PSG vs Real Madrid live: Reaction as European champions demolish Madrid to seal Club World Cup final spot

The Club World Cup final will kick off at 8pm BST on Sunday 13 July at the MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

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European champions Paris St Germain produced a blistering performance to power into the Club World Cup final with a 4-0 rout of Real Madrid.

A one-sided semi-final in New York on Wednesday was effectively settled inside the opening 24 minutes as Fabian Ruiz struck twice either side of an Ousmane Dembele effort.

Spanish giants Real had no answer to the rampant Champions League winners, who added a fourth goal at the MetLife Stadium late on through Goncalo Ramos.

Chelsea are potentially 90 minutes away from becoming world champions after dispatching Fluminense in a dominant display in their last-four clash.

The Blues haven’t had the easiest ride to the Club World Cup final, having suffered one of the first shocks of the tournament in a 3-1 group stage loss to Flamengo before seeing their last 16 tie with Benfica marred by a two-hour weather delay.

They’ve managed to battle through, though, overcoming their Brazilian demons to beat Palmeiras, before a Joao Pedro brace gave them a win over the Tricolour to set up a date with destiny at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium.

Enzo Maresca’s side now wait to see who they will face, with a finale meeting with either Real Madrid or European champions Paris Saint-Germain in their sights.

Here’s everything you need to know.

That match is Luka Modric’s last in a Madrid shirt!

Real Madrid's Luka Modric will join AC Milan after the Club World Cup, the Serie A club's newly-appointed manager Massimiliano Allegri has confirmed confirmed.

The move means the 39-year-old midfielder, who announced in May that he would be leaving Madrid after the Club World Cup, will bring his 13-year spell at the Spanish giants to a close.

"Modric will arrive in August. He is an extraordinary player," Allegri said in his first press conference as Milan manager.

This was PSG's 64th match of 2024/25. That consists of 34 league games, 17 in the Champions League, six French Cup ties, six Club World Cup matches and one in the French Community Shield.

There’ll be a 65th as they look to cap a historic season by becoming the first winners of the new Club World Cup.

QUARTER-FINALS

Friday 4 July

Match 57: Palmeiras 1-2 Chelsea

Match 58: Fluminense 2-1 Al-Hilal

Saturday 5 July

Match 59: PSG 2-0 Bayern Munich

Match 60: Real Madrid 3-2 Borussia Dortmund

SEMI-FINALS

Tuesday 8 July

Match 61: Fluminense 0-2 Chelsea

Match 62: PSG 4-0 Real Madrid

PSG’s next game will be the Club World Cup final!

That match takes place on Sunday, 13 July at the MetLife Stadium in New Jersey.

Kick-off will be at 8pm BST in that one.

Is it too soon to call this “vintage PSG”? This iteration of the Parisian giants has only really begun to come into effect over the last eight months. But after watching the likes of Liverpool, Arsenal and Inter Milan fall to their brilliance in Europe, Paris Saint-Germain demonstrated their ability as a giant-killer on the global stage.

The mighty Real Madrid, one of the Club World Cup’s biggest draws to the American audience, were their latest victims.

To say that Xabi Alonso has been given a reality check in the Real hot seat might be a bit of a stretch. The levels between the side he’s inherited and the footballing powerhouse sculpted by Luis Enrique was apparent before a ball was kick. But if the former midfield maestro has his own hopes of “modernising” at the Estadio Bernabeu, he has a long way to go before the Galacticos can scratch the surface of what has been created in Paris.

“At the beginning the setback was strong enough, we knew that the task would be tough,” says Madrid manager Xabi Alonso.

“Today, at the moment the feeling is not the best, but we’ll have to try and learn from today. It’ll take time.

“At the moment we need a proper break. This is not the beginning of next year, just the end of the season,” he adds.

“We can take positives, and lessons from today. We’re not the first to face such a good team, and today we’ve faced one of the best in the world. We want to be there, but it’ll take time,” he says as he finishes.

Luis Enrique says that PSG “are happy with the performance”.

“I feel great. It’s lways difficult to play that kind of match. We started very well.

“It’s too much heat for me, you need to play in different conditions to watch a better show, but both teams did great.

“We’re in a special season, a special moment, and we deserved to win,” he adds.

On Dembele, he says: “It’s the first match we could use Ousmane. He’s the best player this season by a long way. He deserves to win everything because he gave everything to the team, and we’re going to achieve trophies that are very important.”

“One more step against a good team like Chelsea, they performed well the whole competition, but now it’s time for us to prepare. We want to make history,” he adds as he finishes.