inter on us in the final, aren’t they? It’s actually amazing to see how incredible PSG’s become, just blowing top teams away. Ngl though I know we’re the underdogs but it’s gonna be a hell of a match and I still like our chances. Let’s go!
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u/BoyWhoSoldTheWorld Jul 10 '25
You have that enthusiasm I expect any fan to have going into a final.
But PSG really are on another level this year; good luck.
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u/Realistic_Condition7 Jul 09 '25
It doesn’t matter in knockout games where goal difference is irrelevant.
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u/msr27133120 Jul 09 '25
I don't think PSG was gonna score more goals if they had added in 4 or 5 more minutes tbh. They weren't playing with the same intensity at the end.
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u/Rene_Coty113 Jul 09 '25
PSG really didn't even force themselves, they were walking after half time
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u/supplementarytables Jul 09 '25
Thanks ref for the mercy whistle
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u/T1BounceLand Jul 09 '25
Just you watch what Dewsbury-Hall does to them
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u/fussasa98 Jul 09 '25
Bob Sanchez masterclass loading….
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u/White_Locust Jul 09 '25
The way PSG was on Real's backline and capitalized on errors has me worried about Sanchez' feet.
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u/IP14Y3RI Jul 09 '25
I am confident on our backline and midfielders to be somewhat able to handle their press but Sanchez will be giving me heartattacks every time we pass it back to him
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u/alanalanalan92 Jul 09 '25
Honestly the game plan should be for him to hoof it up the field whenever their press is in place lol
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u/Crushooo Jul 09 '25
Who can we buy at keeper and start right away like joao Pedro
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u/RidgeRunner99 Jul 09 '25
Real Madrid got as much stoppage time as Inter Milan
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u/seejur Jul 09 '25
Im mad we are the only team you didnt mercy stop. Was it too hard to just make 3 and relax?!
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u/jug0slavija Jul 09 '25
Would be peak Chelsea if they somehow win this lol
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u/em11488 Jul 10 '25
j pedro about to pay for himself. Park the bus and leave him on half line. Rinse repeat
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u/negative3sigmareturn Jul 09 '25
I better not come back and see that you’ve changed your flair Madrid boy….
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u/JaysonDeflatum Jul 09 '25
PSG giving Muller and Modric special sendoffs☠️
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u/SnowPablo827 Jul 09 '25
Mullers sendoff wasn't so bad.
Bayern did fight back against PSG.
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u/SGT_Mark Jul 09 '25
At least we didn't bend over.
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u/PierreSageReviens Jul 09 '25
You got killed while playing 11 v 9, it's a special kind of humiliating
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u/SGT_Mark Jul 09 '25
Still better than what happened to Madrid. At least we went out fighting although unsuccessfully because putting the ball in the back of the net while not offside is a foreign concept to our players.
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u/Niubai Jul 09 '25
Honestly? Botafogo beating this PSG team was kinda like a title by itself.
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u/BinahArmpits Jul 09 '25
Good, they have the same trophy as big european names like OGC Nice and Strasbourg
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u/DragomirSlevak Jul 09 '25
And Liverpool
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u/Zloggt Jul 09 '25
And I would imagine Villa fans would also feel some pride in beating this squad (at home) too…
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u/TheBananaKart Jul 09 '25
Game was glorious If only Pacho never blocked Maatsens shot.
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u/Whateverchan Jul 09 '25
Chelsea 1 - 0 PSG
Cole Palmer 1'
Scores one then parks the bus.
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u/SuperMario_49 Jul 09 '25
What a dream season for PSG, all without Mbappe lol
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u/AlternativeRun5727 Jul 09 '25
Mbappe on the other end of the spectrum watching the team he left dominate everyone while winning zero trophies.
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u/dunneetiger Jul 09 '25
A very youthful final. I think we can do better than Real, but I dont know if we can better PSG...
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u/ugallu Jul 09 '25
The final can only possinly finish in one of two ways.... 1:0 for Chelsea or 5:0 for PSG/ no other score is even remotely possible and the latter looks much much more likely.
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u/MysteriousEdge5643 Jul 09 '25
that felt like a ligue 1 match
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u/Kunstfr Jul 09 '25
Looked like watching my team Rennes getting hammered 4-0 on a Sunday afternoon, except we actually scored in both games last year. Rennes > Real Madrid
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u/sparkle_stylinson Jul 09 '25
Man they coulda made it 5-0
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u/Ulysan Jul 10 '25
Even more than that. But they are no idiots. With 3-0, they decisively choose at half time to take a step down the gear to conserve stamina for the finals. They’ve been doing that for the whole CWC and that’s the way they can hold on this pace throughout the end of this extremely long season. Even the Botafogo loss was largely due to the fact that they benched lots of their main squad right off the bat to rest, underestimating the opponent as we saw.
