Holders Paris Saint-Germain take on newly crowned Premier League champions Arsenal in the 2026 Champions League final, staged in Budapest. PSG are out to become just the second team since the competition’s rebranding in 1992 to retain their crown. Real Madrid, who three-peated between 2016 and 2018, are the only team to win the Champions League as holders. The Parisians thumped Inter Milan 5–0 in last year’s final , and are now colliding with the team they bypassed to reach the showpiece event in Munich. Arsenal succumbed 3–1 on aggregate to Luis Enrique’s swashbuckling outfit in the semifinals, but have since evolved into a more rounded team emboldened by finally achieving domestic glory. The 2025–26 season was all about the Premier League title for the Gunners, having suffered three consecutive second-place finishes. They kept their cool down the stretch to hold off Manchester City and conquer the English top flight for the first time in 22 years. For PSG, it was business as usual domestically.…