UEFA Champions League 2025/26 Season

[Xyloo]

This is the statistical result of our overly high expectations for an exciting final, and the result was incredibly boring. I fell asleep watching it and woke up just before extra time. Arsenal fans should realize that playing defensively will not win the Champions League title. The hopes of all club fans in Europe came true, namely that Arsenal failed to win the UCL trophy.

You lie when you say the match was boring, goals isn’t the only thing that’s exciting in a match, Arsenal came with a structure and game plan as well as PSG. Arsenal were unlucky not to win.

Football isn’t all about attacking and attacking, more recognition should be given to defending. The likes of Barcelona lose out because their defensive play is not as strong and yesterday the attack of PSG couldn’t do shit.. all those shots and no one could pass the goal.

It’s unfortunate Arsenal failed to complete the English all round title winners across Europe.

Paris Saint-Germain had a very high number of shots on goal, but I don't think they created many dangerous chances. Kvaratskhelia was really effective in some situations, and he was also responsible for winning the penalty. Arsenal defended very well and put up a magnificent fight against a team like Paris Saint-Germain. Considering that both teams had been preparing for this match for weeks, the draw wasn't surprising given their balanced play. They showed us the best thing: beautiful football played by both teams for 120 minutes. Penalties decided the winner. I think Paris Saint-Germain deserved it, and they won on penalties.

[MorganaX]

We have seen Arsenal's match strategy in every match of the knockout round. So there is nothing surprising in their performance. Arsenal played defensively as usual and managed to draw the match. Even in extra time, neither team was able to score a goal. PSG won the Champions League final last season by a huge margin of 5-0. This season, they won in a penalty shootout. PSG was lucky, no doubt about it. However, PSG dominated the entire match. PSG had 72% ball possession in this match.

That's right, Arsenal game throughout the UCL especially when entering the last 16 was more of a defensive strategy, it was proven that they had never lost, but to get the title they had to be brave, and I expected that in this final, the fact that their efforts only played defending one goal from the initial goal they scored even after PSG scored an equalizer, Arsenal still did not play more offensively, Arteta probably wanted to win on penalties, considering Raya was quite reliable but luck was not on their side.

It's always going to be hard when it comes to defending a goal especially when it's the champions league final, I mean there have been cases of this similar scenes and for almost all the times the defending team always end up getting equalized and unfortunately the game doesn't go there way. One example I can point to is the champions league final against Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid where Athletico Madrid followed the same route and they were also equalized and later lost the game in the extra time of play.

[Odusko]

Paris Saint-Germain had a very high number of shots on goal, but I don't think they created many dangerous chances. Kvaratskhelia was really effective in some situations, and he was also responsible for winning the penalty. Arsenal defended very well and put up a magnificent fight against a team like Paris Saint-Germain. Considering that both teams had been preparing for this match for weeks, the draw wasn't surprising given their balanced play. They showed us the best thing: beautiful football played by both teams for 120 minutes. Penalties decided the winner. I think Paris Saint-Germain deserved it, and they won on penalties.

I didn't expect anything less aggressive approach from PSG in the champions league finals because as a title defending champion their already know how desperate they're opennent will be since Asernal is playing in the champiobs league finals for the very first time in a long time, and also considering Asernal current standing victory this season, PSG wa just being defensive if not that, Asernal could have taken the trophy from them this season creating a long time record in the European football clubs.

[Stavri]

PSG won the Champions League in that unforgettable match where they beat Bayern Munich 5 4. imo that legendary match was the real final of this tournament... Bayern's only misfortune was the draw only Paris could have knocked them out and due to bad luck in the draw they faced them in the semifinals and were eliminated. Otherwise imo Bayern Munich was a far better team than Arsenal.

It won't leave the fact that Arsenal made PSG struggled to win trophy, see how it was easier for PSG to score even when Bayern Munich manage to equalize but could they do that against Arsenal? If not for Cristhian Mosquera's foul on Kvaratskhelia maybe Arsenal would've won that match cause it began to favour them after PSG equalized.

 I won't deny that the first half was boring cause Arsenal defended mostly and wanted to rely on counter which didn't worked perfectly but when Arteta brought in some attacking players the game changed and was tough to the point that PSG had to drop back too. I used to be against Arsenal in the EPL but they really tried, they weren't beaten in 90mins unlike Bayern Munich.

true. but Arsenal's frontline was seriously lacking as always. in the rare chances they got inside the PSG box, they couldn't string a decent pass together let alone find the right positioning.
you can't just play football by setting up a rock solid defense and hoping the attack might somehow nick a goal or two.

