Wearing their blue, red and white jerseys, Paris Saint-Germain supporters were surrounded by white shirts.
Real Madrid fans were 95 of the crowd at MetLife Stadium for Wednesday's Club World Cup semifinal, the shirts of Los Blancos radiant in the harsh summer sun. Yet, it was PSG fans in a couple sections behind one goal who cheered virtually from start to finish as their team moved within one win of a historic quadruple.
A 4-0 rout of Real Madrid in a Club World Cup semifinal following a 5-0 wipeout of Inter Milan in the Champions League final reinforced that PSG may be the dominant soccer team of the mid-2020s.
"We have always said that the collective work by the players is what's helping us," said Fabian Ruiz, who scored twice as PSG built a three-goal lead in the first 24 minutes. "We are a great group, a young group that is working well."
PSG moved on to Sunday's final against Chelsea in the first expanded Club World Cup with a chance to win its fourth major title of the season exactly 100 days after it clinched Ligue 1 on April 5 . It added the Coupe de France by beating Reims 3-0 on May 24, then romped over Inter seven days later.