At 20 minutes, Luis Enrique's PSG had offered such an exhibition in Munich that Inter seemed to lift the white flag of surrender. And he lifted her. It is as if he had not left the locker room, scared by what he would have to suffer about the Bavarian lawn. A game festival, with a liquid attack, where Dembélé and Doué exchanged the positions, while Kvarathskhelia was anchored on the left side.
It was as if 'Lucho', as he expressed in his day and called him crazy and arrogant, guided them from the bench with a 'joystick' camouflaged in the brain clairvoyance of vitinha and a wise young man like João Neves (20 years). He played the PSG: he played, in reality, Luis Enrique. He also played Xana, the daughter of the coach who died six years ago.
If there is perfection in a Champions Final, and with tons of pressure on a club that has spent fortunes without ton or they are, the PSG starred in Munich. 10 years ago, Barça de Messi, Neymar and Luis Suarez reached their last Champions. Barça del Trident, with Rakitic and Iniesta offering a lesson of calm and football. And the PSG drew a wonderful work of art in Munich achieving the biggest difference – with goals – in a Champions Final.
Simone Inzaghi, the inter coach, hugs with Luis Enrique, the PSG coach, before the Champions League final starts in Munich. / Efe / Friedemann Vogel
That night of Berlin (June 6, 2015) did not need 'Lucho' or mark Leo. Origin and final of a legend group. Rakitic (1-0, m. 4), Luis Suarez (2-1, m. 68 to overcome Morata's draw) and Neymar (m. 90+7) made the Asturian play the moon. That Barça signed 18 shots, 8 on the door against Juventus. And this PSG had already made 13 shots in the first 45 minutes and five on the door.
Champion and without Mbappé
He was crushing Inter, who left dry and exhausted. Just two shots of the Italian team in the first part and none on the door, a sign of the impotence with which Inzaghi drowned, the technician who did not know how to deactivate the mass destruction bomb built by Luis Enrique in record time: two years, semifinal of Champions with Mbappé and champion without Kylian.
And Paris delivered as never never to an Asturian coach, who loves to use the bicycle to go to Poissy, the ultramodern sports city of the French team. The guy who committed his word a few months ago announcing that the PSG would be much better without the star signing of Madrid. The facts and, above all, his players have proved the Asturian right.
Luis Enrique, the PSG coach, celebrates one of the goals to Inter in the Champions League final in Munich. / AFP / Tobias Schwarz
A technician who had to live a long wait from Berlin. So long that it has lasted a decade. Ten years in which, in addition, he suffered a terrible family drama with the death of his daughter. He metabolized, and in public, that pain to turn it into the engine of his life. He felt, and he explained that, he had to nail a flag in the center of the grass of the Allianz as he did in the Berlin Olympic. Then, Xana wore the 'eight' that belonged to Iniesta. And in Munich it was his father who placed the flag.
The pride of 'Lucho'
It was the flag of good football, based on possession, capable of signing, however, goals with very different records. The 1-0 made Luis Enrique feel proud because Vitinha's patience, excellent passed his, who torn the defense of Inter, Own the internship of Doué. Sometimes, the penultimate pass is much more valuable than assistance.
DOUE celebrates 2-0 against Inter. / Afp
And as proof that the PSG is an indecipherable team that first was scored by Hakimi, disguised as a center striker. What did the right side playing 'nine'? And Pacho! The Ecuadorian saved an impossible ball and there started the 2-0 counterattack signed by Doué, a 19-year-old, who, curiously, signed last summer to replace Mbappé.
What to say vitinha in 3-0! His driving and Dembélé's pause stepping on the ball for the play, another, from Doué. Or the assistance, poisonous and deep of Ousmane, for the 4-0 that brought the signing of Kvarathskhelia. 5-0 was missing, signed by Mayulu.
And Luis, happy and proud, discovered what he feels when the moon is touched and for the second time. The last 4-0 in a 1994 European Cup final and occurred in Milan. There were the ruins of the 'Dream Team' of Cruyff, massacred by Milan. Triplet with Barça for Luis Enrique. And Triplet with the PSG, the first team that wins a Champions League final for five goals difference.