Overview
Paris St-Germain still advanced to the 2025 FIFA Club World Cup as the top team in Group B, despite a surprise defeat to Botafogo. The opponent of the reigning Champions League champions will be Inter Miami.
This was a big match mainly due to the presence of former PSG player Lionel Messi in the Inter Miami squad. The Argentine legend has been in good form in the group stage, especially in the impressive 2-1 victory over Porto.
El Pulga hopes to prove his ability against PSG, but he will definitely face a difficult challenge.
Last season's Champions League champions PSG have conceded just one goal in their last five games in all competitions (0-1 against Botofogo), starting in the Coupe de France final. They have also only conceded an expected goals conceded of less than 1.0 in 7 consecutive matches (a total of 3.66, an average of 0.52 per match).
Messi defeated PSG when he was playing for Barcelona. PSG's biggest ever defeat came in a non-domestic match in March 2017 (1-6 in the UEFA Champions League), against a Barcelona side consisting of the trio of Messi, Luis Suarez and Sergio Busquets. Miami coach Rafael Mascherano was also present at the time.
Few people expected that Inter Miami could beat Porto in the group stage, so they will not be completely left behind when facing PSG.
The MLS team is unbeaten in the last 6 matches in all competitions (3 wins, 3 draws), scoring at least 2 goals in 5 matches. However, Miami have only kept a clean sheet once in their last 13 matches and will face PSG, who have scored 107 goals in 38 matches in 2025.
6 different PSG players have scored in the group stage of the FIFA Club World Cup 2025. Their 10 different players also had at least one shot on target, led by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia with 5 times.
Kvaratskhelia has had an unstoppable form at this year's FIFA Club World Cup. He was directly involved in half of PSG's goals (3/6 - 1 goal, 2 assists), and also led all PSG players in the number of opportunities created.
If Inter Miami want to have a chance to get a positive result, they will need Messi to show his best form. He has been directly involved in 7 goals in his previous 9 meetings with PSG (6 goals and 1 assist).
However, 6 of those were appearances for Barcelona under current PSG coach Luis Enrique (3 goals and 1 assist).
Predicting the result
PSG are rated much higher to win this match, with 80.3% according to the Opta supercomputer. Inter Miami only have a 7.2% chance of creating a surprise, the remaining 12.5% is the scenario of the match having to enter extra time.
Predicted result: PSG 3-1 Inter Miami
The match between PSG and Inter Miami takes place at 23:00 on June 29 (Vietnam time).
