PSG beat Tottenham on penalties to claim UEFA Super Cup

Tottenham fto gaffe a two-goal pb arsenic precocious PSG strikes sent European football’s play opener to penalties successful Italy.

Paris Saint-Germain bushed Tottenham 4-3 connected penalties to win the UEFA Super Cup, completing a singular rally aft scoring 2 precocious goals to instrumentality the lucifer to a shootout.

It secured the 5th trophy of 2025 for the French club.

Lee Kang-in scored successful the 85th for PSG, and chap substitute Goncalo Ramos grabbed an equaliser successful the 4th infinitesimal of stoppage clip to marque it 2-2 successful regulation.

Nuno Mendes converted the clinching punishment successful the shootout for PSG.

“I americium proud. We haven’t [had] overmuch preparation, but you could spot that shot is not lone astir the carnal facet – it is besides astir the intelligence aspect, being successful the close place, having the close tactics,” PSG skipper Marquinhos told broadcaster Canal Plus.

“They sat backmost a batch aft going 2-0 up, and it is unsafe to invitation PSG to travel astatine you similar that.”

Paris Saint-Germain’s Fabian Ruiz, Goncalo Ramos and Marquinhos observe aft winning the UEFA Super Cup [Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters]

The Super Cup is an yearly early-season lucifer betwixt the astir caller winners of the Champions League (PSG) and Europa League (Tottenham), and it was hardly going to publication erstwhile the English nine took a 2-0 pb aboriginal successful the 2nd half.

Defenders popped up with Spurs’ goals, with Micky van de Ven showing speedy reactions to prod location the opener successful the 39th infinitesimal aft caller PSG goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier tipped Joao Palhinha’s changeable onto the crossbar.

Chevalier – playing up of Gianluigi Donnarumma, who announced Tuesday helium was leaving PSG – mightiness person been unlucky with the archetypal extremity but was to blasted for the 2nd aft failing to support retired a header from recently appointed Tottenham skipper Cristian Romero successful the 48th.

Tottenham is further on successful its preparations for the caller run than PSG, whose players person lone conscionable returned to grooming aft being progressive successful the Club World Cup until mid-July, and looked overmuch sharper astatine Stadio Friuli.

PSG finished strongly, though, and deed Tottenham with precocious goals arsenic Lee smashed successful a debased changeable from the borderline of the country and Ramos headed location Ousmane Dembele’s right-wing cross.

Paris Saint-Germain’s Goncalo Ramos scores their 2nd extremity [Guglielmo Mangiapane/Reuters]

In the shootout, Vitinha missed PSG’s archetypal attempt, but the French squad past converted 4 successful a row. Van de Ven and Mathys Tel failed to people for Tottenham, whose manager, Thomas Frank, was taking complaint of his archetypal competitory lucifer with the Premier League team.

Frank took implicit successful the offseason pursuing the firing of Ange Postecoglou, who led Tottenham to its archetypal trophy successful 17 years with a triumph implicit Manchester United successful the Europa League last successful May.

“I deliberation we played a precise bully crippled against 1 of the champion teams successful the satellite – possibly the champion successful this infinitesimal successful time,” Frank told TNT Sports.

“I deliberation we had them precisely wherever we wanted them for 80-something minutes until the 2-1 goal. Then, of course, that shifted a small spot the momentum, but determination was truthful overmuch positive.

“I americium truthful arrogant of the team, the players, the club, the fans. I deliberation determination is simply a batch to beryllium blessed with. It is simply a flip of a coin erstwhile you spell into a punishment shootout.”

PSG completed the Champions League-Ligue 1-Coupe de France treble past season, besides winning the Trophee des Champions successful January. The squad lost the Club World Cup final to Chelsea.

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