7 h. ago Real Madrid’s PSG thrashing shows Xabi Alonso true size of rebuilding job

New manager faces tough questions before next season, with the biggest just how to find the right fit for superstar striker Kylian MbappéThis is the end. For Real Madrid, the best thing that could be said about their last game of the 2024-2025 season was that it was their last game of the 2024-2025 season. So in the makeshift marquee set up by the MetLife Stadium, Xabi Alonso said exactly that, and repeatedly. He had watched his team, who aren’t entirely his team yet, be taken apart by Paris Saint-Germain; now he wanted to get home and “reset”, forget about it. Well, not forget exactly: the hurt might help, lessons learned. “I want this to have an impact but not drag us down,” he said. “In August we start 2025-26, which will be different.”The way they fell was familiar, back to their recent past, their reality. “We suffered the way others have suffered against them,” Alonso said, and that was true, but it is not only PSG; it is Madrid too. This was their 68th game of the season and ...

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9 h. ago Luis Enrique responds to PSG accusation after thrashing Real Madrid

Paris Saint-Germain head coach Luis Enrique says his team has more than answered its critics with its recent achievements

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29 h. ago ‘We didn’t put the brakes on’: Luis Enrique denies PSG spared Real Madrid

Several key players substituted as PSG romped to 4-0 winXabi Alonso ‘hurt’ but says ‘next year will be different’On the afternoon that Paris Saint-Germain reached the final of the Club World Cup, placing them 90 minutes away from winning every trophy available this season, Luis Enrique underlined how far they had come by recalling: “In January, people said we didn’t have leaders and didn’t score goals.” Since then they have scored more than 100 and won their first ever Champions league with a 5-0 victory against Inter in the final. Here they put four past Real Madrid with a display so dominant that he had to deny that they had taken their foot off the gas.In doing so, however, the PSG head coach did reveal that he had made changes with Sunday’s final against Chelsea in mind. PSG were two goals up inside 10 minutes and had made it 3-0 before they had played half an hour, the game effectively over, before Gonçalo Ramos added a fourth in the dying minutes. Continue reading...

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29 h. ago Mbappé gets stuck in Dembélé’s shadow in Real Madrid’s shapeless shambles | Jacob Steinberg

PSG’s Club World Cup demolition was further proof that perhaps Real Madrid signed the wrong French forwardThe first drinks break was unplanned. It came six minutes ahead of schedule, but Real Madrid were grateful for the respite. They wandered to the touchline, dazed and confused, and reached for the water bottles. They looked to Xabi Alonso and hoped for answers. After 24 minutes of being pummelled by Paris Saint-Germain, though, the thought occurred that the players in white would have been better off asking for smelling salts.It is never a good sign when the emergency team talk takes place with more than an hour left. PSG had just stormed into a 3-0 lead, Fabián Ruiz scoring his second after a stunning combination between the exceptional Ousmane Dembélé and the flying Achraf Hakimi on the right, and to be honest the scoreline felt kind on Madrid. The New Jersey sun was beating down but PSG were merciless. Lads, it’s 33C. Any chance of slowing down? Continue reading...

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30 h. ago The lessons Xabi Alonso will have to learn as Real Madrid humbled by imperious PSG

PSG 4-0 Real Madrid: Alonso will have an eye at emulating Luis Enrique’s transformation at PSG after a humiliating defeat

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30 h. ago Luis Enrique reveals Club World Cup final plan as Paris Saint

PSG cruised past Real Madrid in the semi-final and will be high on confidence ahead of the final

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30 h. ago PSG cruise to Club World Cup final after Ruiz and Dembélé stun Real Madrid

PSG 4-0 Real Madrid: Ruiz 6 24, Dembélé 9, Ramos 87Chelsea to play European champions in Sunday’s finalThere was a moment towards the end of Kylian Mbappé’s final season in France when Luis Enrique called him into his office and explained that if they did things his way, then Paris Saint-Germain could become an “absolute machine”.A little over a year later, on the day his first season at Real Madrid came to an end against his former club, the striker saw for himself, up close and painful, just how right his coach had been. The team that went to Munich and put five past Inter, the biggest winning margin a European Cup final has ever seen, came to New York and scored four against the game’s greatest aristocrats to take them to the final of the Club World Cup. Continue reading...

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31 h. ago PSG vs Real Madrid LIVE: Club World Cup result, latest updates and reaction after Parisians rout Madrid

A spot in the final is on the line!

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31 h. ago PSG dismantle Real Madrid to book Chelsea date in Club World Cup final

PSG 4-0 REAL MADRID: Chelsea will have been watching from behind the sofa as the European champions were at their brilliant best to demolish Los Blancos

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31 h. ago PSG vs Real Madrid live: Reaction as European champions demolish Madrid to seal Club World Cup final spot

PSG 4-0 Real Madrid: Dazzling first-half display sees Parisians wrap up famous win over Los Blancos

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31 h. ago Chelsea fans say ‘wish we lost’ after PSG hammer Real Madrid to set up Club World Cup final

Chelsea fans have been left wishing they lost their Club World Cup semi-final to Fluminense after PSG hammered Real Madrid to meet the Blues in the final

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32 h. ago PSG vs Real Madrid live: Latest updates as Fabian Ruiz brace puts European champions in control

Two European giants face off with a place in the Club World Cup finals at stake in New Jersey

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33 h. ago PSG vs Real Madrid live: Latest updates as Ousmane Dembele doubles European champions’ lead

Two European giants face off with a place in the Club World Cup finals at stake in New Jersey

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34 h. ago PSG XI vs Real Madrid: Confirmed team news, starting lineup, injury latest for Club World Cup semi

PSG are without suspended defensive duo for Club World Cup semi-final showdown

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34 h. ago Real Madrid XI vs PSG: Confirmed starting lineup, injury latest for Club World Cup semi

Los Blancos are without one of their summer signings due to suspension

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40 h. ago Donald Trump reveals special role for Club World Cup final one year on from Butler assassination attempt

Chelsea will face the winners of Wednesday's clash between European giants PSG and Real Madrid at 3pm ET at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. And the president will be in attendance.

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43 h. ago When do Chelsea play in the Club World Cup final? Date, kick

Everything you need to know ahead of the Club World Cup final

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45 h. ago Why Real Madrid represent everything that the ‘new PSG’ tries to fight

Real Madrid embody the superstar-heavy ideology that Luis Enrique worked desperately to change at PSG

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51 h. ago Luis Enrique dodges Kylian Mbappe talk as PSG prepare for hostile reunion in Real Madrid showdown

Mbappe will face off against his former employers with a place in the Club World Cup final on the line

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53 h. ago PSG or Real Madrid? Chelsea boss Enzo Maresca reveals preferred Club World Cup final opponent

Blues will face either PSG or Real Madrid in Sunday’s final

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