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Right, that concludes this live blog. As always, a big thank you for joining us. The match report will drop in here shortly, as eyes turn towards the Bayern Munich v Flamengo match later on.
Paris Saint-Germain march on, and Inter Miami are heading home. Thanks again, peace out. Here is that report via Sid Lowe.
Updated at 15.33 EDT
Inter Miami head coach Javier Mascherano is speaking to DAZN:
We saw the difference between the teams. We’re very proud of the guys, they worked hard, they tried to play. I think we have to look forward because that was a great experience for us.
We played well during this tournament. We knew today was going to be very difficult as they’re probably the best team in the world.
England have thrashed Jamaica 7-0 in the women’s international friendly tonight. So not much in the way of competitive or close football to bring you, sadly, as of yet today.
Paris Saint-Germain’s trophy haul for the year is already quite impressive.
Ligue 1 champions, Coupe de France holders, Champions League winners. Will Enrique’s PSG add Club World Cup champions to their list of 2024-25 honours? You would struggle to bet against them on current form.
ShareFT: Paris Saint-Germain 4-0 Inter Miami
It’s done and dusted. PSG did the damage in the first half courtesy of João Neves’s double, an own goal from Inter Miami’s hapless defender Tomás Avilés and Achraf Hakimi’s strike. The MLS outfit had little answer to the attacking brilliance and relentless pressing from the Parisians, although they did produce an improved second half showing, albeit with PSG’s feet off the gas somewhat.
Luis Enrique’s side will meet either Flamengo or Bayern Munich in the last eight. Lionel Messi and his Miami teammates have gone out of the Club World Cup with a bit of a whimper.
90 mins: We’re heading into just two minutes of added time, as PSG open up once more, looking to a fifth to really rub salt into the wounds of Messi and co.
Into the wall from Messi! All that buildup came to nothing…
87 mins: Oooh, Miami have a free-kick 20 yards out, central, slightly to the right. Step forward, Leo.
Lionel Messi fires at goal for Inter Miami. Photograph: Carl Recine/FIFA/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 13.54 EDT
86 mins: Jordi Alba has come more into the game in the second half. He was anonymous as an attacking force in the early stages, pinned back by PSG’s attacking brilliance.
84 mins: Dembélé has looked like a player coming back from injury. A pass or two, or three, has gone awry. You wouldn’t expect him to show such sluggishness as this tournament wears on and he regains full fitness.
82 mins: PSG have done a decent job of managing the game, having done more than enough in the first half to build a formidable lead. They’re now in keep-ball mode.
Inter Miami’s tank looks to be emptying fast.
80 mins: And Messi does go close! This time it’s a forceful header that forces Donnarumma into a decent save – one you’d expect the Italian to make, in fairness.
I wouldn’t be shocked if Messi got himself on the scoresheet here.
78 mins: As I was putting in that email from Kári, Messi got the ball and found Suárez with a neat volleyed pass … it brought nothing more than a corner, though.
An email from Kári Tulinius :
It happens to all footballers, and all the rest of us too, but Messi has resisted so long looking old. But in this match he’s looked old. Mind you, he might well set up two in quick succession and then score a brace to equalise, but I’d be surprised if he did, and that never surprised me before.
76 mins: I’d be giving the ‘Superior Player of the Match’ award to João Neves, but that’s just me, and for what it’s worth I wouldn’t be naming it ‘Superior Player of the Match’.
75 mins: That’s not a terrible header from Allende after Miami keep it alive down the left and cross it in, but Donnarumma makes a straightforward stop.
Cremaschi is on for Segovia for the Herons.
73 mins: Falcon clattered into his own goalkeeper there. Ustari has gone down a few times today, but he seems OK.
He’s probably just sick of picking the ball out of his net.
71 mins: PSG now have five players on the pitch who you could classify as wingers:
Barcola, Dembélé, Kvaratskhelia, Doué and Lee. Crazy.
69 mins: Oh brilliant stuff from PSG, Dembélé and Barcola involved along with Zaïre-Emery and somehow Barcola has skied the finish.
Enrique is going to change his full-backs, with Lucas Hernández and Lee Kang-In replacing Hakimi and Mendes.
Bradley Barcola fies over the bar! Photograph: Al Bello/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 13.49 EDT
67 mins: Kvaratskhelia was in oceans of room there but the pass was a poor one from Dembélé, who ignored the Georgian and couldn’t find Barcola either.
I suspect we’ll get more goals here, both teams seem to have abandoned the midfield region entirely.
64 mins: End-to-end stuff now, basketball game territory. Kvaratskhelia toys and feints, teasing a curling right-footed shot off target.
63 mins: Messi finally gets a shot on goal. That was sharp stuff, picking up a loose ball and eventually unleashing a left-footed effort, but it never had the power to trouble Donnarumma.
