Paris Saint-Germain and Inter Miami faced off this Sunday at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium in the Round of 16 of the 2025 Club World Cup. The match ended in a 4-0 Parisian victory (PSG/Inter Miami highlights). After the match, the US team’s 38-year-old striker Lionel Messi spoke to DSports. He was delighted with his side’s World Cup campaign, which could only end against PSG.
Messi “we couldn’t fight back”.
The idea was to be competitive, to live up to what this moment meant. I don’t know what people expected of us in this World Cup, with the group we had, but I think we rose to the occasion. We gave it our all. That should serve us well for what’s really important for us, which is what’s coming up.
I’m delighted that we’ve been able to take part in this Club World Cup, that we’ve been able to be competitive. Of course, we’re in another league, another level, and we couldn’t compete. Today, we played against a team that had just won a Champions League final against Inter Milan – I don’t remember if it was 4 or 5-0.
They’re undoubtedly the best team in the world today, and it’s only natural that it should have gone that way.
