{"id":67041,"date":"2025-06-01T16:54:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=67041"},"modified":"2025-06-01T16:54:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T16:54:55","slug":"psg-crush-inter-milan-5-0-to-clinch-first-champions-league-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/06\/01\/psg-crush-inter-milan-5-0-to-clinch-first-champions-league-title\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG Crush Inter Milan 5-0 to Clinch First Champions League Title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Oluwamayowa Fakande<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The French giants stormed to their first UEFA Champions League title in stunning fashion, thrashing Inter Milan 5-0 in Saturday\u2019s final in Munich, the biggest winning margin in the competition\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The emphatic victory capped a historic treble for PSG, who had already claimed Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France this season.<\/p>\n<p>Achraf Hakimi opened the scoring in the 12th minute against his former club, setting the tone for a dominant performance.<\/p>\n<p>Teenage sensation D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 added two goals, becoming the first teenager to net a brace in a final since Benfica legend Eus\u00e9bio in 1962.<\/p>\n<p>Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and substitute Senny Mayulu completed the rout, sealing a night of redemption and record-breaking glory for the Parisian club.<\/p>\n<p>It marks a landmark moment for the Qatari-owned side, who for over a decade pursued Europe\u2019s top prize with a Gal\u00e1cticos-style strategy featuring stars like Lionel Messi, Neymar, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, and Kylian Mbapp\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Ironically, PSG\u2019s breakthrough came in their first season without Mbapp\u00e9, who left for Real Madrid last summer to chase Champions League glory.<\/p>\n<p>The victory also makes PSG only the second French team ever to win the competition, after Marseille\u2019s triumph in 1993.<\/p>\n<p>For manager Luis Enrique, it was a second taste of continental glory, having previously lifted the trophy with Barcelona in 2015.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Oluwamayowa Fakande &nbsp; The French giants stormed to their first UEFA Champions League title in stunning fashion, thrashing Inter Milan 5-0 in Saturday\u2019s final in Munich, the biggest winning margin in the competition\u2019s history. The emphatic victory capped a historic treble for PSG, who had already claimed Ligue 1 and the Coupe de France [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":67042,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67043,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67041\/revisions\/67043"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}