Coman went to Italy, and from there to Munich. KAI Bayern is still pressing, and then harrying anyone who tries to move the ball out of the back on the ground. The margins were fine, and P.S.G.
Both runners-up played the first leg of their quarter-final at home, as did the teams drawn first in the other two quarter-finals.The top scorers from the 1998–99 UEFA Champions League (excluding qualifying rounds) are as follows: It was the first final to end 1-0 since Real Madrid beat Juventus in 1998 … Bayern That, in the context of what Qatar wants from its investment, is almost the same as the Champions League trophy. For the first time since 1998, the final is a meeting of two teams who qualified as domestic champions. In these circumstances, it feels almost inevitable that at some point he was going to score the winning goal in a Champions League final. So does Davies, who picked up the game’s first yellow card a few minutes ago.Di Maria fires high from in close — the third great chance in a few minutes — but the more notable outcome of the play is that Bayern’s central defender Jérôme Boateng comes up with a leg injury (it looks like he was grimacing as he held his inner thigh).Whatever it is, it has ended his day. He is only 24, and yet he has already won 20 major trophies. Neymar feels there should be criminal charges, and possibly an arrest, but our referee decides not to indict and again settles for a yellow.Those are adding up a little, though, and in a game with such fine margins, you wonder if at some point a tired foul could prove costly if the player is already carrying a yellow.Gnabry and Goretzka sandwich Neymar (accidentally, it seems) and then does it again at midfield a minute later (this one seemed a bit more forceful). But what the Parisians really need is a goal, and Bayern is just so experienced it’s going to take something really special now.As play resumes, Thiago Silva gets a yellow for pulling down Lewandowski, who just.
Now he has returned to haunt the club that made him, to vanquish it when it was in sight of its goal.But one picture does not tell a story. AJX Athletic Club Paris St.-Germain has obsessed over the Champions League for a decade. Final 26 May But P.S.G. bought him, essentially as emergency cover for Marco Verratti, from Zenit St. Petersburg. But Presnel Kimpembe dives to head it clear.The center back hits Di Maria from behind while contesting a header at midfield in one of those fouls you see in every game. He trusted his players not to blink. Lens Neymar, staring into the middle distance. has never played in the Champions League final before this season.What’s strange is that the two finalists were the two teams that some predicted would struggle the most in Lisbon.Bayern Munich Wins Champions League, a Victory for Tradition and TeamKingsley Coman with the trophy that his goal helped to deliver.Neymar and his coach, Thomas Tuchel, had never been this close to the Champions League trophy at P.S.G.Miguel A. Lopes/Agence France-Presse — Getty ImagesComan’s header beat Keylor Navas and gave Bayern a 1-0 lead.His joy was particularly stinging for P.S.G. Juventus 0, and Flick looks like a genius for starting a Parisian against P.S.G.