Bayern Munich defeated Paris SG 1-0 this Tuesday in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16 played at the Parc des Princes and takes the lead for the second leg in Germany on March 8 .
The Frenchman Kingsley Coman scored the only goal (53) in a game in which Bayern was far superior until Kylian Mbappé entered the field, who revolutionized PSG, who in the end had chances to have tied.
The German team ended up in inferiority after the expulsion of Benjamin Pavard when he saw the second yellow card for a foul on Lionel Messi, so the French winger will miss the return leg in Munich.
Much was expected from the most interesting round of 16 tie (along with Real Madrid and Liverpool), but in the first part there was only Bayern Munich in the Parque de los Príncipes.
The Germans barely needed 30 seconds to shoot for the first time on goal (Choupo-Moting) and took control of the match (60% possession at half-time), constantly attacking the opposing goal (35 arrivals for only 10 from the locals). , although without the usual aim in the German champion.
The midfielder Joshua Kimmich, in a shot from the edge that Gianluigi Donnarumma saved on the ground (43) was the clearest chance for the Bavarians, while the only offensive action of the Parisians was a free kick that Lionel Messi smashed into the wall (45+2).
It is true that PSG lacked a fundamental attacking mainstay like Kylian Mbappé, who was left on the bench due to the muscle injury he has been carrying for two weeks, but Bayern started without many of their offensive weapons (Davis, Müller and Gnabry They were not starters and Sadio Mané is injured).
Precisely, after the break Alphonso Davis entered and the Canadian full-back put in the cross that Coman converted into the first goal of the game, with a low shot that slipped under Donnarumma’s body (53).
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The goal against forced Christophe Galtier to remove Mbappé, but Bayern remained very effective in defense and dangerous in attack, with two very clear chances from Choupo-Moting, the first one saved by Donnarumma (62) and the second one that crashed into wood (63).
The Italian PSG goalkeeper was once again providential by stopping a Dayot Upamecano header that would have made it 2-0 (64), in a phase of the match in which it seemed that Bayern were much superior and that it could even end up deciding the tie .
The French team finally reacted with a drive from the left by Mbappé, whose one-on-one shot against Yann Sommer was taken off by the Swiss goalkeeper with his face (73).
Mbappé put fear into the body of the Germans, who took a step back, leaving the initiative to the Parisians, who began to surround the Bavarian goal with great danger.
Mbappé scored the equalizer, but it was ruled out for offside by Nuno Mendes at the start of the play (82); Pavard took a shot from Messi that went to the net (84) and Sommer stopped a dangerous shot from Vitinha after the Swiss handed the ball to an opponent (85).
But the marker no longer moved and the Allianz Arena will pass sentence. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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