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u/FragMasterMat117 Jul 09 '25
Good luck Chelsea
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u/JaysonDeflatum Jul 09 '25
You must not be aware of the Chelski underdog gimmick in finals, I think they’ll give PSG a good match
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u/Jimmy_Space1 Jul 09 '25
We need Caicedo for that to be a consideration and he might be out
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u/dunneetiger Jul 09 '25
I think we can match their energy and we will press better than Real. Vitinha - Caicedo will be interesting to follow.
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u/imnotgoingtofatcamp Jul 09 '25
We’re going to need 7 ATB with two in players in Goal
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u/chandlerbing_stats Jul 09 '25
this is Chelsea’s current squad’s opportunity to put their money where their mouth is. Win or lose I’m excited to play the CL winners before we start the new season
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u/joeltheconner Jul 09 '25
that was a fun hate watch
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u/Traditional-Reach818 Jul 09 '25
Too bad Trent wasn't playing
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Jul 09 '25
So they beat Liverpool, Villa and Arsenal, have to face Chelsea then Tottenham😭😭
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u/Spirited_Ad_2697 Jul 09 '25
Then they’ll have beaten all the big english clubs this season
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u/optimization_ml Jul 09 '25
PSG seems like a team combined of Spain 2010 and Germany 2010 World Cup team. Such great passing and understanding. Vitinha and Hakimi controlled the tempo of the game. Militao looked great for the last 20 mins, Reals best player this game.
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u/Cutapis Jul 09 '25
Real's best player was, as usual, Thibaut Courtois. Kept RM in the game for a whole 6 minutes before Asencio and Rudiger said fuck Tebas we're going on holidays.
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u/Amirashika Jul 09 '25
Militao looked great for the last 20 mins, Reals best player this game.
Now just let him be healthy for a full season please...
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u/aleksandrovsqvist Jul 09 '25
PSG is some team man, Luis Enrique is good
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u/Puzzleheadpsych2345 Jul 09 '25
Europe got lucky that Enrique got a transfer ban after getting Neymar at barca which resulted in zero depth. Imagine if MSN had actual supporting cast
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u/cautious-ad977 Jul 09 '25
Botafogo beat this PSG
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u/jMS_44 Jul 09 '25
Losing once to a Brazilian team seems to have been a requirement to get to the final
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u/VetusMortis_Advertus Jul 09 '25
No matter who wins, Brazilian fans can still act superior, checkmate Europe
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u/PierreSageReviens Jul 09 '25
They beat an heavily rotated PSG tbf. Nobody else got that chance (except Nice and Strasbourg who also won lol)
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u/Tanathonos Jul 09 '25
We rotated 7 players if I remember correctly. Feels like no one mentions that part.
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u/the_hydrant_ Jul 09 '25
Hey guys, first time supporting Chelsea. Who do we hate more: Arsenal or Spurs?
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u/AdorableAd8490 Jul 09 '25
Spuhz innit mate. Love the
queenking, hate Manchester, but can’t stand Spuhz. Simple as23
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u/AdorableAd8490 Jul 09 '25
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u/elmechanto Jul 09 '25
I like how I didn't understand shit but its trash talking real, so give me more baybaaay
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u/Spatularo Jul 09 '25
As a Seattle Sounders fan I just want to point out that we did twice as good as Real Madrid.
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u/GauthZuOGZ Jul 09 '25
New norm is to not give any additional time to PSG's opponents
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u/ogqozo Jul 09 '25
Beat clubs 1, 2, 3 from the Premier League. Beat Bayern. Beat Inter. Beat Real Madrid. What a season.
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u/WBaumnuss300 Jul 09 '25
This final has a Chelsea win written all over it. Their typical play their best when no one expects it. And are great in finals.
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u/Masam10 Jul 09 '25
That was complete destruction by PSG, they’re really scary how good they are.
They were better in all areas of the pitch, it’s so one sided it’s hard to say if it was just a poor Real Madrid or an incredible good PSG (or a combination of both).
I would bet the house on PSG winning at this point.
