Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) and Inter Milan will take the center stage on Saturday for the 2025 European Champions League final.
For the first time in 21 years since after Jose Mourinho’s Porto beat Didier Deschamps’ Monaco in 2004, there will be no Spanish, German or English club contesting the final. But no clubs are arguably more deserving of being crowned European champions this season than PSG and Inter Milan.
After struggling in the league phase, PSG have ripped through the best that England has has to offer in the knockout stages, removing Liverpool on penalties, then seeing off another promising English side – Aston Villa, and lastly brushing out the side that beat the spanish giant – Real Madrid Home & Away this season – Arsenal.
PSG have never won the European Cup or Champions League, only once getting to the final, when they lost narrowly against Bayern Munich in an empty stadium during the covid period (2020) in Lisbon.
Inter have a much better record in the tournament, 3-time winners – albeit not since 2010, and finalists more recently in 2023 when Manchester City were 1-0 victors. Their knockout route this time has been similarly tough, facing a Bayern Munich side in the last eight determined to reach the final in their home stadium, as well as a high-powered Barcelona in the semis.
PSG may have already had the Ligue 1 title sewn up, but contested the Coupe de France final against Reims. Inter finished the 2024/2025 Serie A season in second postion, behind winners – Napoli.
Here is Mainwap’s breakdown of the clash
Match Details
- Date: Saturday 31 May
- Kick-off Time: 20:00 BST / 15:00 ET / 12:00 P
- Location: Munich, Germany
- Stadium: Allianz Arena
- Referee: István Kovács (ROU)
- VAR: Dennis Johan Higler (NED)
Current Form – Previous 4 matches (all competitions)
| PSG | Inter |
|---|---|
| PSG 3-1 Auxerre – 17/05/25 | Inter 2-2 Lazio – 18/05/25 |
| Montpellier 1-4 PSG – 10/05/25 | Torino 0-2 Inter – 11/05/25 |
| PSG 2-1 Arsenal – 07/05/25 | Inter 4-3 (AET) Barcelona – 06/05/25 |
| Strasbourg 2-1 PSG – 03/05/25 | Inter 1-0 Hellas Verona- 03/05/25 |
PSG Team News
Newly crowned Ligue 1 Player of the Year, Ousmane Dembele could only make an appearance as a substitute in the semi-final second leg against Arsenal because of a minor hamstring injury. He sat out the next game back in Ligue 1 too, but the rumor from PSG is that it has been nothing serious.
Long-serving defender Presnel Kimpembe is ruled out, but he had already been relegated to a fringe player even when fit earlier in the campaign.
Inter Milan Team News
By his own admission, Inter captain and talisman – Lautaro Martinez wasn’t fully fit for the decisive semi-final second leg against Barcelona. He scored his team’s crucial opening goal but only lasted 70 minutes and has remained a doubt as medical staff try to get him ready to go.
Matchwinner Davide Frattesi was another player who played against the spanish side – Barcelona with an injury.
Frattesi, Benjamin Pavard and Henrik Mkhitaryan should all be fit for the finals. The big doubt is Martinez, but having played through the pain once, don’t count against him putting his body on the line for the second time.
PSG vs Inter Milan correct score prediction
If we’ve learnt nothing else from the rest of the knockout phase, it’s that these two teams can score goals at will, and concede them too.
Since getting their act together on matchday six of the league phase, PSG have netted 31 times at an average of 2.8 per game. But it’s been only six clean sheets in 16 European games this season.
Inter were the exact opposite during the league phase, breached only once at the back in eight games, but scoring just 11 or their own. That has largely gone out of the window in the knockouts, where it’s been 15 scored across eight games and just a single clean sheet. In the semi-final against Barcelona alone, both teams racked up 13 goals between them across 210 minutes.
Champions League finals don’t tend to be thrilling end to end affairs – four finals in a row between 2020 and 2023 all finished 1-0, including PSG and Inter’s most recent appearances. Last year, it wound up a comfortable 2-0 win for Real Madrid in the end.
Since both clubs have conceeded and score alot this season, meeting in the final goals will likely be scarce and at the end of the day, the team who has never won it before will score and defend like there lifes depends on it.
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