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... August 23, 2020, 9:17 PM.
Prediction and odds for the game: RB Leipzig (10/3) v PSG (3/4) We are backing the PSG victory.
This is the German side’s first-ever UCL semi-final appearance, while PSG is competing in their first since 1994/95. Former PSG player the hero, as Bayern Munich win Champions League ... August 23, 2020. They head into this clash as underdogs.
PSG won the match 3-0.Fans without cable can watch the match for free via a trial of The Champions League final will finally be a meeting of champions again.Bayern Munich made sure the title match will live up to the competition's name by beating Lyon 3-0 on Wednesday, setting up a final against Paris Saint-Germain.It's the first time in 22 years that the final will feature two teams who qualified as domestic league champions.Lyon wasted a couple of early chances and was then overwhelmed by the clinical Bavarian powerhouse, the competition's highest-scoring team which was coming off an 8-2 win over Barcelona in the quarterfinals.Serge Gnabry netted twice before Robert Lewandowski added a later header, giving that duo a combined 24 Champions League goals this season, part of Bayern's total haul of 42.PSG as a team only has 25 goals in the competition this season.“We will look to organize our defense, but we know our biggest strength is putting our opponents under pressure,” Bayern coach Hansi Flick said.In 35 games since Flick was promoted to manager in November after Niko Kovac's firing, he won 32 of them to steer Bayern from fourth place in the Bundesliga, to German Cup glory and into a first continental final since lifting the European Cup in 2013.Sunday's game at Benfica's stadium will be the first time since Real Madrid faced Juventus in 1998 that two domestic champions met in the final.“For now we celebrate a little bit,” Bayern midfielder Alphonso Davies said. “When you win a title like this with brothers on the pitch,” Kimmich had said shortly after the full-time whistle, “that’s the maximum you can ask for.”On a continent where more than 200,000 have died from the coronavirus, the longest and most disrupted of peacetime men’s European football seasons ended in emptiness and near silence.Just as it was for so much of a first Champions League final played without fans.Only a few hundred people were allowed into the Benfica stadium, because of pandemic restrictions, to see PSG academy graduate Kingsley Coman head in the winner from Kimmich’s cross in the 59th minute.While Bayern won its first continental final since 2013, PSG has yet to lift the European Cup despite more than $1 billion being spent on players in the nine years under Qatari ownership.More than $500 million was spent on Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Angel Di Maria, but PSG looked far from formidable or threatening against the Bavarian club that was more assured than the first-time European Cup finalists.As the front three were frustrated in front of goal, it was instead a left winger who plays in Neymar’s position, was born in Paris and started his career at PSG, who inflicted the blow.It was Gnabry attacking down the right that unpicked the PSG defense before passing to Thomas Müller. ”The season is now over — three months later than planned — with Bayern a treble winner just as it was in 2013.Bayern joins deposed champion Liverpool as six-time champions of Europe, only behind AC Milan (seven) and Real Madrid (13).
“My goal came at the right time to give us a bit of confidence.”His threat was evident across the pitch at the Sporting stadium in Lisbon, driving forward with the ball for the move that led to the second goal.
In these top-level matches you pay for not taking your chances though.”Just a minute after the post denied Lyon the opener, Gnabry brushed aside several challenges as he cut in from the right and powered in a shot into the top corner in the 18th minute.“The first couple of minutes we struggled a little bit,” he said. They have been accused of ‘bottling it’ in the latter stages of the competition on almost a yearly basis.However, PSG have shown fighting spirit in the last two rounds of the Champions League.
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“I remember in November the papers wrote that no one fears this Bayern team anymore, that no one respects it and how bad they are,” Flick said.
“It was a complete team performance.”From the front to the back, as the 19-year-old Alphonso Davies became the youngest defender to win the Champions League.“Who would ever have thought a guy from Canada would win the Champions League?