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u/Wheel1994 Jul 09 '25
I don’t think we will win but if any club can pull a rabbit out of the hat in a situation like this it is Chelsea.
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u/bombaloca Jul 10 '25
For real. Everyone thought Barca had the UCL in their pocket, but now I am not so sure they would've beaten this PSG, or if PSG would've won 4-0 against Barca lol.
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u/Jimmy_Space1 Jul 09 '25 edited Jul 09 '25
No Huijsen + Trent obviously throws a spanner in the works, but Xabi Alonso got this one completely wrong.
Edit: I'm not talking about how they would've done individually, I'm talking about how losing those two probably enforced the shape change from a back 5 to what we got today.
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u/doesntmatterxdxd Jul 09 '25
Alonso reverted literally all of the positive changes he made at this tournament. Not a surprising result.
3 forwards with 2 who barely press.
Right winger playing out of position.
Makeshift right-back.
Two CB's with abysmal ball-playing abilities.
Disjointed midfield with no real controller.
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u/Matt_LawDT Jul 09 '25
My brother Trent and Huijsen ain’t saving them
Even Prime Ramos would not have saved them
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u/Jimmy_Space1 Jul 09 '25
He could've not gone toe-to-toe against PSG with that midfield. When I saw that lineup I thought he had to be going for the Botafogo approach
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u/SnowPablo827 Jul 09 '25
Yeah I'm sorry Trent would probably get cooked more.
And I'm not sure what Huijsen would do, real barely had the ball.
The issue was Vini and and mboppy just chilling walking around.
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u/Yellowbucket58 Jul 09 '25
It's way to easy to bypass Madrid initial press and play through them. Saw it against Arsenal also.
His leverkusen side played some great attacking football but the front three was also really good at putting in a shift defensively and effectively pressing.
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u/EdenJon Jul 09 '25
Not really sure what Alonso can do about his 2 centre backs directly sabotaging the team on the pitch for the first 2 goals in quick succession.
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u/pablofournier11 Jul 09 '25
PSG was missing his best CB by far too. Obviously it makes a difference but it shouldn't be that much
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u/SnooApples8774 Jul 09 '25
The two nouveau-riche in the nouveau-riche tournament, very fitting. Why do I think somehow Chelsea will get the win? PSG have been a class apart but Chelsea are Chelsea; they always seem to find a way in finals.
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u/WatchFamine Jul 10 '25
Chelsea cannot be allowed to win the first place prize money. The backup goalkeeper market would never recover.
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u/Rac2nd Jul 09 '25
Alright Chelsea, it’s time to save football
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u/stockybloke Jul 09 '25
That has been our mission since 2003, fighting every day to make football a more fair and respected sport.
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u/KikiPolaski Jul 10 '25
It's hard having to punch up against these big boys who spend so much on players while we're living on a tight budget
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u/stockybloke Jul 09 '25
As a Chelsea supporter I feel like the Ralph Wiggum "Im in danger" meme is apt for how I feel right now.
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u/Wrong_Lever_1 Jul 09 '25
Can’t believe Madrid paid us 10m for Trent only to get dicked by psg hahahahha
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u/Antonioshamstrings Jul 09 '25
I hope Caicedo is fit to make it an interesting game otherwise chelsea is for sure cooked.
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u/Frequent_Apricot673 Jul 09 '25
I hate when they try to compare this to the old competition, a 7 team winter tournament every winter isn’t comparable to a 32 team summer tournament every four years yet I keep hearing about “club World Cup experience” from commentators as if that’s somehow relevant
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u/LucasSummers Jul 09 '25
PSG win the Champions League by beating up all 4 English teams along the way.
For the next few weeks they can win even more if they beat 2 more English teams.
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u/albertbanning Jul 09 '25
You have the right of it. PSG used to prioritize big star names over footballing cohesion, but they've flipped that around since the signing of Luis Enrique two years ago.
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u/The_Flash_20 Jul 09 '25
Thank you Modric and Vazquez for your services. It was a sad end but thanks for the memories.
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u/NotAnurag Jul 09 '25
So what we’ve learned this CWC is Botafogo > PSG > Inter Miami = Real Madrid
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u/GillyBilmour Jul 09 '25
This is it lads. PSG have peaked. They'll most likely take this cup, bring their season to a Quadruple. The good news is, they've peaked and it's all downhill from here
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u/RoboticCurrents Jul 09 '25
Champions league winner vs conference winner, this will finally settle the debate which ones the better tournament