PSG have finally figured out how to win the Champions League - and Europe should be terrified: Winners and losers as Desire Doue and Luis Enrique's young guns secure immortality while Simone Inzaghi's aging Inter stars are shown up on the biggest stage

Luis Enrique had one major selection call to make before the game: Desire Doue or Bradley Barcola on the right wing? Both had been in fine form, but Barcola was coming off the back of a terrific two-goal showing in last week's Coupe de France win over Reims.

However, Luis Enrique went with the 19-year-old Doue, and that decision paid off spectacularly.

Doue made history inside the opening quarter of the game by becoming the youngest player to both score and assist in a Champions League final. When he effectively killed the game as a contest in the second half with a wonderfully composed finish, he became the first player ever to be directly involved in three goals in the fixture.

Consequently, it's genuinely hard to think how Doue can top this performance - but it should be absolutely thrilling watching him try. Indeed, before the game, some neutrals were lamenting the absence of Lamine Yamal from the showpiece, but Doue proved that there's more than one outstanding teenage talent in the game right now.

Federico Dimarco's shoddy defensive work has been a cause of increasing concern this season, and we saw precisely why on the game's opening goal, with Dimarco playing both Doue and Hakimi onside by taking up a far deeper position in the area than any of his team-mates.

There was obviously an element of fortune about PSG's second, as Doue's deflected effort could have gone anywhere, but Dimarco, who was torn to shreds by Yamal in the semi-finals, was once again at fault for cowardly turning his back on the ball.

As a result, Inter became the first team to concede twice in the opening 20 minutes of a Champions League final - and Dimarco was the main reason why.

Achraf Hakimi demonstrated his enduring affection for Inter by refusing to celebrate his 12th-minute tap-in, but that didn't make it that much easier for Nerazzurri supporters to take. The Morocco international rather personifies the vast difference in these two clubs' economic situations, as Inter had to sell Hakimi to PSG in the summer of 2021 in order to balance the books.

Hakimi was a very good player back then - as he proved by winning the Scudetto during his one and only season at San Siro - but he's gone to a whole other level over the past four years.

With his strike in Munich, Hakimi equalled Ian Harte's record for most goal involvements for a defender across a single Champions League campaign (nine), while he was also excellent as ever in defence. There aren't many more complete footballers in the game today and he would be a most worthy recipient of this year's Ballon d'Or (if such prizes were ever given to right-backs!).

This feels like the end of an era at Inter - and it's an awful shame for such a good side that it's come to a conclusion in such crushing circumstances.

Remember, just a few months ago, Inter were chasing a treble of their own, with Simone Inzaghi's men top of Serie A and through to the semi-finals of the Coppa Italia. However, they gifted Napoli the Scudetto on the penultimate matchday, after being humiliated by a painfully average AC Milan side in the Coppa.

The hope was that Inter would end up winning the trophy that mattered most to them, the one they so unluckily missed out on in Istanbul two years ago, but they actually saved the worst for last by turning in an abject display at the Allianz Arena.

The Nerazzurri fielded the third-oldest team in a Champions League final and it showed as they were given a footballing lesson by a team five years younger than them (the biggest average age gap we've ever seen in this particular fixture).

What happens next is hard to say. Inzaghi admitted himself that he's received offers from elsewhere, so there's no guarantee that he'll still be at Inter next season. It's also clear that several senior players will never get another chance to grace the club game's grandest stage.

Time effectively caught up with Inter - and before they could win the title their efforts over the past three years deserved.

This was meant to happen about a decade ago, not long after Qatari Sports Investment (QSI) took over Paris Saint-Germain, but the agonising and often-painful wait will only have made this success taste all the sweeter.

And besides, had PSG not been repeatedly punished for their 'bling-bling' approach to team-building, they never would have changed tack and prioritised potential over superstars.

Indeed, whatever one thinks about the Qatari sports-washing project at Parc des Princes, the club can at least be commended for putting together an exciting and wonderfully well-balanced side led by the very likeable Luis Enrique, who has written himself into the record books by becoming just the second coach to win a treble with two different European clubs.

PSG obviously aren't plucky underdogs. So many of these fantastic young players cost an awful lot of money to sign. But if this was an undeniable triumph for oil money, it was also a more palatable victory for exuberance over experience.

Given their youth, in fact, this PSG team could actually get even better - which is a terrifying prospect for the rest of Europe. It may have taken QSI 14 years to win a first European Cup for PSG but, right now, it doesn't feel like their second will require anywhere near as much patience.

What must Kylian Mbappe be thinking right now? The Real Madrid forward will no doubt be pleased for some of his former team-mates, chief among them Ousmane Dembele.

However, Mbappe will doubtless be feeling more than a little envy and maybe also a few pangs of regret. The boy from Bondy was meant to lead his hometown club to their first European Cup success. Instead, they've won it at the end of their first season without him - and that's got to sting.

Remember, Luis Enrique said all along that PSG would be better without Mbappe, and they proved that in the most scintillating fashion possible on Saturday.