PSG vs Arsenal 2-1: UEFA Champions League semifinal – as it happened

Thanks for joining us as PSG knocked out Arsenal in an enthralling Champions League semifinal in Paris.

We will have plenty of other sport coverage soon – including Thursday’s match between Manchester United and Athletic Club, and Real Madrid against Barcelona in LaLiga on Sunday.

But for now, from Kevin Hand and Patrick Keddie, goodbye!

Manchester United take centre stage on Thursday as they look to complete their passage to the final of the Europa League.

The Red Devils hold a 3-0 lead following the first leg of their semifinal against Athletic Club in Bilbao.

Do join us for all the action from Old Trafford, with all the usual build-up and analysis in advance of our live text and photo commentary stream.

Click here for our full match report following the match in Paris.

“It’s gutting. Such a dominant start – if you score one of those chances, then the game turns on its head,” the Arsenal midfielder told TNT Sports 1.

“It’s the small margins in football. Two mistakes from us and two goals for them. With the chances we have missed, it felt like it wasn’t meant to be.

“Over the two legs, we could have scored three or four more goals.

“Sometimes, you have to lose a few to win, you have to overcome some of these setbacks to grow as a player and a team.

“We are going through that game at the moment, in terms of losing out on the league and the Champions League.

“We are growing as a team, but we need to keep pushing and believing. This is why we play. There will be setbacks on the way.

“PSG have gone through, but this isn’t going to define us. We’ll be back and we’ll get our players back and will be a much stronger outfit.

“We’ve played the whole season without five or six of our best players, to be where we are and do what we have done is unbelievable – I fully stand by that.

“We’ve given it everything, the whole squad has. We fully believed we could win, we put on a performance, and on another night, we score two or three.

“We are all desperate for it. We want to win trophies and be at the pinnacle of football, winning stuff.

“It’s not good enough because Arsenal are a club that deserve to win trophies.”

“First of all, congratulations to PSG for reaching the final,” the Arsenal manager told TNT Sports.

“The assessment? I will make it when I am a little bit cooler, but the feedback straightaway from their bench is that we were much better than them.

“When you look at the two games, the best player on the pitch has been their goalkeeper. He has made a difference for them in the tie.

“I think we were much closer than the results showed. I am very proud of the players, the way we handled the pressure, and after 20 minutes, it should have been 3-0.

“We are not there, and that has to hurt. If we want to win this competition, we need to realise that there are certain things on us. We should not just be ‘understanding’ that we are out.

“I don’t think there has been a better team in the competition than us, but we deserve much more in both games.

“This competition is about the boxes and that is about the strikers, most of the time, and the goalkeepers – and he was their best player.

“I’m so proud of the boys, and they deserve a lot of credit for what they are doing in the context and the situation, and with the amount of injuries.

“We arrived here in the worst state. You have to get here with everyone fit and with rest. We came here in a completely different context, and that gives me a lot of positivity for the future.”

As a PSG vs Inter final awaits, it means that the Champions League final will be contested without a team from the Premier League, LaLiga, or the Bundesliga for the first time since 2004.

Porto, under a young manager named Jose Mourinho, beat Monaco in that final to lift the trophy.

“It was a really solid performance, capped with a very good goal,” the UEFA Technical Observer Group said of the performance by the Morocco international, who scored PSG’s winner.

Hakimi also had more touches than any other player on the pitch.

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— Paris Saint-Germain (@PSG_English) May 7, 2025

4 – Arsenal have now failed to progress from each of their last four major cup semi-finals (2020-21 Europa League, 2021-22 League Cup, 2024-25 League Cup, 2024-25 Champions League) – their longest ever run at this stage of competitions. Stumbling. pic.twitter.com/jBpigx4MKI

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) May 7, 2025

3.14 – Arsenal produced an xG of 3.14 tonight, the most by a team against Paris SG in a UEFA Champions League game this season. Their 19 shots were also their most in a knockout match since having 20 away at Barcelona in March 2016. Valiant. pic.twitter.com/EFDWkeggkK

— OptaJoe (@OptaJoe) May 7, 2025

Arsenal played well, they just couldn’t create enough against the hosts and were always vulnerable to counterattacks.

PSG, meanwhile, look seriously good all over the pitch and will likely be favourites to lift the trophy for the first time when they play Inter in the final at the end of May.

PSG will face Inter Milan in the final after seeing off a spirited Arsenal side.

The visitors took the game to PSG as they looked to overturn a 1-0 first leg deficit but went into the first half 1-0 down on the night after Fabian Ruiz opened the scoring for PSG.

Vitinha missed a second half penalty for PSG, but the home side soon made it 2-0 through a wonderful strike by Hakimi on 72 minutes.

Saka soon pulled one back for Arsenal and missed a golden opportunity to equalise, but the Gunners could not breach PSG’s defences again.

Arsenal release Saka down the right, he puts in a cross but it’s intercepted and PSG clear.

Partey takes a long throw, but that is hacked clear and the referee blows for full time, PSG are in the final!!

Full-time: PSG 2-1 Arsenal (3-1 on agg)

Another long throw into the box by Partey, again PSG deal with it with Donnarumma gathering gratefully.

90+4 mins: PSG 2-1 Arsenal

White checks onto his left and sends a cross into the box. Merino rises to meet it and heads it on, but no one’s at the back post for Arsenal, and it drifts out for a PSG goal kick.

90+2 mins: PSG 2-1 Arsenal

Arsenal need to score right about now as they trail 3-1 on aggregate.

90+1 mins: PSG 2-1 Arsenal

Partey hits a deep cross into the box, but White heads well wide under pressure from Hernandez.

The PSG sub celebrates that bit of defending wildly with Donnarumma by bumping chests.

89 mins: PSG 2-1 Arsenal

PSG make a change, as Ramos comes on for Mendes, who was on a yellow.

88 mins: PSG 2-1 Arsenal