PSG – Arsenal

PSG will be closer to victory in regulation time of the final.

The main match of the entire European football season is scheduled in Budapest for the coming Saturday. The reigning Champions League winner PSG, as the nominal host, will meet Arsenal, which has never in its history won the continent's most important trophy. Both clubs approach the meeting as champions of their countries. If the Parisian club, with weak competition in Ligue 1, simply defended the title for the fourth time in a row, then the London side's Premier League title is a historic and far from ordinary achievement for them. The last time Arsenal won the English championship was in 2004, when the great Arsenal squad was led by Thierry Henry, Patrick Vieira, Dennis Bergkamp and other world-famous stars. Almost the entire current Champions League campaign Arsenal played as the tournament favorite, losing ground after the quarterfinal stage. Mikel Arteta's team won the group stage, dropping no points, but in the knockout phase looked less brilliant against PSG, Bayern, and even Barcelona, which had been knocked out early. The Parisian squad, as in the previous season, struggled in the first half of the football year, but from the Round of 16 its form did not raise any concerns. As if Luis Enrique had somehow steered the team through the season and removed all obstacles before the decisive matches. Bookmakers have made the French champions the favorites for the upcoming showdown, offering odds of 2.32 on their victory. Over the past year PSG has collected so many finals that it's hard to imagine. The team participated in the finals of last season's Champions League, the French Cup, the Club World Cup, the European Super Cup, the French Super Cup and the Intercontinental Cup. Only the decisive Club World Cup match was lost, to which PSG players simply ran out of energy. In turn, Arsenal is not a specialist in finals, as Manchester City recently demonstrated in the English League Cup. Experience clearly favors Luis Enrique's team. In addition, Dembele, Dué, Kvaratskhelia, Vitinha, Safonov and other PSG players only reached their peak form in the spring, which they demonstrated in clashes with the monstrous Bayern. At the same time, Arsenal seemed to be scraping through the final stages of the Champions League with their last reserves and grabbing decisive points in the Premier League from not the strongest of its representatives. We'll bet that PSG will be closer to victory in regulation time of the final of Europe's main tournament.