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Real have lost the head after previous difficult defeats this season, but not so this time. They accept this painful, borderline humiliating loss by congratulating their opponents warmly. Handshakes all round. Luka Modric, his Real Madrid career ending tonight, is rewarded with a smacker from his boss Xabi Alonso … who will be under a bit of pressure now, one month and nine days into his new job. Yes, that’s beyond ridiculous, but Real Madrid expect to win everything they enter, and that’s just how it’ll be. They’ve certainly got a lot of work to do if they’re to get the better of Barcelona in La Liga next season; the gap between them and PSG is even bigger. Job to do.
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FULL TIME: PSG 4-0 Real Madrid
PSG will meet Chelsea in the final on Sunday! They’ve got there by teaching Real Madrid a proper lesson. It was four; it could have been many more.
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90 min: There won’t be any extra time. Well, there’s three seconds of it, before the referee puts Madrid out of their misery.
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89 min: That was such a lovely goal, Barcola and Ramos taking turns to bamboozle the Real defence with their sweet skills. Does four qualify as a rout? Perhaps not in strict numerical terms. But this is a proper thrashing.
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GOAL! PSG 4-0 Real Madrid (Ramos 88)
Hakimi romps down the right. He crosses low. Barcola can’t get a shot away, level with the left-hand post, but keeps hold of the ball, spinning away from Militao, before rolling back infield for Ramos. He spins elegantly too, seeing off Tchouameni, and pings into the bottom left. Then he goes off to celebrate, sitting down cross-legged to play video games, a touching tribute to his pal Diogo Jota.
Paris St Germain’s Goncalo Ramos shoots … Photograph: Brian Snyder/ReutersAnd scores. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/ReutersShare
Updated at 22.02 BST
87 min: Militao steals the ball off Neves and strides towards the box. He slams a shot straight at Donnarumma. Then PSG break upfield, and …
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85 min: Modric’s delivery is dangerous, and Militao finds a pocket of space, six yards out and level with the near post. He slams his header wide right. A decent chance to plant a small seed of doubt in Parisian noggins.
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84 min: Valverde advances down the right, released by a cute drag-back and flick from Diaz. He wins a corner. Modric to take.
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83 min: Vazquez comes on for Guler. Both teams have now used up all of their subbing allowance.
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82 min: PSG hog the ball. Real appear broken. No attempt to get that ball back.
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80 min: Nothing comes of the corner.
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79 min: Mayulu wedges a pass down the right to release Hakimi into acres. Hakimi looks for Ramos in the middle, but is denied by Militao’s extended leg, which diverts out for a corner. Before it can be taken, Lee comes on for Mendes.
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78 min: The game restarts.
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76 min: Time for a drinks break. “We boiled up snow and ice to make hot strong Bovril … how that beefy taste cheered us.”
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75 min: Valverde creams a shot towards the top right. It’s heading in, but bravely blocked by Beraldo. That was really travelling. The ball’s deflected out for a corner, which is worked back to Fran Garcia, whose drive through a crowded box bounces harmlessly through to Donnarumma.
Real Madrid’s Fran Garcia has an unsuccessful pop from outside the box. Photograph: Brian Snyder/ReutersShare
Updated at 21.59 BST
73 min: Carvajal, not yet up to speed after his long, long break, picks up a quick booking for accidentally high-kicking Barcola.
Ooof. Photograph: Brian Snyder/ReutersShare
Updated at 22.00 BST
72 min: Hakimi slips Ramos into the Real box down the inside-right channel. Ramos shanks a shot wide under pressure from Militao. PSG hunting for this fourth goal.
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71 min: To appreciative cheers, Carvajal returns to the Real Madrid team for the first time since suffering an ACL injury last October. He replaces Gonzalo Garcia.
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70 min: Barcola chases a long pass down the left flank and breaks into the box. But before he can shoot, he’s correctly flagged for handling mid-dribble. PSG suddenly showing in attack again, though.
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69 min: … Ramos has options to release a team-mate either side, but blooters a shot into the nearest defender instead. A huge chance to put paid to Real’s admittedly small-scale revival once and for all.
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68 min: Real are enjoying their best spell of the game. They press PSG back and win a couple of corners. The second one leads to some head tennis, from which PSG break upfield, and …
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66 min: PSG respond by burning through another two subs, removing Ruiz and Doue and sending on Zaire-Emery and Mayulu.
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65 min: Real make a triple change, replacing Bellingham, Vinicius Jr and Asencio with Militao, Modric and Diaz.
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64 min: Bellingham barrels down the middle, space opening up in front of him. He shoots. Beraldo blocks. Mbappe wanted the pass, and isn’t happy. But Real recycle possession and win a corner out on he left. The set piece leads to Mbappe swinging in from the left. Donnarumma punches clear. This is better from Real, even if the bar is low.
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62 min: Guler goes over in the PSG box when trying – and failing – to shield the ball from Mendes. It’s a good tackle and a desperate claim. Play is waved on.
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61 min: So far, PSG have made 467 passes to Real Madrid’s 168. You have to wonder how often Real have been on the end of a lop-sided stat like that.
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59 min: Real load the box but waste the free kick.
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58 min: Vinicius Jr tries to get something going for Real, first shooting from a tight angle on the left – blocked – then drawing a free kick from Mendes down the same flank. Before the free kick can be taken, Kvaratskhelia and Dembele are replaced by Ramos and Barcola.