61 mins: We are going to see Ousmane Dembélé for half an hour. Now injury-free, he replaces João Neves, who won’t get the chance to bag a first career hat-trick.
60 mins: Messi drives forward, picks out Luis Suárez, who is keen to get it back to the Argentine with the cutback from the right, but there are so many PSG players scurrying back that Messi can do little to get a shot away.
59 mins: It looks like PSG have regained that hunger and that Inter Miami’s most promising spell is now at an end. From an American perspective, it was all too brief.
57 mins: Doué now eyes goal in a more direct way, drilling a low one from distance that Ustari is equal to.
Barcola then goes close, spinning beautiful away from his man but firing over the top, via a touch from the keeper.
Lionel Messi in action with Desire Doue. Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/ReutersShare
Updated at 13.24 EDT
56 mins: Désiré Doué tries to work his way through another crowd of Inter Miami bodies in their box. It doesn’t quite come off, but the French youngster has been electric in this game.
54 mins: Here come the pink shirts again. Are PSG just going light on their opponents? Hmm, it seems like Miami have upped their intensity. They had to.
They’ve certainly been sharper with their passing tempo.
52 mins: The MLS outfit have arguably shown more in the past six minutes than they did all first half.
They have a corner here, earned after Messi’s shot was deflected, but it comes to little.
50 mins: The crowd want a free-kick as Messi is crowded out by PSG bodies and descend into boos when he doesn’t get it.
Nice for them, I suppose, that he’s had a couple of moments since the resumption.
49 mins: The crowd in Atlanta still come alive whenever Messi gets the ball. And wow, the little genius nearly provides a goal for his long-time teammate Luis Suárez. A mis-touch from the Uruguayan at the vital moment.
47 mins: PSG have begun the second half at walking pace. Insert joke about Messi’s off-the-ball activity.
We’re back under way.
The teams are back out for the second half. Messi is sporting quite a stoic expression, trudging back out slowly for the resumption.
Beraldo and Zaïre-Emery are going to get 45 minutes apiece.
Marquinhos and Ruiz are the men taken off.
It’s 30C, hot, humid and sticky in Atlanta this afternoon, so I wonder whether Luis Enrique will start ringing the changes at half-time, with PSG’s place in the quarter-finals virtually secure already.
How long before this tournament sifts out all the non-European sides? Will we get an all-European semi-final lineup, for example?
We wondered before kick-off how evident the gulf in class between the recently-crowned European champions and an MLS side packed with former greats would be, and we’ve seen an emphatic answer.
Paris Saint-Germain, both off the ball and on it, have exhibited their superiority. In terms of fitness, skill, tactical awareness and attacking flair. They’ve shown in all in spades and Inter Miami, for whom Lionel Messi has been peripheral to say the least, have been submissive. It’s 4-0 and it could get ugly, this one.
ShareGOAL! PSG 4-0 Inter Miami (Hakimi, 45+3)
Goodness me, they’ve scored another!
Hakimi should have buried his first effort there, after Barcola squared it to the Moroccan off the right. His initial shot came off the woodwork, via the goalkeeper but the second was tucked safely away.
And that’s half-time.
Achraf Hakimi makes it four! Photograph: Carl Recine/FIFA/Getty ImagesShare
Updated at 12.52 EDT
Three added minutes for Inter Miami to survive. Oh, and another 45 plus after that of course.
ShareGOAL! PSG 3-0 Inter Miami (Avilés OG, 44)
The answer is yes! Désiré Doué’s cross ends up in the net after more sharp stuff down the PSG right. The final touch came off Fabian Ruiz, though he may not have known much about it.
No, it was an own goal from Tomás Avilés. What a miserable few minutes he’s had since coming on.
Tomas Aviles puts into his own net for 3-nil to PSG. Photograph: Kai Pfaffenbach/ReutersShare
Updated at 12.48 EDT
43 mins: More PSG pressure as the first half nears a conclusion. Can they put this firmly to bed?
40 mins: Is that game over already? It feels like it, the way this game has gone. Inter Miami need a miracle. Luckily, they do have a miracle-maker in their ranks …
ShareGOAL! PSG 2-0 Inter Miami (Neves, 39)
Walked into the net and Neves has two! Too easy. Nice and unselfish from Fabian Ruiz to square for the Portuguese, who simply could not miss.
Again it came from a fierce Paris Saint-Germain press which has overwhelmed Inter Miami throughout the half.
Joao Neves scores the second for PSG. To say this game is a mismatch is an understatement. Photograph: Amanda Perobelli/ReutersShare
Updated at 12.45 EDT
36 mins: If Inter Miami can reach half-time sanctuary with the scoreline still 1-0, I suspect Mascherano and his staff will be delighted. Time for another PSG corner.
Close for Nuno Mendes? Well, the offside flag went up in the end, but the full-back was played through and rounded Ustari, before seeing his shot cleared off the line. Perhaps he’ll be thankful for the flag.