PSG hammer Real Madrid 4-0 to reach FIFA Club World Cup final

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A Fabian Ruiz treble helps Paris Saint-Germain thump Real Madrid to acceptable up FIFA Club World Cup last against Chelsea.

Published On 9 Jul 2025

Fabian Ruiz scored twice, Ousmane Dembele tallied a extremity and an assist, and Paris Saint-Germain eliminated Real Madrid arsenic good arsenic Kylian Mbappe from the FIFA Club World Cup by sailing to a 4-0 semifinal win.

PSG built a 3-0 pb successful 24 minutes, deflating the heavy pro-Madrid assemblage connected Wednesday. Goncalo Ramos, who subbed connected for Dembele aboriginal successful the 2nd half, added a extremity for bully measurement successful the 87th minute.

Gianluigi Donnarumma parried 1 aboriginal changeable by Mbappe and finished with 2 saves, but the PSG defence was different unbothered en way to their 5th cleanable expanse successful six tourney matches.

Wednesday marked Mbappe’s archetypal clip facing PSG, for whom helium scored 256 goals implicit 7 years earlier joining Madrid a twelvemonth ago. After coming connected arsenic a substitute successful the past 2 matches, Mbappe started up beforehand alongside Gonzalo Garcia, but was held disconnected the scoresheet.

Trent Alexander-Arnold was retired of Real Madrid’s squad, reportedly owed to a grooming injury.

Paris Saint-Germain's Fabian Ruiz scores their archetypal goal

Coming disconnected its archetypal European title, PSG volition play for the title connected Sunday.

Real fared nary amended than Inter Milan, overrun by PSG 5-0 successful the Champions League final. The 15-time European champions looked sluggish aft travelling to Florida for grooming betwixt games, and PSG had 76.5 percent possession successful the archetypal half.

A assemblage of 77,542 was astatine MetLife Stadium connected a scorching day, with a somesthesia of 33 degrees Celsius (91 degrees Fahrenheit) astatine kickoff and humidity that made it consciousness similar 38C (101F).

PSG’s onslaught wasted nary time, however, forcing Courtois to marque 2 hard saves during the archetypal 5 minutes. But successful the sixth, Dembele robbed Raul Asencio of the shot successful the centre of the box, tapped it distant from Courtois’s diving scope and acceptable up Ruiz for a one-timer into the backmost of the net.

Ousmane Dembele' of Paris Saint Germain scores extremity during the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 semifinal lucifer betwixt Paris Saint-Germain and Real Madrid

Dembele made Madrid wage again erstwhile helium closed successful connected Antonio Rudiger, who proceeded to whiff connected a walk effort successful the antiaircraft half. Dembele bolted distant and bushed Courtois successful the bottommost near country for a 2-0 pb little than 9 minutes in.

After Mbappe’s 3rd changeable of the time was blocked, PSG ran retired connected a objective counterattack. Achraf Hakimi sprung escaped down the close broadside connected a give-and-go with Dembele, and Hakimi’s transverse acceptable up Ruiz’s 2nd extremity successful the 24th minute.

Paris Saint-Germain volition look Chelsea connected Sunday successful the final. Chelsea won the rubric successful 2021, portion PSG volition effort to go the archetypal squad from France to seizure the trophy.

PSG has earned $88.4m to $113.8m for reaching the final, the magnitude depending connected a information fee.