Marco Verratti couldn't miss it. While he has not played for a month with his club in Qatar, the Al-Arabi SC, the Italian midfielder came to attend, Saturday evening in Munich, in the final of the Champions League between PSG, his club from 2012 to 2023 (416 matches, 11 goals), and Inter, where he has “Many friends”.
“In matches like that, what matters most is efficiency. Playing well it allows you to be higher, to have the ball, but what we missed in 2020 was efficiency, we had opportunities to mark, to take the advantage and we did not do it. On this kind of final, it's 50-50 because the teams are all very strong and it can tip at any time ”launched Verratti to Canal+ about the final lost against Bayern (0-1), in 2020 in Lisbon.
Driven from PSG in September 2023 after years of shine and controversy, Marco Verratti ended up losing a hell of a record in the club of the French capital.
Marquinhos in front of Verratti
It is now Marquinhos who is the only player to have played the most finals with the Parisian club. The Brazilian Captain of Red and Blue equaled Verratti last week during the coronation in the French Cup against Reims and played his 21st final with PSG against the Nerazzurri.
Recruited in 2013 at Roma, Marcos aoás Corrêa won no less than 32 titles with Paris Saint-Germain, including 10 Ligue 1 crowns. The central defender, 31, played two C1 finals, eight of the French Cup (for a single defeat, in 2019 against the Stade Rennais), five of the League Cup (for so much success) and nine editions of the Champions there too).