European champion PSG drubs Real Madrid, setting up Club World Cup final with Chelsea

Ronald Blum · The Associated Press

· Posted: Jul 09, 2025 6:29 PM EDT | Last Updated: 2 hours ago

Fabian Ruiz scored doubly arsenic Paris Saint-Germain built a three-goal pb successful the archetypal 24 minutes and routed Real Madrid 4-0 connected Wednesday, advancing to the Club World Cup last against Chelsea.

Ruiz scored successful the sixth infinitesimal and Ousmane Dembele successful the ninth pursuing glaring mistakes by defenders Raul Asencio and Antonio Rudiger, and Ruiz made it 3-0 to headdress a counter. Goncalo Ramos added a extremity successful the 87th.

Coming disconnected its archetypal European title, PSG plays for the title connected Sunday.

Real fared nary amended than Inter Milan, overrun by PSG 5-0 successful the Champions League final. The 15-time European champion looked sluggish aft traveling to Florida for grooming betwixt games, and PSG had 76.5 per cent possession successful the archetypal half.

Real's Kylian Mbappe was not a menace successful his archetypal crippled against his erstwhile team.

Luka Modric entered successful the 64th successful apt his past lucifer for Madrid, his squad since 2012. Eder Militao came successful astatine the aforesaid clip successful his archetypal crippled since tearing his close ACL connected Nov. 9.

PSG surged up aft Lucas Beraldo's transverse was mis-hit by Raul Asencio, Thibaut Courtois tipped the shot from Dembele and Ruiz slammed it into the bare net.

Dembele past took possession astir 40 yards retired aft a Rudiger mis-hit, dribbled and slotted past Courtois.

PSG went the magnitude of the tract to marque it 3-0. Hakimi exchanged passes with Dembele, past crossed for Ruiz, who maintained power contempt Federico Valverde's situation and scored from 8 yards for his 3rd extremity of the tournament.

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