The match is barely over. On the pitch of the stadium in Kuwait City, where the Parisians have just won the Champions Trophy against OM after an excruciating suspense and a controlled penalty shootout thanks to the performance of Lucas Chevalier in the cages (2-2, 4-1 tab), scenes of joy are multiplying between PSG players. The happiness is total. A victory against the Marseillais, the best enemy, is always a moment with a special flavor.
Drunk with happiness, Marquinhos, after hugging partners and members of the Parisian staff, walks towards a club camera to communicate his emotions and send a message. ” What do we tell ? What do we tell ? Champion my brother… They thought they were going to win.” The message has been sent, scathing!
After his slipped tackle, the Parisian captain, laughing, slipped away to join his partners and celebrate this new title. The 14th in this competition and the 1st in 2026.
The PSG captain, who had already set the tone for this duel at a press conference by proclaiming that this match was “the time to put things back in place”, therefore kept his word. But he’s not the only one having doubts. He is imitated a few minutes later by Nuno Mendès.
The Parisian full-back, who does not have a short memory, has not forgotten the affront of the defeat (1-0) at the Vélodrome in September in Ligue 1. Above all, he still has the message that followed from Marseillais Leonardo Balerdi stuck in his windpipe. On his networks, the latter had published a series of photos of the victory accompanied by a scathing caption: “In our stadium, in our way”.
The time for revenge had therefore arrived for the Parisian Portuguese who did not fail to respond to his opponent on his networks. “Try it next time,” Mendès wrote in Spanish, replacing the “a” in Balerdi with a ball and the “i” with a trophy… That of the Champions that PSG had just won.
