The French team dreams of continuing its surprises after the elimination of City and Juventus
The Bayern machine threatens Lyon with the fate of Barcelona
Gnabry is the most prominent Bayern attacker. EPA
A heavy load today on the Lyon Raphael defender in front of the Bayern attackers. A.F.B.
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Bayern Munich seeks to continue its advance towards the title of the European Champions League in football, when it meets, today, in the Portuguese city of Lisbon, the French team Lyon, aspiring to achieve a new surprise after overthrowing Italian Juventus and Manchester City.
The two teams enter the match with very high spirits after each eliminated two teams that were strong candidates to compete for the title. The Bavarian club resumed the ancient continental competition that is currently being held in the Portuguese capital Lisbon with a big victory over Chelsea, England, 4-1 in the second leg of the final eighth (won 3-0 in the first leg in London before stopping due to the new Corona virus), before inflicting a humiliating historic loss to Barcelona, Spain, 8-2 in the quarter-finals.
As for Lyon, he detonated two heavy-caliber surprises when he knocked out Juventus from the eighth of the final despite losing 1-2 in front of him (he won 1-0 in the first leg in Lyon), before achieving a precious 3-1 victory over Manchester City in the quarter-finals.
It is the second time that the German and French teams meet in the round of four of the prestigious continental competition, after the first in 2010 when the Bavarian team came out with a 1-0 victory in Munich and 3-0 back in Lyon, before losing the final match to Inter Milan, Italy, 0-2. . If Bayern Munich aspires to reach the final 11th in its history in the competition studded with five titles: 1974, 1975, 1976, 2001 and 2013, Lyon is looking forward to the first final in its history. Lyon is well aware of the difficulty of his task against the Bavarian giants, which was confirmed by his coach, Rudi Garcia, after the victory over the men of the Spanish coach, Josep Guardiola, who said that surpassing Bayern Munich in the golden square would require "heroic action".
Lyon hopes to win the title to ensure its participation in the prestigious continental competition next season, and to avoid being absent from continental competitions for the first time after 23 consecutive seasons, after the French Federation decided to permanently suspend the league due to the "Covid-19" virus, and adopt an arrangement in which Lyon was seventh, and thus Outside the continental competitions.
For his part, Bayern Munich midfielder, former Lyon star, French international Corentin Tolisso, said that his team “will not underestimate Lyon, who reached the semi-finals, and I do not think that a team reaches this role by chance, perhaps from a German point of view this is the lesser known team, But everyone watched the match (against City) and saw what Lyon could do. In big matches, Lyon is always present. ”
Bayern Munich has a lot of lethal weapons with experience, such as attackers Thomas Muller, the only one besides the Austrian David Alaba, who faced Lyon in the 2010 semi-finals, the Polish Robert Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry, the Croatian Ivan Perisic and the Brazilian Felipe Coutinho, while Lyon relied on his defense line and in front of him. The promising midfield trio led by Algerian origin Hossam Aouar (22 years old), Maxense Cakre (20 years old), Brazilian Bruno Guimaraes (22 years old) and striker Moussa Dembele, who has a double against City and the Dutch league, Memphis Depay.
• Bayern are looking forward to the 11th final in their history.
• Lyon dreams of ending a bad domestic season by reaching the final match for the first time.