PSG will edge Arsenal in a Champions League classic – with one key caveat

Opinion May 30, 2026 — 5:00am Are London’s streets about to host another party, or will the defending champions cement European greatness? So much is riding on this Champions League final for both Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain. So much ambition can be realised and lost in a single game in Budapest in the early hours on Sunday.

PSG will edge Arsenal in a Champions League classic – with one key caveat. Opinion May 30, 2026 — 5:00am Are London’s streets about to host another party, or will the defending champions cement European greatness? So much is riding on this Champions League final for both Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain. So much ambition can be realised and lost in a single game in Budapest in the early hours on Sunday. Mikel Arteta, having just secured Arsenal’s first English Premier League title since in 2004, now has the chance to achieve what even Arsene Wenger’s Invincibles could not. To mend the little piece of Gunners hearts still broken by the 2006 near-miss: that 2-1 loss to Barcelona at the Stade de France. Twenty years on, a first taste of Europe’s premier prize is within reach once more. All that stands in the way is the continent’s most unstop...