PSG and Arsenal, two teams with different but efficient playing styles, face each other this Saturday at 18:00 in the Champions League final: Luis Enrique proposes a more offensive and dominant football, while Arteta bets more on his team’s defensive solidity and taking advantage of set pieces. The final thus presents itself as a strategic duel between two coaches with very defined ideas. Luis Enrique will seek for his team to monopolize possession and take the initiative in the match, while Arteta will try to minimize spaces, maintain defensive solidity, and punish any mismatch from the French side. The English are unbeaten in this Champions League, but PSG has shown in their knockout matches against Liverpool and Bayern that they are the best attacking team in Europe.
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Arteta’s team does not drop too deep at the start of the match. PSG moves the ball side to side in their own half.
The final begins at the Puskas Arena!
Arsenal puts the ball in play.
How both teams arrive at the final
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PSG, the best attacking team; Arsenal, the best defensive team
This afternoon, the team that has scored the most goals in this edition of the Champions League, PSG, with 44 goals for, faces the team that has conceded the fewest, Arsenal, with only six.
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There is also Luis Enrique’s starting eleven!
As expected from the Asturian coach. Same starting eleven as in last edition’s final with Safonov in goal instead of Donnarumma, who left in the summer to Manchester City.
XI: Safonov; Achraf Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Nuno Mendes; Vitinha, Joao Neves, Fabián; Doué, Dembélé and Kvaratskhelia.
Here is Mikel Arteta’s starting eleven!
Mosquera plays in defense and Arteta again bets on Lewis-Skelly with Rice in the double pivot.
XI: David Raya; Mosquera, Saliba, Gabriel, Hincapié; Rice, Lewis-Skelly, Odegaard; Saka, Trossard and Havertz.
Good afternoon and welcome to the live coverage of the Champions League final!
PSG and Arsenal face off in less than an hour at the Puskas Arena in Budapest to fight for the Champions League. The French, reigning champions, seek their second big ear against the English, who have never won the title. It will be a final with a Spanish flavor due to the two coaches leading the benches. At PSG is Luis Enrique, who made history last year after winning the first European Cup for the Parisian team. At Arsenal is Mikel Arteta, who arrives after winning the Premier League this season.
