After Monaco in 2004, PSG became the first French club to reach the UCL final in 16 years.
Paris Saint-Germain reached their first-ever Champions League final with a comfortable 3-0 win over Bundesliga outfit RB Leipzig on Tuesday to end a 16-year wait for a French side to reach European football’s summit clash. Goals from Marquinhos, Angel di Maria and Juan Bernat helped the Parisians ease to win victory at Lisbon’s Estadio da Luz stadium. Thomas Tuchel’s men were dominant from minute one pressurising Leipzig who struggled to play out from the back. Neymar’s early effort came off the upright but shortly after Marquinhos headed PSG in front from a set-piece delivered by Di Maria. PSG missed more chances in the first half but profited right at the end of it with Di Maria finding the net. It was a cruise for the French champions in the second half as they sealed a 3-0 victory after Bernat’s goal. The stats of the game show how dominant PSG were. When PSG take to the field at the Estadio da Luz in Lisbon on Sunday, it will only be the sixth time that a French team will appear in a European Cup final.
