PSG look to add fifth trophy against Tottenham
Baku, August 13, AZERTAC
One month after the end of the best season in their history, Paris St-Germain kick off the new one with the chance to win yet another trophy.
According to BBC, the French club won the Treble last season, including their first Champions League trophy, but lost 3-0 to Chelsea in the Club World Cup final in New Jersey last month.
Now the European champions face another London club, as they meet Europa League winners Tottenham in Udine, Italy in the UEFA Super Cup.
Playing fantastic football with a young, hungry squad, PSG blew nearly everyone away in the latter stages of last season with devastating pace, passing and pressing - and look like a team who could dominate for some time to come.
They will hope that Chelsea defeat was just a blip - it came six weeks after they demolished Inter Milan 5-0 in the most one-sided Champions League final ever.
In the US they also won 4-0 against both Madrid sides, Atletico and Real - and saw off Bayern Munich despite ending with nine men.
PSG have the chance to win a joint-record six trophies in a calendar year. Losing to Chelsea ended the opportunity for a historic seven.
Beat Spurs and it would be PSG's sixth trophy of 2025, including the Trophee des Champions - France's version of the Community Shield - in which PSG beat Monaco 1-0 in Doha in January.
The Ligue 1 title was clinched on 5 April, with six games to go, and the club still unbeaten. They lost two of their final four games in the league, but the trophy was already in the bag.
PSG beat Reims 3-0 in the French Cup final to complete a domestic Double - and then beat Inter 5-0 in the Champions League final in Munich to secure the Treble.
If they beat Spurs, they then have the chance for that joint-record sixth piece of silverware when they play one of the other continental champions (who have to fight their way through qualifying rounds) in the FIFA Intercontinental Cup final in December.
Barcelona - in 2009 - and Bayern Munich - in 2020 - are the only two teams to have won six trophies in a calendar year.
That was the maximum either side could win at the time, with the FIFA Club World Cup in its previous form - when it was the continental champions who took part - being considered the forerunner of the Intercontinental Cup.
The new Club World Cup, featuring 32 teams from around the world, is considered to be a new competition - and the seventh piece of silverware now up for grabs each season.
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