Chapter 476: Genuine
Knocking out Chelsea and reaching the Champions League final for the third year in a row is a perfect footnote to Inter's revival.
This time, it was Paris Saint-Germain who competed for the Champions League title with Inter Milan.
Yes, after years of hard work, Paris Saint-Germain has finally reached the final of the Champions League!
In the Champions League, the highest level of international football, at the club level, the group stage, the round of 16, the quarterfinals, the semi-finals, and the final, each stage represents a different meaning.
When Inter Milan was at a low point a few years ago, they were out of the Champions League for 6 years and did not even qualify for the group stage.
The most successful team in the history of the Champions League, the first team to defend the title in the Champions League, the first Real Madrid team to win the Champions League three times in a row, both seasons, also stopped in the round of 16.
Therefore, in the Champions League at this level, there is no strong team in the absolute sense!
This time it reflects the importance of winning the Champions League, defending the title, and winning three consecutive championships, which is precious!
Inter Milan is now going to win three consecutive titles, and Paris Saint-Germain is going to win the title, and both teams are bound to win this game.
This Champions League final, in a sense, is a conversation between the two strongest teams in Europe's top five leagues this season!
The "strongest" here means the strongest!
Paris Saint-Germain is now in the French league, a dominant one, other teams have no ability to compete with them, this season five rounds in advance, won the French league championship, is the top five European leagues, the championship suspense is the first to be revealed.
Inter Milan has been a little weaker this season than last season, winning the title only three rounds ahead of schedule and defending the Serie A title.
The English Premier League, Bundesliga, La Liga, and the championship competition this season are all fierce, until the penultimate round of their respective leagues, the championship situation is still unclear.
It wasn't until the penultimate round of the Bundesliga that the title race was decided, with Bayern Munich winning the title and consolidating their dominance in the Bundesliga.
The Premier League and La Liga are not known until the end of the last round of games, and the championship is not clear, and the Premier League is finally Liverpool who has the last laugh and wins the first league title since the Premier League restructuring; La Liga, it's still Barcelona, and it's a top skilled.
As the dust settles on Europe's top five leagues, fans all over the world are focused on the Champions League final, which is a routine every season.
This is the third consecutive season in which Inter Milan have reached the final of the Champions League, and the situation has been different every time.
In the 2018-2019 season, when the Champions League final was reached again after 9 years, the revival of the Inter Milan team was just beginning, and before the final, it was unanimously looked down upon.
In the 2019-2020 season, when seeking to defend the Champions League, although the opponent was the former "space fleet" Barcelona team, the Inter Milan team was able to compete with them, and the pre-game victory and defeat were five or five.
This season, Inter Milan wants to win the Champions League for three consecutive times, and the opponent is the upstart Paris Saint-Germain in European football.
There is a factual basis for this.
Although Paris Saint-Germain reached the Champions League final for the first time this season, the road to promotion was not smooth, with the quarter-finals being promoted by away goals, and the semi-finals were dragged to penalties.
Relatively speaking, although Inter Milan also lost to Chelsea away in the semi-finals, the promotion process was much smoother than that of Paris Saint-Germain.
This shows the calmness of the Inter Milan team.
Inter Milan have some of their dominance now.
This final has also been given a big showdown between the middle generation and the new generation in today's international football!
Today, when the era of Messi and Ronaldo's shining stars is coming to an end, it stands to reason that it should be time for Neymar, Pogba, and Icardi, the Mesozoic generation, to conquer the city and show themselves.
However, the new generation of Shen Feng and Mbappe unexpectedly took the lead in seizing power.
Neymar, born in 92, Pogba, born in 93, and Icardi, both born in 93, are regarded as a generation born at the wrong time.
When they emerged, it was the heyday of Ronaldo and Messi, and the limelight was suppressed, and it was not easy to survive until Ronaldo and Messi were old, and Shen Feng and Mbappe, who were younger than them, quickly rose again.
Neymar and the others were caught in the middle, and they were angry at both ends.
That is, Griezmann, who won the European Cup with his team last year and his identity as a European player, pulled out his teeth and grabbed the "World Footballer" and the European Golden Ball Award, which can be regarded as earning back some face for the Mesozoic.
The World Footballer of the Year and the European Ballon d'Or are regarded as the coronation of superstars, and players who have not won these two honors will inevitably have the status of superstars.
The first decade of the 21st century is a golden age of international football, even if it is a superstar like Ronaldo and Zidane, they cannot join forces to dominate international football for ten years like Ronaldo and Messi.
In the era of Ronaldo and Zidane, there were also superstars such as Figo, Shepchenko, Ronaldinho, etc., standing side by side with them.
In the era when Ronaldo and Messi stood side by side, other players, such as Iniesta, Ribery, Suarez and others, although they were also very strong, but compared with them, there was a certain gap.
In fact, in terms of personal ability alone, Neymar, Pogba, Icardi and others are no worse than Figo, Shepchenko, Ronaldinho and others, or even worse than Ronaldo, Zidane, Ronaldo, Messi, it's just that they lack the momentum of some superstars.
Shen Feng and Mbappe, although they are four or five years younger than Neymar and others, they amazed the world as soon as they debuted!
Mbappe became a World Cup champion at the age of twenty and a European Cup champion at the age of twenty-two!
At the age of 21, Shen Feng led the weak Dragon Country team to the top 16 of the World Cup, became the champion of the Asian Cup and the Copa America at the age of 22, and became the youngest World Footballer after Ronaldo and the "Mr. Double" of the European Golden Ball Award in the same year.
The key is that Mbappe and Shen Feng did not rely on their predecessors to obtain the above honors, but by their own efforts.
Mbappe is a little cheaper, because the French team he is in is also used for good players like Griezmann and Pogba, Mbappe can only be regarded as their little brother, but Mbappe is not playing soy sauce in the process of the French team winning the World Cup and the European Cup, but the real main force, and he has contributed a lot.