2026-05-29 10:45:53
Luis Enrique feels that PSG “deserve” to win the Champions League this season.
The French giants will look to make it back-to-back victories in Europe’s biggest competition when they face Arsenal in the final in Budapest on Saturday (30.05.26) and the coach feels that his team would be worthy winners after seeing off stern opposition to reach the showpiece.
Asked if there was less pressure to win the trophy this season, Enrique told UEFA.com: “I’d say there was more pressure last season because everyone was like, ‘This is it! We can’t lose this time!’
“This time around, there is pressure because we believe we deserve it, based on our run through the competition and all the other teams that we’ve seen off along the way.
“We came through the play-off round, we had the worst draw out of the 36 teams. Following the process of everything we’ve experienced and everything we’ve improved over the course of the season, we’re finishing it off with this final, and our aim is obviously to win it, to round off the season in a positive way.”
Enrique led PSG to their first-ever Champions League success in 2025 but stressed that he wants to continue making history for the club.
The Spanish manager – who is looking for his third triumph in the competition after winning with Barcelona in 2015 – said: “When you win titles like we did last year, when nobody expected us to, there’s a feeling of joy and pride, and even now that feeling is still there. It’s not simply that we won a Champions League and made history with Paris because that was what we wanted. I arrived at the club thinking, ‘My objective is to make history’, and we have indeed made history, but that chapter is closed now.
“We want to keep writing the story because we believe there’s still more there for us to achieve and that’s wonderful, rewarding, stimulating, exciting, especially when you realise that, through your hard work, you can make people you’ve never even met happy, whether just for a few moments or for much longer.”
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