Arsenal's attack was indeed non-existent for almost the entire match. After scoring, Arteta's side dropped so deep into defense that they effectively had no one left upfront; whenever Arsenal won the ball, there was no outlet passenger to kickstart a counter-attack. You can't blame the Gunners for this, though—they were just doing what they do best. Their defense is world-class, but Arsenal still haven't learned how to transition effectively from defense to attack. I think that's exactly why they failed to score any more goals against PSG.

yeah but ofc no matter what, Arsenal did a great job this year with a squad that looks way weaker on paper than the teams they're competing against. if they make A+ signings for a striker a left back and the wings, they can compete at the same level again next year.

[Wake Up]

Paris Saint-Germain had a very high number of shots on goal, but I don't think they created many dangerous chances. Kvaratskhelia was really effective in some situations, and he was also responsible for winning the penalty. Arsenal defended very well and put up a magnificent fight against a team like Paris Saint-Germain. Considering that both teams had been preparing for this match for weeks, the draw wasn't surprising given their balanced play. They showed us the best thing: beautiful football played by both teams for 120 minutes. Penalties decided the winner. I think Paris Saint-Germain deserved it, and they won on penalties.

I didn't expect anything less aggressive approach from PSG in the champions league finals because as a title defending champion their already know how desperate they're opennent will be since Asernal is playing in the champiobs league finals for the very first time in a long time, and also considering Asernal current standing victory this season, PSG wa just being defensive if not that, Asernal could have taken the trophy from them this season creating a long time record in the European football clubs.

Even if we talk a lot here, nothing will change now. Arsenal is now the team that lost in the final, and Paris Saint-Germain is the team that took the Champions League trophy to their club museum for the second time. So I congratulate the French team. They deserved it from the very beginning. Manager Luis Enrique once again showed everyone his quality. By winning the Champions League twice in a row, he became one of the rare managers in the history of world football to achieve this. Also, he seems to have been born for football. Because I think he is a tactical genius in football.

[cande86]

The winners have been decided, Arsenal gave it their all to the point of even scoring their first goal very early in the game and almost solidifying their defences to the point where PSG would never have been able to score an equaliser but I suppose things don't always go according to plan all the time, that game last night was an amazing watch, seeing PSG will still think end was a very satisfying watch for me, I have nothing against Arsenal but I'm really glad they lost against PSG.

Arsenal played in a really good way, honestly i would have preferred if they had won the cup, they didn't deserve more, that's one thing for sure, having inexperienced people as players unfortunately is also this, they weren't able to maintain the advantage they had and in the end they lost.

[W Jr.]

The winners have been decided, Arsenal gave it their all to the point of even scoring their first goal very early in the game and almost solidifying their defences to the point where PSG would never have been able to score an equaliser but I suppose things don't always go according to plan all the time, that game last night was an amazing watch, seeing PSG will still think end was a very satisfying watch for me, I have nothing against Arsenal but I'm really glad they lost against PSG.

Arsenal played in a really good way, honestly i would have preferred if they had won the cup, they didn't deserve more, that's one thing for sure, having inexperienced people as players unfortunately is also this, they weren't able to maintain the advantage they had and in the end they lost.

Arsenal put up a good fight throughout the match and, despite essentially playing behind, didn't give Paris Saint-Germain any scoring opportunities. Arsenal fought very well until the penalty, and continued to fight afterwards. However, they couldn't create any chances in attack. Had it not been for their early goal, they would have lost the match because they couldn't get near the Paris Saint-Germain goal. We witnessed an unexpectedly poor attacking performance from a Premier League champion. The Premier League is considered the best league in the world, but we saw their champion destroyed against Paris Saint-Germain.

[Localhostspeed]

Even if we talk a lot here, nothing will change now. Arsenal is now the team that lost in the final, and Paris Saint-Germain is the team that took the Champions League trophy to their club museum for the second time. So I congratulate the French team. They deserved it from the very beginning. Manager Luis Enrique once again showed everyone his quality. By winning the Champions League twice in a row, he became one of the rare managers in the history of world football to achieve this. Also, he seems to have been born for football. Because I think he is a tactical genius in football.

You guys knows how to make loser give up when they want to share their opinion So if PSG that won the league says things about the final match, those that apply to them to say they should forget about the yesterday final because they won? We will still talk about this final next season because it's one of the good moments that Arsenal will not forget so soon, they handled this game very well that PSG couldn't make equalize goal easily.

