Lisbon: Bayern Munich won the European Cup for the sixth time on Sunday when Kingsley Coman’s purpose gave them a 1-0 win over Paris Saint-Germain in a thrilling Champions League final in Lisbon, ending a season for the German giants and leaving their war. matches are still looking for the trophy they covet more than anything.
It was a cautious final, with a bit of a needle between the teams, but also occasions, especially before Coman gave the impression on the back post to head to Joshua Kimmich’s attractive center in the 59th minute and a hat-trick for a team. who had already won the Bundesliga and the German Cup.
Hansi Flick’s team will feel it deserves its victory, but the PSG will not take advantage of any of the opportunities presented to it in a surreal instance in an empty Stadium of Light.
Kylian Mbappé, in particular, has done more than directly shoot Manuel Neuer at halftime.
The French striker, winner of the World Cup, had spoken of his determination to make history of his country by attending PSG until the time when the Frenchman won the biggest prize in European football.
But they will have to wait for them to compete with Marseille, who won the first Champions League in 1993.
The Qatari owners of the PSG spent a total of 402 million euros ($474 million) on Neymar and Mbappé in 2017 to win this competition, not just to succeed in the final. However, it was in spite of everything who escaped from Paris who rejected them.
Coman, 24, born in Paris and began his career at PSG, before leaving in 2014 for Juventus, feeling that he would not get the normal football he sought if he stayed there.
He had been on the bench in the semi-final against Lyon, but was promoted to the starting line-up for the final, replacing Ivan Perisic on the left wing.
Now he would possibly no longer be welcome in his hometown.
But at Bayern, he will be remembered as the guy who won the trophy for them in 2020, in the eleventh final of the club and seven years after his last Euro title.
Flick’s team finished this season with 21 consecutive wins and unbearable in 30 games. They deserved to be in a full stadium.
However, a few hundred lucky visitors entered the cavernous space of Benfica to see the final results of the “Final Eight”, after a festival so delayed by the pandemic of the coronavirus.
The strangest of the finals faced two clubs that took very different paths to be part of the European elite, Bayern had long established as the ultimate success and the tough team in Germany and PSG had left the rest of the French game after the takeover of Qatar. in 2011.
But if there’s a mismatch in terms of history, inside and outside the box right now, they’re almost perfectly balanced.
This has resulted in the kind of adjustment that no game knows in those days.
Bayern were desperately close to opening the scoring in the middle of the first half when Lewandowski, for his 56th goal of the season, hit an Alphonso Davies centre, turned around and fired at the post.
The Pole also approached a header who stored through Keylor Navas, the PSG goalkeeper who won the Champions League three times with Real Madrid and was returning from an injury that had ruled him out of the semi-final against RB Leipzig.
But Bayern risked playing with such a high line, and PSG has punished him in the first half.
Neymar rejected through a fair stop from Neuer after being set up through Mbappé, while Mbappé himself controlled to shoot directly at the goalkeeper after David Alaba passed the ball to the Bayern area.
Alaba had previously noticed his central defensive colleague, Jerome Boateng, limping with a recurrence of the hamstring challenge that forced him to go opposite Lyon.
Niklas Usual replaced him and helped the Paris attack while Bayern held their lead.
Bayern had damaged the impasse shortly before the hour in a play that began with a Pass thiago Alcántara pulverized forward, and ended with Coman entering the helm of Kimmich’s best installment.
Neymar ended the attack with a yellow card for knocking out Lewandowski and a finalist medal, while Bayern celebrated it.
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