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PSG thump 10-man Atletico in searing heat

That is the end of this live page but you don’t have to wait long for the next one as we will be live again at 19:00 BST on Monday as Chelsea start their campaign with a match against Major League Soccer side Los Angeles FC.

Until next time, bye for now.

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BBC Sport journalist

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Newly crowned European champions Paris St-Germain cruised past Atletico Madrid for a winning start to their first ever Fifa Club World Cup campaign.

The French side dominated the early stages in searing heat at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, enjoying 82.6% possession in the first 15 minutes.

They led when Fabian Ruiz rifled a low strike into the bottom corner from the edge of the penalty area.

Portuguese striker Goncalo Ramos missed the target with three attempts, before Vitinha drifted through the middle of the Atletico defence just before half-time and slotted past Jan Oblak to put his side in firm control.

Oblak kept his side in the game by tipping Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s bending strike on to the crossbar minutes after the restart, before Julian Alvarez had a goal disallowed for a foul by Koke on Desire Doue in the build-up.

Atletico were reduced to 10 men in bizarre circumstances in the 78th minute when Clement Lenglet was shown a second yellow card for dissent after referee Istvan Kovacs failed to act when Oblak was impeded while attempting to roll the ball out.

Diego Simeone’s side should have pulled a goal back eight minutes from time, but substitute Alexander Sorloth missed an open goal from a few yards when a low cross found him at the far post.

Substitute Senny Mayulu followed up his goalscoring cameo in last month’s Champions League final by firing into the bottom corner in the 87th minute.

There was drama in added time as Ibrahim Mbaye hit the post for PSG, before Atleti defender Robin le Normand was punished for handball by the video assistant referee (VAR) and Lee Kang-in slotted home the penalty for his side’s fourth goal.

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Former England goalkeeper on DAZN

It is as much of a statement as the Champions League final was. This is one saying they are going onto new ground and someone is going to have to do something special to stop this team.

That penalty is the last action of the match. European champions PSG start their Club World Cup campaign with an emphatic 4-0 win over 10-man Atletico Madrid.

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A cool penalty from Lee Kang-in, he sends Jan Oblak the wrong way and PSG have four goals.

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Atletico Madrid’s Giuliano Simeone is judged to have handled as he charged down a shot. The arm was in an ‘unnatural position’, although he was so close to the strike so couldn’t really get out of the way.

Seventeen-year-old substitute Ibrahim Mbaye wriggles free of a challenge and gets a shot away, but it bounces off the left-hand upright. Was there a handball straight afterwards though? We have a VAR check for a possible penalty and Istvan Kovacs does the ‘I’m-going-to-watch-on-a-monitor’ gesture.

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Former England goalkeeper on DAZN

He [Diego Simeone] knew there was goals in this PSG team but he didn’t know how intense they could have been with the heat and jetlag. It has been well managed by PSG since Atletico Madrid had that goal disallowed.

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Substitute Senny Mayulu scored the fifth goal in PSG’s 5-0 win over Inter Milan in the Champions League final and he has the third here.

Atletico fail to clear the danger and the ball drops to Mayulu, whose brother Fally plays for Championship Bristol City, and he lashes home past Jan Oblak.

Three goals, three points.

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Former England goalkeeper on DAZN

[On Sorloth’s miss] you won’t see another one like this in the tournament. He [Diego Simeone] drops to his knees, the crowd drop to their knees and we drop to our knees.

He won’t score an easier goal all tournament. The crowd is stunned.

That is a bad miss!

Substitute Alexander Sorloth has the ball put on a plate for him and he is unmarked and in the six-yard box, but can only fire wastefully over the top.

His Atletico boss Diego Simeone can’t believe his eyes, throwing himself to his knees.

That was a route back into the match, but not taken.

Marcus William: Got to be the worst game of the tournament so far. The amount of diving and complaining to the referee from two top teams is embarrassing. What happened to the new rule of only the captain can speak to the ref?

Clement Lenglet was booked early in the first half and gets the worst kind of second yellow – for talking himself into trouble after referee Istvan Kovacs had not given Atletico a foul when goalkeeper Jan Oblak seemed to be impeded.

The ex-Tottenham and Aston Villa defender is off and probably any hopes of Atletico salvaging this match go off with him.

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Former England goalkeeper on DAZN

It’s interesting the substitutions PSG have made. Lee Kang-in and Warren Zaire-Emery coming on, two very comfortable players on the ball.

When Atletico Madrid are looking to get the game into a fight, PSG’s response is to just keep the ball and keep passing.

Diego Simeone is absolutely furious his side Atletico have not won a free-kick. He has every reason to be annoyed as Nuno Mendes is on the ground after being tackled and flicks the ball away from an Atletico man with his hand.

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Former England goalkeeper on DAZN

One argument you’d have against them [PSG] is that they do have that tendency to have a wobble in the big games. This is what Atletico Madrid are trying to do, manufacture a wobble of sorts.

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A Mexican Wave, normally the sign the on-pitch entertainment is not too good, works its way around the Rose Bowl. There looked a lot of empty seats when the players walked out at the start of the match, but there looks a very, very decent attendance in the ground now.

As the fans entertain themselves, the players take a cooling break, 25 minutes into the second half after they had one after 30 minutes of the first half.

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A flurry of bookings. Marquinhos is yellow carded for PSG and Atletico Madrid substitutes Angel Correa and Reinildo, who have only just come on, make an instant impact – in the wrong way and get bookings.

