Perhaps it is too early to call the ERA defeat in the way in which the 7-3 victory of Real Madrid was in 1960 or AC Milan's 4-0 demolition of Barcelona seemed to be in 1994. There was also Barca's victory in 2011. But no team – not one – had ever won this trophy with five goals.
It is an extraordinary way for Paris Saint-Germain to win the Champions League for the first time in their history. It should mark the end of a trip, but for the young team of Luis Enrique, their 5-0 victory feels the start of something instead.
For example, inter -humiliated Inter that they wanted the whistle when the third went in – certainly one of the great goals in the last history of Champions League, ended by Desire Done. The referee is obliged to save them, the time of PSG, the point of PSG proven long ago.
The men of Simone Inzaghi came for the eyes. Statistically, the oldest side in the Serie A this season with an average age of 29, PSG was far too fast for them from the start and won the possession high against a surprisingly unambiguous Inter, which looked poorly equipped to cope.
It was as if they were not used in such a speed. Understandably. This was Doue's Night, Ousmane Dembele's season, and the couple rotated positions when Inter did not follow. It felt like football from the future and with an average age of 23, perhaps it is the future of PSG.
Everywhere in this team there are new stars, new stories. Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes are already the best full-back combination in football, although even that description does a bad service to them, given their tendency to pop up everywhere on the football field.
Vitinha, the former loaning Wolves, knits it together in midfield with a brand of bustling creativity. Fabian Ruiz still feels like a secret, despite the now propel from club and country by European awards. Joao Neves does the unseen work and still presses the game won.
In Gianluigi Donnarumma, PSG had the excellent goalkeeper in the competition, while Captain Marquinhos gives his thread this entire company to the prices and problems of the past, making it the highlight of his 11-year trip with the club.
Willian Pacho Beside him is not allowed to make the kind of smart signing PSG. The arrival of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia in the winter transfer window was the last part in the puzzle, so that Luis Enrique could also let his attackers rest enough to keep them fresh.
That the fifth goal was scored by a teenage recipient born on the outskirts of Paris, a product of the Academy, was almost too perfect. Senny Mayulu himself seemed in shock, his celebration suggested that even his dreams did not cover him the night.
This club, whose growth was characterized by superstar signing sessions that were often thrown against each other, finally had a story to tell that people wanted to see and hear. They found it closer to home, with the age -old lesson that football is a team sport that again taught.
Robert Pires, earlier in the afternoon with Sky Sports. “Luis Enrique has built a team, no names, no marketing. They have changed their way and that is what has brought them here. Football is not about names.”
Pires explained: “In my time I played against the Galacticos [of Real Madrid in the 2000s]. But they didn't win. Football is a collective. It is not Neymar or Lionel Messi or Kylian Mbappe. They didn't win either. Today I like this Paris Saint-Germain team. “
It is remarkable how PSG has changed the perceptions about it. They are still Qatarese property and now richer than ever. Kvaratskhelia was signed in January for more than € 70 million (£ 59 million). Many people will close a blind eye when it is so good to look at.
Claude Makelele is better placed than most to explain the transformation. He was not only a coach at PSG when they first underwent this change, but he was the man who was foolish from the midfield of Real Madrid to spoil those galacticos.
He said to Sky Sports to him on the eve of this evacuation: “PSG corrected their mistakes. They dreamed of winning it very quickly.
“But you have to fight. Now the humility is there. They are ready. ” The spark turned out to be trusted in Luis Enrique.
In the Parc des Princes to see PSG losing from Atletico Madrid in November now feels a terrible long ago and one of the stories of this first Champions League season below the new format is that it is an epic. Those autumn results had little influence in Munich.
Since then, PSG has become another animal that has become entirely under Luis Enrique. “People criticized him in the beginning,” laughed Makelele. “What will they say in the end?” They will say that PSG has proven itself the very best in Europe.
The Coup De Grace was just beating inter so badly. They had underlined their superiority, even when losing the first stage of their last 16 draw to Liverpool. During the first 20 minutes against Arsenal they were enchanted in London and the Gunners never recovered.
After also defeating Manchester City in the quarterfinals in the competition phase and Aston Villa, Luis Enrique realized his promise in the beginning-that this version of Paris Saint-Germain, his Paris Saint-Germain, would be better without Mbappe.
And so this is the story of how a team shaved of perhaps the most gifted front three this century have seen in the process. Doue won the player of the game. Mayulu got his goal. Bradley Barcola, another young French attacker, should also have had at least one. “You have to have that basis,” said Makelele. Now they have it.
If that is the plan, if PSG has found a model that uses the talent on his doorstep while he supplements it with hungry signing sessions from all over the world, then this victory might prove to be an era, after all. This young team can get even better.
In 2022 they had to look while Real Madrid and Liverpool, European aristocracy, disputed the final in Paris. This was the Rolomkering, who took the party to Munich, the home of Bayern. Befeating Inter, Champions of Europeans before PSG were even established.
They have arrived empty. And while the most moving Tifo of the Night Eerde, it was the one who was shown in the beginning who set the whole tone for the evening for the whole story. Ensemble, Nous Sommes Invincibles. Together we are invincible.