Experience, Quality, Versatility – Why Inter Milan Can Win Champions League Final Against ‘Mini Barcelona’ PSG | OneFootball

Experience and versatility could favour Inter Milan in the upcoming Champions League final against “mini-Barcelona” PSG.

This is the view in today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via FCInterNews.

The Champions League final has been confirmed. Inter and Paris Saint-Germain will face off after overcoming Barcelona and Arsenal respectively in the semifinals.

Both sides have had a winding path to get to this point. And both have had to show different faces against different kinds of opposition.

But in the view of the Gazzetta, Inter have been the team with far more consistency.

Particularly in the “league phase” the Nerazzurri hardly put a foot wrong apart from a drab loss away to Bayer Leverkusen.

PSG, by contrast, floundered up until a 4-2 win, coming back from 0-2 down, against Manchester City. That was the real turning point for them.

Inter Milan Could Be Favourites Vs “Mini Barcelona” PSG In Champions League Final

MILAN, ITALY – MAY 06: Lautaro Martinez and Matteo Darmian of FC Internazionale celebrate after their team’s 4-3 victory in the UEFA Champions League 2024/25 Semi Final Second Leg match between FC Internazionale Milano and FC Barcelona at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on May 06, 2025 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)

The Gazzetta dello Sport brand PSG as a “mini-Barcelona” for their performances in Europe thus far.

The Parisians don’t quite have the attacking firepower that Barcelona do. Nor can they boast an individual forward as devastating as Lamine Yamal, or a midfielder with the class of Pedri.

However, PSG do seem to have a defensive steel and willingness to protect their goal as a unit that the Blauagranas do not.

Therefore, the Gazzetta argue, it will be a different sort of challenge to the all-out slugfest that Inter Milan had against Barcelona.

But the basic idea remains the same. Inter must keep a pacey, interchanging PSG attack at arm’s reach. And then attack the spaces that the French champions leave in behind.

And the newspaper argue that the key for Inter could be to use their vast experience.

For many Inter players, this is almost certainly the last opportunity they’ll have to list European football’s biggest prize at club level.

The Nerazzurri know what it means to miss out on it at the final hurdle from 2023. And they’ll do anything not to feel that heartbreak again.

That has been a motivator for Inter throughout the competition. It has pushed them to overcome the likes of Arsenal, Bayern Munich, and Barcelona.

And for the Gazzetta, it could be decisive against Paris Saint-Germain as well.