Bayern end the Lyon adventure ... and Lewandowski threaten against Saint-Germain in the Champions League final
Bayern Munich continued its impressive displays and reached the final match of the European Champions League in football, by beating Lyon 3 - zero in the semi-final at the stadium "Jose Alvalade" in Lisbon. Bayern’s victory is thanks to Serge Gnabry, who scored a double in the 18th and 33rd minutes, and Robert Lewandowski (89).
Bayern hit a date Sunday in the final match, which will mark the end of a season that has been suspended for months due to the emerging Corona virus, with Paris Saint-Germain, who won yesterday over Leipzig, Germany, by three cleans as well. It is Bayern's tenth victory in its ten matches in the Champions League this season (just a record that the Bavarian club shared with Real Madrid himself), as he ended the group league without losing any points, and then continued his successful career, knocking out all his rivals in the following rounds.
Coach Hanzi Flick's men succeeded in stopping the French team’s adventure at the last four, after they saw how Juventus and Manchester City, England, in the eight and quarter-finals, were eliminated on their way to meet them, using their deadly offensive weapon, which resulted in eight goals against Barcelona in the quarter-finals.
Gnabry punished Lyon and his players for wasting the opportunities that were available to them, after his teammates launched a counterattack, which resulted in Joshua Kimmich passing the ball, and he advanced it and fired from the outskirts of the penalty area with a strong left ball to the right of Portuguese goalkeeper Anthony Lopez (18).
The delay did not fall with a goal from the determination of the French who tried to score the equalizer, but the Bavarians consolidated their ranks and repaired the defensive defects they suffered from in the first half hour, and doubled their progress with a second goal for Gnabry, who benefited from his position inside the square after the rebound of the attempt of Polish Robert Levanodovsky from Lopez, so he followed it in Goal (33). It is the ninth goal for the 25-year-old player in the Champions League in nine matches, and Lewandowski refused to make his mark on the match record by scoring the third goal for his team with a header (89).
Lewandowski raised his score at the top of the scorers' ranking to 15 goals, to surpass the number registered in the name of Real Madrid's Spanish duo in the 2013-2014 season, Cristiano Ronaldo (17 goals) and Welshman Gareth Bale (6 goals), who together scored 23 goals.
Lewandowski scored so far in nine consecutive matches in the tournament, to equal the number of Dutchman Ruud van Nistelrooy in 2003 and close to Ronaldo (11 games) in 2018, and he also became two goals away from the equal of the Portuguese Don number (17 goals) in one season 2013-2014.