Wily Inter Milan aim to stop PSG in Champions League showdown

Inzaghi's Inter Milan beat Bayern in the quarter-finals before defeating Barcelona in the last four

- Agence France-Presse

MUNICH: Favourites Paris Saint-Germain have their sights fixed on finally winning the Champions League trophy but a rugged and battle-hardened Inter Milan side stand in their way in Saturday's final in Munich.

The climax to the European season has thrown up a mouth-watering clash of opposing styles and ideas of how to build a team. It is a contest between one of the continent's old guard and one of the state-owned modern superclubs. Despite enormous spending, PSG have never won the most glamorous prize in European club football and this is just their second final since the transformative Qatari takeover of the team from the French capital in 2011.

In 2020, during the pandemic, they lost the final to Bayern Munich behind closed doors in Lisbon, despite the presence of Kylian Mbappé and Neymar up front.

Adding an ageing and unmotivated Lionel Messi to that front line took them further away from European glory than at any point in the last decade and their thrilling run to Munich has come in the season after Mbappé followed the South American superstar duo out of the exit door.