Some people think possessions is what win a game, we have seen a final moment of match which a team with 38% ball possession won the final match and the team with highest ball possession lost the match like there was nothing interesting in the final match. I never expected or see this game this way but it's what it's for PSG, there is another coming Champions League another season, a win delay isn't a win deny because Arsenal will come back again.

[Abdulzuruku01]

Saw this post this morning, obviously AI generated but shows the two times (2005-2006 and 2025-2026) that Arsenal have gone unbeaten in the champions league until the final. If Arsenal had won the CL last night, the team would have had a better seasons than the Invicibles.

We lost but I’m loving the attitude from the players. Declan Rice said it best in his post match interview. “Next year we are going to be ready, we stick together and keep fighting because that’s what we want to do.”

No matter how good a team you are, if you can't crown the end with a trophy, you are considered unsuccessful. This year's Arsenal had a quite good season and as a result won the Premier League. They were very close to winning the Champions League as well but it didn't happen. This team has players with character and next year they will be contenders for trophies in all competitions. Hopefully they can win the CL next year.

It's true and I must say an example of it was Arsenal, because they have been working so consistently and dedicated all their time and energy just to meet up and lift the trophy at the end, but they fumbled and losses everything a d their efforts has gone in vain. Arsenal has be unbeaten throughout this champions league matches,but theory problems or their challenges are attackers, they really need to comes up with new attackers to be able to strengthen their determination and achieving thier goals. I like as Paris Saint-Germain lifted thos season's champions league trophy again as they did again Inter last season, I was impressed with thier results.

[Arenga pinnata]

It's always going to be hard when it comes to defending a goal especially when it's the champions league final, I mean there have been cases of this similar scenes and for almost all the times the defending team always end up getting equalized and unfortunately the game doesn't go there way. One example I can point to is the champions league final against Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid where Athletico Madrid followed the same route and they were also equalized and later lost the game in the extra time of play.

A defensive style of play does indeed carry greater risk. Because even the slightest mistake can sometimes lead to conceding a goal as the opponent’s relentless attacks eventually break through. But it must be acknowledged that what Arsenal did at least demonstrated a solid defense. even PSG couldn’t break through that defense in the end. They only managed to score one goal from a penalty kick. So Arsenal’s defense truly deserves recognition. However, PSG’s style of play is far superior. They actively attack without neglecting their own defense. Arsenal actually used a strategy similar to PSG’s at one point. But since several Arsenal players were hit by a wave of injuries, Arteta began implementing a defensive strategy that was also quite successful. yet, even after the players recovered from their injuries, Arteta did not revert to the team’s previous playing style.

[Shineup]

We have seen Arsenal's match strategy in every match of the knockout round. So there is nothing surprising in their performance. Arsenal played defensively as usual and managed to draw the match. Even in extra time, neither team was able to score a goal. PSG won the Champions League final last season by a huge margin of 5-0. This season, they won in a penalty shootout. PSG was lucky, no doubt about it. However, PSG dominated the entire match. PSG had 72% ball possession in this match.

That's right, Arsenal game throughout the UCL especially when entering the last 16 was more of a defensive strategy, it was proven that they had never lost, but to get the title they had to be brave, and I expected that in this final, the fact that their efforts only played defending one goal from the initial goal they scored even after PSG scored an equalizer, Arsenal still did not play more offensively, Arteta probably wanted to win on penalties, considering Raya was quite reliable but luck was not on their side.

It's always going to be hard when it comes to defending a goal especially when it's the champions league final, I mean there have been cases of this similar scenes and for almost all the times the defending team always end up getting equalized and unfortunately the game doesn't go there way. One example I can point to is the champions league final against Real Madrid and Athletico Madrid where Athletico Madrid followed the same route and they were also equalized and later lost the game in the extra time of play.

So the best is to come out and play, who knows they might have scored more goals, but yet they chose to sit back and defend just a goal against a team like Paris Saint Germain, I think that was the worst mistake ever made in that game, like they would have thought of scoring another game before going back to defend, instead they were so full of themselves with just a goal, like they should have took the same advantage they used to score that goal to score another one, by so doing they'd be sure of the winning, but they let the game go the other way round.

[Odusko]

Even if we talk a lot here, nothing will change now. Arsenal is now the team that lost in the final, and Paris Saint-Germain is the team that took the Champions League trophy to their club museum for the second time. So I congratulate the French team. They deserved it from the very beginning. Manager Luis Enrique once again showed everyone his quality. By winning the Champions League twice in a row, he became one of the rare managers in the history of world football to achieve this. Also, he seems to have been born for football. Because I think he is a tactical genius in football.

