Monstrous Psg 'leading A New Era' - But Problems For Real Madrid

Paris St-Germain look for illustration a squad building a dynasty aft Luis Enrique's broadside dismantled yet different European elephantine - this clip Real Madrid 4-0 - to scope nan Club World Cup final.

The French broadside bashed Inter Milan 5-0 5 and a half weeks agone successful nan Champions League last - and they are showing fewer signs of letting up.

While critics person dismissed nan Club World Cup arsenic almost for illustration a friends tournament, that is not really it has been played. It is being taken arsenic earnestly arsenic immoderate title by nan players.

PSG had a blip against Brazilian broadside Botafogo, but person beaten some Atletico and Real Madrid 4-0 successful nan United States tournament, positive German champions Bayern Munich 2-0 contempt ending nan crippled pinch 9 men.

Teams conscionable cannot header pinch their pace, passing and pressing - and they proceed to tear isolated immoderate squad successful their way.

They led 3-0 wrong 24 minutes, acknowledgment to a Fabian Ruiz double and Ousmane Dembele strike, earlier Goncalo Ramos netted pinch 3 minutes left.

Next up are Chelsea successful Sunday's last successful New Jersey.

"Luis Enrique has created a monster," said Dazn pundit Andros Townsend.

And erstwhile Real Madrid guardant Gareth Bale added: "They look for illustration a squad who are going to beryllium astir for a agelong time.

"They are very young, relentless and want to embarrass teams."

In nan abstraction of a year, PSG person go a squad galore neutrals actively willed to suffer successful nan Champions League - to nan champion squad successful nan world to watch.

Fittingly, 2 of nan figureheads of nan 'old PSG' - who were much astir egos than a squad - were some connected nan incorrect broadside of 4-0 hammerings successful nan US.

It was Lionel Messi's Inter Miami successful nan past 16 and Kylian Mbappe's Real Madrid successful Wednesday's one-sided last-four tie.

Since Mbappe, PSG's all-time apical scorer, near past summertime for Madrid erstwhile his statement expired, Enrique has built a new-look frontline.

Dembele, Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia are electric. Sometimes Bradley Barcola is successful location to origin mayhem too.

Their midfield 3 - Portugal duo Joao Neves and Vitinha, and two-goal Spaniard Ruiz - power games.

Ex-Chelsea midfielder John Obi Mikel said connected Dazn astatine half-time: "When nan 3 successful nan mediate dictate nan play for illustration that, no-one tin extremity them. It has been a masterclass."

Former Newcastle striker Callum Wilson added: "Some of that shot from PSG was for illustration watching Fifa. Incredible."

And that is without mentioning non-stop up-and-down attacking full-backs Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes, who are besides a large portion of really PSG play.

And having won nan French Cup, Ligue 1 and Champions League, they are now conscionable 1 crippled distant from a 4th awesome trophy of 2025. Throw successful nan lesser Trophee des Champions and it could beryllium a cleanable expanse of five.

Chelsea will person their activity trim retired to extremity them connected Sunday. Dating backmost to nan Coupe de France final, PSG person won their past 5 knockout information matches by a mixed people of 18-0.

Luis Enrique must now beryllium considered 1 of nan elite managers successful world football, having won Trebles pinch Barcelona and PSG.

"He has group nan standard," said Welshman Bale. "They are starring a caller era.

"They person group a very precocious barroom and everyone successful shot will beryllium trying to transcript them and trying to extremity them."

The only interest for PSG could beryllium fatigue.

Sunday will beryllium their 65th lucifer since nan commencement of nan 2024-25 campaign. Exactly a period aft that crippled they look Tottenham successful nan Uefa Super Cup to commencement 2025-26.

Dembele has surely stepped retired of Mbappe's protector this season.

The 28-year-old Frenchman has scored 35 goals and created 16 assists successful 52 games successful 2024-25, including this competition.

Until now, Dembele's champion goalscoring play was 14 for Barcelona.

The speedster is now nan favourite to triumph nan Ballon d'Or - thing that would person seemed intolerable a twelvemonth aliases 2 ago.

"It's nan first lucifer successful this tourney that we tin usage [start] Ousmane and I deliberation he has been our champion subordinate this season," said Luis Enrique.

"He deserves to triumph everything because he gives his each to nan nine and has done each season."

Former England guardant Wilson, 33, added: "Unbelievable numbers from Dembele.

"If he wins nan Club World Cup aft winning nan Treble, surely he has to triumph nan Ballon d'Or?"

And it is not conscionable those numbers that impress.

"It each starts from nan work-rate of Dembele - he forces players into mistakes," said Townsend astatine half-time, while summarising PSG's awesome performance.

Unlike Luis Enrique, Xabi Alonso is still getting to cognize his Real Madrid team.

The Spaniard took complete astatine nan extremity of nan La Liga play erstwhile Carlo Ancelotti near for Brazil - and still has plentifulness of activity to do connected nan grounds of this game.

Alonso has been experimenting pinch formations, trying 4 and five-man backlines. England right-back Trent Alexander-Arnold missed this brushwood done injury, truthful midfielder Federico Valverde played successful that position instead.

And it did not thief that immoderate of their attacking players did not activity difficult enough.

"Vinicius Jr and Mbappe conscionable haven't been search backmost down nan sides and that is simply a large problem successful this formation," said Townsend.

"[Left-back] Fran Garcia is not happy, he has had perfectly nary thief down that left-hand side."

Alonso admitted: "They person been building for 2 years and we are conscionable starting truthful we will return time. We will person to study from today, but nan emotion astatine nan infinitesimal is not nan best.

"We request a due break. This is not nan opening of adjacent year, this is conscionable nan extremity of this season. After conscionable 3 weeks present I deliberation we tin return positives. We will return lessons from today."