Lisbon (AFP)

Kingsley Coman, a pure product of the Paris SG training center, offered Sunday the Champions League to Bayern Munich by scoring the only goal of the match (1-0): a deserved revenge on the bad luck that spoiled the first years of his career.

The action of the 59th minute is crystal clear. Center of Kimmich, uncrossed header of the French at the corner of six meters, Keylor Navas is beaten. Thilo Kehrer, Coman's bodyguard since the start of the match, is out of position.

In the following minutes, the 24-year-old international winger is still behind two very hot actions on his left wing, his favorite, but without success. Moments later, Hansi Flick called him back on the bench to launch Ivan Perisic.

And to think that the former Parisian, who left at 18 for Juventus before joining Bayern, almost did not hold this final! Injured before the Lisbon tournament, he had only entered at the end of the match against Barcelona in the quarter (8-2) and Lyon in the half (3-0).

At a press conference this week, he confessed that he was not sure he could play a full match: "I feel good physically, but it's true that it's been a few months since I last. not played 90 minutes ", he said:" But if I have to give 30 minutes, 45 minutes, 70 minutes fully, in any case I'll be fresh. "

- Deprived of Mondial by an injury -

Asked before the match on his choice to play Coman instead of Ivan Perisic, holder in the two previous matches, Bayern coach Hansi Flick was justified: "He is a former Parisian, he will no doubt have a little extra motivation, and I picked him for his speed, which we're going to need. "

Once again, Flick got it right.

Coman, who had already experienced a Champions League final with Juventus at a young age in 2015 (3-1 defeat against Barcelona), during which he had played for one minute, had tried to find serenity before the meeting against Paris.

"There is no pressure, he said two days before the match, a final is something wonderful to experience, we are just going to have a lot of fun and hope that it will be a great night for the team".

This tenure in the final, and this victory, are a reward for the courage and patience of the young man, whose career has been chopped by a series of injuries.

In 2018, two serious ligament ruptures consecutive to the same left ankle forced him to almost nine months of absence. His injury in February deprived him of a summons for the World Cup in Russia, and ipso facto of the title of world champion. While his Bayern teammates Corentin Tolisso, Benjamin Pavard and Lucas Hernandez lifted the World Cup.

- Robben's equal -

This season, less serious injuries took him away from the field again. He has only started 17 times in the Bundesliga, for four goals and four assists: not a lot for a player of his talent.

In an interview in the fall of 2018, while he was treating his second ligament rupture, the young man had even raised the possibility of stopping his career if his body continued to betray him.

Fortunately for Bayern, and for football, Coman has returned to the highest level. He is currently forming a winger duo at Bayern with Serge Gnabry who are supposed to replace the legendary pair "Rib-Rob", Franck Ribéry and Arjen Robben.

The young Frenchman shared a fragile physique with Robben, the Dutchman having even been nicknamed "the crystal player". But since Sunday, it is a much more glorious title that the two men share: Robben had scored the goal of victory in the 2013 Champions League (2-1 against Dortmund), a year of a cup-championship-C1 treble.

Coman did as well. By including his generation, that of Kimmich, Süle, Tolisso or Gnabry, in the Golden Book of the German "Rekordmeister".

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