The celebration could have been on another level if Asernal won the championship this season, I saw their fans already celebrating before the match started and even when their were leading with one goal from the early minutes of the match, this made PSG equalizing goals to hit a thunderous limit on Asernal and eventually the penalty finish the job for them, yeah big congratulations to PSG a a defending champion holder.

[giorgione]

Many people wanted what you said about that match because both teams have essentially the same things. So I also watched last night's match unlike previous finals. In that match, both teams put on a mediocre performance and I can say it wasn't that intense. Moreover as time wore on the fans stopped watching citing the lack of a close final.

Even before the final, these two teams had consistently put up fierce resistance whether in the preliminary round or in the quarterfinals. If they had played like they did in the previous round it might have been more intense. Arsenal's goal we might say was a fluke early in the match. However in the second half PSG implemented a new strategy perhaps suggested by Luis Unrique during halftime allowing them to continue attacking until they were awarded a penalty to level the score.
In that match PSG clearly dominated the game with their possession forcing Arsenal to defend. Arsenal's counterattacks were always thwarted by the PSG players' defensive dexterity forcing the match into extra time allowing PSG to win and retain their title on penalties. Congratulations to PSG.

I don't think it was a problem with the strategy that Luis adopted in the match, on the contrary i see that Paris Saint-Germain, instead of going on the attack, preferred a much more delicate and conservative approach to the match compared to their positions which are always very proactive in attacking, so i would have expected that Arsenal would have taken more advantage of it.

[Fiatless]

Arsenal put up a good fight throughout the match and, despite essentially playing behind, didn't give Paris Saint-Germain any scoring opportunities. Arsenal fought very well until the penalty, and continued to fight afterwards. However, they couldn't create any chances in attack. Had it not been for their early goal, they would have lost the match because they couldn't get near the Paris Saint-Germain goal. We witnessed an unexpectedly poor attacking performance from a Premier League champion. The Premier League is considered the best league in the world, but we saw their champion destroyed against Paris Saint-Germain.

After scoring in the early hours of the game, Arsenal went back to defend the goal. I think that was a mistake from Mikel Arteta. He would have kept attacking PSG. Playing defensively put so much pressure on the defence which led to the penalty. Arsenal decided to come out and play the game after conceding the goal. And from my observation there were able to curtail the attacking force of PSG and also created some goalscoring chances. They did their best but the best team won the game.

[Stable090]

Arsenal's attack was indeed non-existent for almost the entire match. After scoring, Arteta's side dropped so deep into defense that they effectively had no one left upfront;

Immediately Arsenal scored their first goal, Arteta wanted the players to play a defensive game, he wanted to defend the goal, but he couldn’t achieve that. Arsenal played well in the match if I will be honest, their defense was so strong, and that was the reason why PSG couldn’t score many goals in the match, but the defensive game which Arsenal played was the reason why Arsenal couldn’t get more than a goal in the match also.

Since Arsenal won the premier league title, Arteta wanted to win the champions league also, but he couldn’t achieve that. Arsenal should try again by next season, maybe Arteta will be able to win the champions league for Arsenal by next season.

[Ndabagi01]

Paris Saint-Germain had a very high number of shots on goal, but I don't think they created many dangerous chances. Kvaratskhelia was really effective in some situations, and he was also responsible for winning the penalty. Arsenal defended very well and put up a magnificent fight against a team like Paris Saint-Germain. Considering that both teams had been preparing for this match for weeks, the draw wasn't surprising given their balanced play. They showed us the best thing: beautiful football played by both teams for 120 minutes. Penalties decided the winner. I think Paris Saint-Germain deserved it, and they won on penalties.

Penalties are a game of luck and seeing PSG winning it shows that the luck was on their side and not on the side of Arsenal in that match. They only needed to protect their one goal to the end of the match but unfortunately they conceded a penalty which was not supposed to have been conceded at that point. The defender could have done better to defend the goal rather than fouling the player at that point, it caused them the loss to be honest.

Arsenal can do better next season and get to win an European trophy if they try their best. Arsenal has improved in their performance overall and I really enjoyed how their football has improved under Arteta, it shows that they can be more consistent next season and get to win a trophy. The next season will be filled with more actions, I hope Arsenal can deliver well as they did this season.

