Luis Enrique has challenged his Paris Saint-Germain players to make history by winning the club’s first Champions League title in Saturday’s showpiece clash against Inter Milan in Munich.
PSG, who were beaten by Bayern Munich in their only previous Champions League final appearance in 2020, are aiming to become only the second French club, after Marseille in 1993 to be crowned European champions.
The Ligue 1 champions go into the game against Inter as favourites, despite the Italian club’s pedigree of three previous Champions League successes, and Coach Enrique, who guided Barcelona to their fifth, and most recent, European title in 2015, believes that his PSG squad is ready to break the mould at Parc des Princes by winning on Saturday.
“When you make history, it is about doing something that nobody at your club has done before,” Enrique said in his pre-match news conference. “But I love their (players) mindset. We are where we want to be, but we want to try to be as strong as possible and win.
“Our journey has been difficult, it’s been a long and winding road, but the fact we struggled through this competition in the early games it has probably helped us now.
“We have had to play ‘finals’ in this competition for a long time and had to deal with what has been thrown at us, but we haven’t shown any signs of fears so far and we won’t tonight,” Enrique said.
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