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57 min: Kvaratskhelia cuts in from the left and curls a shot wide of the right-hand post. Then Hakimi probes down the right but his low cross is snaffled by Courtois. If there’s to be a fourth goal in this game, right now it’s PSG who look more likely to notch it.
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56 min: Bellingham looks for Gonzalo Garcia down the right but falls backwards while making the pass, and the ball is sprayed into the stand. One goal could feasibly alter the mood and change the momentum, but Real don’t look like scoring it.
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55 min: The pace drops. PSG stroke the ball hither and yon. Real, their spirit broken, don’t do much in the way of chasing down.
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53 min: Valverde rolls a pass across the face of the PSG box from the right. Mbappe meets it first time, lashing wildly over the bar. You’d give quite a few shiny centimes for his thoughts right now.
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52 min: Tchouameni lets the ball run under his foot and nearly lets Doue through on goal. He’s fortunate Doue isn’t on the front foot. This has been an utterly shambolic defensive display by Real.
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51 min: Tchouameni clips Neves on the ankle. He’s already been booked, so wants to watch himself. Just a foul. In fact, he’s injured himself while challenging so requires some treatment. After a brief stoppage, he’s good to continue.
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50 min: To be fair, the semi-automated replay shows Dembele was fairly clearly off. The Real defence working in tandem for once.
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48 min: Kvaratskhelia sends Dembele free down the left. Dembele passes infield for Doue, who enters the box and slots into the bottom left. Fortunately for Real, there was an offside in the build-up. It must have been close, because Dembele looked on to the naked eye.
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47 min: Valverde tries to get something going for Real down the right, but loses control, and Kvaratskhelia steals away with the ball. His crossfield pass nearly releases Doue down the right. Not this time. But then …
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PSG get the second half started. No half-time changes.
It’s been an enjoyable afternoon so far for the PSG fans … Photograph: David Ramos/Getty ImagesLess so for Kylian Mbappe and his Real Madrid teammates. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/ReutersShare
Updated at 21.56 BST
Half-time entertainment. Given what’s just happened, it’s worth reading this again.
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HALF TIME: PSG 3-0 Real Madrid
… but there’s no time for the corner to be taken. Sweet, blessed relief for Real, who have been comprehensively worked over by this sensational PSG side. It’s no exaggeration to suggest it could easily be 6-0. It wouldn’t flatter PSG either. They’ve got one foot and four toes in the final.
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45 min +4: Dembele strides down the left and, almost on the touchline, attempts to lob the out-of-position Courtois. His effort is dropping into the top-left corner, and Courtois is forced to tip over the bar. He whacks his hip on the upright in making the save.
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45 min +3: Guler tries to release Mbappe into the box with a pass down the right channel, but Donnarumma is quickly off his line to smother.
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45 min +2: The corner’s worked to the other flank. Mendes smacks a drive goalwards from a tight angle on the left. Courtois parries. Real try to counter, but Neves doesn’t allow Guler to break upfield. He’s booked for his illegal tug.
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45 min +1: Hakimi threatens to burst down the right, forcing Fran Garcia to toe-poke the ball out for a corner. Garcia hangs his head. He’s had little support.
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45 min: There will be three additional first-half minutes.
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44 min: PSG continue to stroke the ball around imperiously. “If Enzo Maresca is watching this, he might want to think about self-deporting his Chelsea team some time before next Sunday,” suggests Justin Kavanagh.
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42 min: Courtois comes out of his box and slices a clearance straight to Doue. The keeper breathes again as Doue fails to control the ball. Had he managed to do so, he’d have dispatched it into the empty net from 40 yards.
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40 min: Again, it should be four. Kvaratskhelia glides into the Real box from the left, repositions the ball with his studs to confuse Asencio, and drags a low drive wide of the right-hand post. Courtois was rooted to the spot, so had that been on target … well.
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39 min: Mbappe goes over in the PSG box, claiming a penalty, but the referee is quite correctly not interested, Neves having whipped the ball cleanly off his toe. Just about everyone involved with Real, players, staff and coach, are frowning real hard right now.
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37 min: Kvaratskhelia steals the ball off Mbappe, then immediately nutmegs Guler before racing off down the left. Real are light at the back, and Kvaratskhelia has options. But Bellingham races back to execute a perfectly judged last-ditch tackle from behind. Four-nil looked on the cards there.
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36 min: PSG stroke it around the back in relaxed style. Then the ball’s pinged down the right for Doue. Courtois is quickly up to the edge of his box to claim. Just as well.
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34 min: Play restarts. “It feels like we’re at the point with Ousmane Dembélé that the Ballon d’Or vote feels like a formality,” observes Kári Tulinius. “Even last fall he seemed more like a fun player but wasted talent, and now he’s on the cusp of being an all-time great. Just give him the gong already.”
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33 min: Xabi Alonso is well within his rights to give it to his players straight. But he stays calm, issuing tactical advice in a measured manner. “Assuming it stays 3-0 at half-time,” begins Peter Oh, “he can rally his troops by invoking Istanbul.” The way PSG are piling into Real, that’s quite the caveat.
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32 min: Time for a drinks break. “Good friends, the roaring fire … the perfect time for a hot Dr Pepper! Delicious and so easy to prepare. Just heat Dr Pepper in a saucepan until it steams.”
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