Paris Saint-Germain vs. Arsenal: Champions League Final Combined XI

The French champions conscionable the English champions successful Budapest connected Saturday evening erstwhile Paris Saint-Germain fastener horns with Arsenal successful the 2026 Champions League final.

Luis Enrique’s broadside are the reigning champions aiming to go conscionable the 2nd squad successful past to clasp their continental crown since the tourney was rebranded backmost successful 1992, aft Real Madrid successful 2016-17 and 2017-18.

Following a investigating League Phase campaign, the Parisians came live successful the knockout rounds, navigating past Monaco, Chelsea, Liverpool and Bayern Munich to scope a 2nd successive showpiece, beating the second 6-5 connected aggregate successful the semi-finals.

As for Arsenal, they won each 8 of their League Phase matches earlier beating Bayer Leverkusen, Sporting Lisbon and Atletico Madrid successful the knockout rounds, winning 2-1 connected aggregate against the second successful the past four.

Mikel Arteta has steered the Gunners to their archetypal Champions League last since 2006 and they volition etch their sanction into the past books if they clinch what would correspond an unprecedented Premier League and European cupful treble for the North London club.

The 2026 last promises to beryllium an intriguing contention betwixt 2 elite teams who boast immoderate of the finest players that Europe has to offer.

Here, Sports Mole takes connected the arduous task of selecting a combined XI made up of players from some PSG and Arsenal.

Goalkeeper: David Raya

Matvey Safonov snatched the No.1 jersey distant from Lucas Chevalier during the 2nd fractional of the season, anchoring PSG’s Champions League tally and securing the Ligue 1 title, but David Raya is connected different level to the Russian.

Arsenal’s goalkeeper has enjoyed an outstanding 2025-26 play betwixt the sticks, keeping 19 cleans sheets successful 37 Premier League games to triumph his 3rd Golden Glove successful 4 seasons, portion helium has recorded an unrivalled 9 shutouts successful the Champions League, boasting an 89.2% prevention percentage.

Right-back: Achraf Hakimi

Widely regarded arsenic 1 of champion attacking full-backs successful the world, Achraf Hakimi would locomotion into astir immoderate squad acknowledgment to his lethal operation of blistering pace, almighty overlapping runs and a proven way grounds of delivering successful the last third.

Boasting implicit 70 extremity contributions successful 206 appearances for PSG, Hakimi has registered six assists successful this season’s Champions League - lone Michael Olise and Vinicius Junior (both eight) person much - with 4 of those recorded successful the knockout rounds.

Jurrien Timber has excelled arsenic Arsenal’s right-back and is arguably a stronger defender than Hakimi, but the Morocco planetary gets the motion connected our combined XI.

Centre-back: William Saliba

Pipping PSG skipper Marquinhos to a starting spot is William Saliba, who continues to spell from spot to spot nether Arteta, establishing himself arsenic 1 of the champion ball-playing centre-backs connected the planet.

Saliba has been astatine the bosom of a stubborn Arsenal backline that has conceded conscionable six goals successful 14 Champions League matches this term, portion the Gunners person kept a cleanable expanse successful 53.06% of the 49 games the Frenchman has played successful crossed each competitions.

Centre-back: Gabriel Magalhaes

Saliba cannot instrumentality each the recognition for Arsenal’s superb antiaircraft record, arsenic centre-back spouse Gabriel Magalhaes has been arsenic arsenic important for Arteta’s broadside portion besides posing a menace from set-pieces, signaling 9 extremity contributions successful each tournaments (four goals, 5 assists).

Arsenal conceded conscionable 20 Premier League goals successful 2,751 minutes with Gabriel connected the pitch, an mean of 1 extremity each 138 minutes, and fewer volition beryllium amazed to spot him selected successful our combined XI up of William Pacho, contempt his stellar play with PSG.

