{"id":10870,"date":"2025-06-15T18:55:19","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/sin-categoria\/psg-aims-for-the-club-world-cup-after-thrashing-atletico-luis-enrique\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T18:55:19","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T22:55:19","slug":"psg-aims-for-the-club-world-cup-after-thrashing-atletico-luis-enrique","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/soccer\/psg-aims-for-the-club-world-cup-after-thrashing-atletico-luis-enrique\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG aims for the Club World Cup after thrashing Atl\u00e9tico: Luis Enrique"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Luis Enrique: PSG Eyes the Club World Cup<\/h2>\n\n\nParis Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique has stated that his team is &#8220;hungry&#8221; to add the Club World Cup to their Champions League success, after defeating Atletico Madrid 4-0 in the opening match of Group B.\n\nFabi\u00e1n Ruiz and Vitinha scored for PSG in the first half at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, while substitutes Senny Mayulu and Lee Kang-In, with a penalty, added two more goals at the end of the match, after Atl\u00e9tico defender Cl\u00e9ment Lenglet was sent off.\n\nThe PSG won the treble last season, conquering Ligue 1, the Coupe de France and the Champions League, after defeating Inter 5-0 in the final last month.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>We aimed to make history this season, but this [the Club World Cup] is a new chapter. It&#8217;s a pleasant challenge for the players and the team, wanting to keep winning.<\/p><cite>Luis Enrique<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nLuis Enrique added that the club, the fans, the players, and the team are hungry for victory, which he considers a good sign. The coach is not worried about being the favorite, but the goal is to go as far as possible and try to win the tournament.\n\nThe match was played before a crowd of 80,619 spectators at the Rose Bowl, which organizers pointed out as a season attendance record for both clubs.\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a3.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=%2Fphoto%2F2025%2F0615%2Fr1507054_1296x729_16%2D9.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\"><figcaption>El entrenador del PSG, Luis Enrique, felicita a D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 durante la victoria de su equipo en la Copa Mundial de Clubes.\nGetty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\nAtl\u00e9tico coach Diego Simeone did not blame the midday heat for his players&#8217; performance.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>When the season starts in August [in Madrid], it&#8217;s just as hot. I won&#8217;t blame the heat. It&#8217;s the same for both teams.<\/p><cite>Diego Simeone<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSimeone praised PSG as a great, young team with good players, who have now established themselves as a solid team.\n\nAtl\u00e9tico improved in the second half, where Juli\u00e1n \u00c1lvarez had a goal disallowed after a VAR review for a previous foul, and substitute Alexander Sorloth missed a clear opportunity.\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>In the first half we didn&#8217;t play as we should have. They played very well. Even when we won the ball, we couldn&#8217;t escape their pressure.<\/p><cite>Diego Simeone<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\nSimeone added that the team competed despite the hard defeat, and that they are now obliged to obtain good results in the next matches.\n\nAtl\u00e9tico will play against the Seattle Sounders on June 19 in Seattle, while PSG will face Botafogo from Brazil, also at the Rose Bowl.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Enrique: PSG Eyes the Club World Cup Paris Saint-Germain coach Luis Enrique has stated that his team is &#8220;hungry&#8221; to add the Club World Cup to their Champions League success, after defeating Atletico Madrid 4-0 in the opening match of Group B. Fabi\u00e1n Ruiz and Vitinha scored for PSG in the first half at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[2704,787,705,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-10870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-atletico-madrid","9":"tag-club-world-cup","10":"tag-luis-enrique","11":"tag-psg"},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alofokedeportes.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}