[DiMarxist]

This is the statistical result of our overly high expectations for an exciting final, and the result was incredibly boring. I fell asleep watching it and woke up just before extra time. Arsenal fans should realize that playing defensively will not win the Champions League title. The hopes of all club fans in Europe came true, namely that Arsenal failed to win the UCL trophy.

You lie when you say the match was boring, goals isn’t the only thing that’s exciting in a match, Arsenal came with a structure and game plan as well as PSG. Arsenal were unlucky not to win.

Football isn’t all about attacking and attacking, more recognition should be given to defending. The likes of Barcelona lose out because their defensive play is not as strong and yesterday the attack of PSG couldn’t do shit.. all those shots and no one could pass the goal.

It’s unfortunate Arsenal failed to complete the English all round title winners across Europe.

Paris Saint-Germain had a very high number of shots on goal, but I don't think they created many dangerous chances. Kvaratskhelia was really effective in some situations, and he was also responsible for winning the penalty. Arsenal defended very well and put up a magnificent fight against a team like Paris Saint-Germain. Considering that both teams had been preparing for this match for weeks, the draw wasn't surprising given their balanced play. They showed us the best thing: beautiful football played by both teams for 120 minutes. Penalties decided the winner. I think Paris Saint-Germain deserved it, and they won on penalties.

Even though this game didn't produce much goals as expected from many fans of football, just like the semi finals fixture's which produced a lot of goals. This game was full of actions and was interesting to watch this is because both Arsenal and PSG was careful not to conceeding plenty goals. We have to praise the two defense because they really rise up to the when it mattered the most in the finals. We can see from the statistics that there were shots on goals but they were not able to converting it into goals.

[POPOLUV]

Let us be truthful to ourselves, most of us didn't expect that Arsenal can even win either half or more of playing an extra minutes with Paris Saint-Germain, the penalty that was awarded to Paris Saint-Germain renew their hope in that game and still the both teams didn't agree to each others, so anytime i come across final that end with draw and even with the extra minutes that will attach to the match yet nothing to show that can separate the two teams and they still end up playing draw, for me at that point, i will say that the both teams has provining that they have equal strength of playing each other without nothing to separate the two teams both in full time and extra minutes that was attached to the match,  no matter as Arsenal lost to Paris Saint-Germain, I'm still proud of the Arsenal club because Paris Saint-Germain didn't expect what Arsenal gave to them in that final, so penalty is just a game of being able of shooting or placing the ball beyond goalkeeper reach to score a goal.

[Roseline492]

Paris Saint-Germain had a very high number of shots on goal, but I don't think they created many dangerous chances. Kvaratskhelia was really effective in some situations, and he was also responsible for winning the penalty. Arsenal defended very well and put up a magnificent fight against a team like Paris Saint-Germain.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia is someone whose important to the club has not taking any bad shape for several champions league, Luis Enrique doesn't substitute him except they don't have much time because if he substitute Khvicha Kvaratskhelia early, the squad could loss form on there forward, they brought Barcola to substitute him when the 90 minutes was almost there but however Barcola also got a chance that would have not made the penalty necessary if he had scored it but fortunately for Arsenal it was behind the bar, PSG has warriors as a team because if not that Arsenal also took the game more determining than PSG they could have been explored as PSG did to Inter Milan.

[Pablo-wood]

Paris Saint-Germain had a very high number of shots on goal, but I don't think they created many dangerous chances. Kvaratskhelia was really effective in some situations, and he was also responsible for winning the penalty. Arsenal defended very well and put up a magnificent fight against a team like Paris Saint-Germain. Considering that both teams had been preparing for this match for weeks, the draw wasn't surprising given their balanced play. They showed us the best thing: beautiful football played by both teams for 120 minutes. Penalties decided the winner. I think Paris Saint-Germain deserved it, and they won on penalties.

I didn't expect anything less aggressive approach from PSG in the champions league finals because as a title defending champion their already know how desperate they're opennent will be since Asernal is playing in the champiobs league finals for the very first time in a long time, and also considering Asernal current standing victory this season, PSG wa just being defensive if not that, Asernal could have taken the trophy from them this season creating a long time record in the European football clubs.

PSG obviously should have more attempts on goal because they are more into the champions league competition compared to Arsenal. Both teams made the tournament interesting and entertaining. Both team deserve the trophy because the both gave in their best but the fun fact is only one champion emerges at the end of the day. PSG played with experience while Arsenal were a bit skeptical. Although the didn't allow their fear swallow them.