Left-back: Nuno Mendes

Piero Hincapie and Riccardo Calafiori person proven to beryllium 2 beardown left-back options for Arsenal this season, but if is hard to disregard the emergence of Nuno Mendes, arguably the champion left-back successful satellite football.

The 23-year-old has elevated his crippled to caller heights successful caller seasons and his quality to predominate some defensively and offensively has made him a standout subordinate nether Enrique. Thirteen extremity contributions successful 40 games this word (six goals, 7 assists) is an awesome instrumentality for the Portuguese.

Centre-midfield: Joao Neves

Mendes’s compatriot Joao Neves besides makes our combined XI, and astatine the property of 21, helium continues to thrive arsenic an important cog successful Enrique’s midfield instrumentality astatine PSG.

Renowned for his exceptional enactment rate, tactical quality and elite passing accuracy, Neves is an all-action midfielder who makes cardinal contributions successful some boxes, portion helium amazingly offers an aerial menace from set-pieces contempt having a 5ft 9in frame.

Centre-midfield: Vitinha

The 3rd Portuguese subordinate successful this squad is Neves’s midfield spouse Vitinha, who is arsenic arsenic important for PSG, often acting arsenic main playmaker from a deep-lying cardinal presumption successful beforehand of the backmost four.

The 26-year-old is not known for his goalscoring attributes, but helium has netted six times successful the Champions League this term, including a astonishment hat-trick against Arsenal’s North London rivals Tottenham Hotspur successful the League Phase.

Centre-midfield: Declan Rice

Neither Martin Odegaard, Eberechi Eze, Martin Zubimendi, Mikel Merino nor Myles Lewis-Skelly marque our combined XI, but Declan Rice, Arsenal’s standout midfielder and set-piece specialist, makes the chopped having enjoyed an exceptional 2025-26 season.

A Ballon d’Or contender successful the eyes of many, Rice has played the astir minutes of immoderate outfield subordinate for the Gunners this word (4,336), scoring 5 goals and providing 11 assists successful 54 appearances crossed each competitions. He besides boasts 92.2% passing close from 663 passes successful the Champions League.

Right-wing: Bukayo Saka

Arsenal fans would person been flabbergasted if we had near Starboy Bukayo Saka retired of our combined XI. The England planetary is simply a hugely influential fig successful Arteta’s broadside and has contributed to 20 goals (11 goals, 9 assists) successful 48 games this season, contempt experiencing spells retired done injury.

Saka, who scored the winning extremity successful Arsenal’s semi-final second-leg triumph implicit Atletico, is 1 of the archetypal names connected the teamsheet astatine the Emirates, erstwhile fit, and takes our right-wing spot up of PSG brace Desire Doue and Bradley Barcola.

Striker: Ousmane Dembele

Viktor Gyokeres does not diagnostic successful our combined XI up of Ousmane Dembele, who has experienced a singular vocation resurgence astatine PSG, evolving into 1 of the world's astir unsafe and prolific centre-forwards having antecedently operated retired wide.

The 2025 Ballon d’Or victor and two-time Ligue 1 Player of the Season has recorded 19 goals and 11 assists for Enrique’s broadside this term, with 5 of those goals scored crossed his past 3 Champions League appearances, including 3 successful the semi-final triumph implicit Bayern.

Left-wing: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has been thing abbreviated of sensational for PSG this play and has peculiarly excelled successful the Champions League, scoring a team-high 10 goals and providing six assists successful 15 appearances.

The skillful and assertive Georgian winger has proven to beryllium a big-game subordinate for Enrique’s side, scoring successful the past 16, quarter-finals, semi-finals and past season’s 5-0 last triumph implicit Inter Milan. Neither Leandro Trossard nor Gabriel Martinelli tin displace PSG’s peculiar No.7.

PSG vs. Arsenal Combined XI: Raya; Hakimi, Saliba, Gabriel, Mendes; Neves, Vitinha, Rice; Saka, Dembele, Kvaratskhelia