4 min readKolkataApr 29, 2026 12:17 PM IST Nine goals in 90 minutes. The scoreline tells you something. It doesn’t tell you everything. What made Tuesday night at the Parc des Princes worth remembering wasn’t the volume of goals but the manner of them — teams playing through each other rather than around each other, forward lines treating the space behind the defensive line as their natural habitat. When they were drawn together in the semis, the goals they had scored to get there suggested something like this. It still had to be lived through to be believed. The first half Kane’s penalty in the 17th minute was the opening statement — composed, inevitable, the kind of finish that carries no visible effort. Kvaratskhelia answered seven minutes later, bursting down the left and curling one past Neuer with the conviction of a man who had seen the gap before the ball arrived. Joao Neves put PSG ahead with a header in the 33rd — arriving at the back post at exactly the right moment, the …