Ex-Chelsea midfielder Conor Gallagher is also on for Atletico, but not been booked yet.

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Atletico think they have a goal back. Desire Doue loses possession, Atletico seemingly take advantage as the ball is fed to Julian Alvarez and he flicks the ball low past Gianluigi Donnarumma.

But it goes to VAR and referee Istvan Kovacs is advised to watch the incident again on a pitchside monitor.

“Do you hear me?” he starts his announcement to the crowd.

He continues: “After the on-field review, number six from Atletico Madrid (Koke) committed a free-kick, goal cancelled.”

Having seen it again, Koke had barged and tripped Doue.

Atletico have the ball in the net, but will it count?

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Alex Brotherton

BBC Sport journalist

Newly crowned European champions Paris St-Germain cruised past Atletico Madrid for a winning start to their first ever Fifa Club World Cup campaign.

The French side dominated the early stages in searing heat in front of an 80,619-strong crowd at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, enjoying 82.6% possession in the first 15 minutes.

They led when Fabian Ruiz rifled a low strike into the bottom corner from the edge of the penalty area.

Portuguese striker Goncalo Ramos missed the target with three attempts, before Vitinha drifted through the middle of the Atletico defence just before half-time and slotted past Jan Oblak to put his side in firm control.

Oblak kept his side in the game by tipping Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s bending strike on to the crossbar minutes after the restart, before Julian Alvarez had a goal disallowed for a foul by Koke on Desire Doue in the build-up.

Atletico were reduced to 10 men in bizarre circumstances in the 78th minute when Clement Lenglet was shown a second yellow card for dissent after referee Istvan Kovacs failed to act when Oblak was impeded while attempting to roll the ball out.

Diego Simeone’s side should have pulled a goal back eight minutes from time, but substitute Alexander Sorloth missed an open goal from a few yards when a low cross found him at the far post.

Substitute Senny Mayulu followed up his goalscoring cameo in last month’s Champions League final by firing into the bottom corner in the 87th minute.

There was drama in added time as Ibrahim Mbaye hit the post for PSG, before Atleti defender Robin le Normand was punished for handball by the video assistant referee (VAR) and Lee Kang-in slotted home the penalty for his side’s fourth goal.

What was the main talking point?

With the match kicking off at midday local time, players and fans were subjected to blazing sunshine as the temperature reached 31C in Pasadena.

Fifa’s decision to schedule 35 of the 63 games earlier than 17:00 local time has raised eyebrows, not least from world players’ union Fifpro.

It believes Fifa’s guidelines on cooling breaks “do not do enough to protect the health and performance of players”. One cooling break is permitted in each half if the ‘wet bulb globe temperature’ (WBGT) – a measure of heat stress combining heat and humidity – reaches 32C.

Sunday’s match contained two cooling breaks, which many of the players spent with towels covering their heads.

After the match PSG midfielder and player of the match Vitinha described the playing conditions as “difficult”, while manager Luis Enrique said the heat “had an impact on the game.”

With the 2026 World Cup held in the US, Canada and Mexico a year from now, the issue of playing in potentially dangerous temperatures will continue to cause concern.

What information do we collect from this quiz?

Who stood out?

Vitinha continued his career-best campaign with another excellent performance at the heart of the PSG midfield.

The 25-year-old took his goal well too, showing great awareness and ambition to spot the hole in the Atleti defence, drive forward and calmly place the ball past the outstretched Oblak.

While Kvaratskhelia did register two assists, both were simple passes that preceded brilliance from Vitinha and Fabian Ruiz.

The Georgian winger struggled to make more of an impact, with his only real moment of quality denied a goal by Oblak.

Julian Alvarez was his usual lively self for Atletico, but the Argentine striker lacked service to cause more problems. With minimal fuss he took the main chance that fell his way, only to see VAR rule it out because of Koke’s foul.

The standout stats

PSG started the 2024-25 season poorly, but after Christmas things clicked and they won the Treble of Champions League, Ligue 1 and the French Cup.

Their improvement has been so dramatic that 103 of the 154 goals Luis Enrique’s side have scored this season have come since the start of the calendar year.

What’s next for these teams?

PSG face Botafogo in their second Group B game in Pasadena on Friday, 20 June (02:00 BST), a few hours after Atletico take on Seattle Sounders in Seattle on Thursday, 19 June (23:00 BST)

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Player of the match

Vitinha

star.63d2406f0f.svg7.39

17 Vitinha

7.39

8 Fabián Ruiz

7.35

7 K. Kvaratskhelia

7.13

2 A. Hakimi

6.93

25 Nuno Mendes

6.87

24 S. Mayulu

6.85

19 Lee Kang-In

6.84

14 D. Doué

6.77

1 G. Donnarumma

6.65

5 Marquinhos

6.63

33 W. Zaïre-Emery

6.63

87 João Neves

6.58

21 L. Hernández

6.44

9 Gonçalo Ramos

6.40

49 I. Mbaye

6.34

51 W. Pacho

6.22

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19 J. Alvarez

6.85

13 J. Oblak

6.66

4 C. Gallagher

6.26

24 Robin Le Normand

5.97

22 G. Simeone

5.97

21 Javi Galán

5.90

14 Marcos Llorente

5.77

5 R. De Paul

5.68

9 A. Sørloth

5.66

15 C. Lenglet

5.65

6 Koke

5.55

8 Pablo Barrios

5.48

10 Á. Correa

5.43

7 A. Griezmann

5.42

12 Samuel Lino

5.33

23 Reinildo

5.33

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