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So, Paris Saint Germain are the champions of Europe after winning on penalties against Arsenal last night in Budapest. And this afternoon, the squad are heading back here to the French capital for a victory parade in the heart of the city culminating at the Eiffel Tower before they head off to the Elysee Palace this evening where they will be congratulated by the president himself, Emmanuel Macron. Well, in a moment we'll talk about what's ahead this afternoon, but first let's get a sense then of the mood here in Paris last night and in Budapest where as I say that final was played.
Aside from Real Madrid this decade, no one else has done it. We're going to go for a third next year and one day we'll go for a [screaming] fourth because we are PSG, the best in Europe. No one comes close to us. It was an incredible game from the beginning to the end. It was full of emotion and I think it's a huge milestone in our history right now because it's the first time that we do the back-to-back. So, we are super happy. Jubilation there from those uh PSG fans who made it uh to Budapest and with me here in the studio is France 24 sports journalist Emily Boyle. Emily, um let's talk about the match itself then before we look at what's coming up this afternoon. Um
quite a slow 90 minutes wasn't it before it went to penalties? Um what did you make of it overall? Yeah, well there was obviously a lot at stake. It's a Champions League final, a big pressure and it was billed as basically this best offense versus best defense, right? You had PSG, they score a lot of goals, they play flamboyant beautiful football and then you have Arsenal who are experts at defending. I think they barely conceded any goals, 16 in 14 matches ahead of this Champions League final. PSG were hoping to get their hands on that back-to-back that we've just seen the fans talking about. Arsenal are hoping for their first ever Champions League. And as you said, it was quite slow after the first goal in
the sixth minute by Kai Havertz. He, of course, made the most of a defensive mistake to put it in the back of the net past a Savinoff there. And then Arsenal did what Arsenal do best. They parked the bus, basically closing their defensive lines, eating up all the space available for PSG players who are used to being able to exploit those spaces. And then PSG came out of the second half looking really, really angry and hungry for more, wanting to get themselves back into this game. And they were able to in the 61st minute with a penalty that was converted by a Dembélé, of course, Ousmane Dembélé at Ballon d'Or. And then, as you said, it was pretty slow until the 90-minute mark. And in extra
time, they both looked so knackered. And that was when it was interesting to talk about the way that these two managers managed their changes because you had Arsenal's Mikel Arteta who got in a lot of players quite early in. So, they started making changes around the 70th minute. And the whole front four, the front three, sorry, all the forwards changed for Arsenal. So, they had really, really fresh legs. Luis Enrique played it more cool. He kind of was more patient and waited to get the his fresh legs into this game. And it wasn't that made a difference in the end because it went to those penalties, as you said, quite an excruciating end to a Champions League final. And then it just
came to that last missed penalty by a Gabriel. And uh Champions uh and the Champions uh were Paris Saint-Germain for their back-to-back titles. So, yeah, quite, quite an interesting semi-fi sorry, final in the sense that it went to penalties and there was all that drama. But it's true that it was quite a slow game to start. Nothing more nail-biting than penalties, as you say. Emily Boyle for the moment, thank you very much. Indeed, we will have much more for you uh throughout the afternoon. We are waiting uh for the Paris Saint-Germain team to touch down here in Paris for the celebrations. We'll
