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The Champions of surprises and implausible results will be buckled with a final starring those who were the favorites to play it since the draw was known. Bayern will accompany PSG in Lisbon in a duel that goes beyond a clash between two great teams. It will be a struggle that will determine whether the blatant megalomania coming from the Middle East is capable or not of wresting supremacy from the classical aristocracy of European football, the one that Bayern represents on behalf of Madrid, Barcelona, ​​Liverpool, Manchester United, the Juventus ...

If PSG had not given Leipzig a chance in the first semi-final, neither did Bayern last night with a Lyon that is simply light years ahead of the Germans: enough has been done by sneaking into the top four. With Gnabry , scorer of two goals, in the role of commander-in-chief, the German team exhibited the same forcefulness that had already brought down Chelsea and Barça with a crash. If there is to be a favorite for the final on Sunday, without a doubt the label belongs to this irrevocable and outstanding Bayern in all facets of the game.

It's been years since Europe saw such a dominating team. He beat Chelsea in the round of 16 despite the reassuring 0-3 in the first leg, then unleashed Barcelona like no one had ever done before and last night he passed the roller over Lyon, which not even the most optimistic of his fans expected to find in the semifinals of the Champions. Hansi Flick's men reach the unprecedented final against PSG, in search of their sixth European Cup, backed by a memorable streak: 28 wins and a draw in their last 29 games. To find your last defeat you have to go back to December 7. The future of last night's meeting, in short, could not be more predictable.

The resistance lasted 18 minutes for the French team, the time it took Gnabry to invent a wild goal. He found that damned space that five-player defenses tend to leave behind the back of the lane and from there he drew a straight line to the front of the area. Once there, after a cut that added flavor to his display of power, come out for the entrecote, he ripped off the ball with a dry and powerful shot next to the stick against which Lopes , superhero against City, could do nothing .

The goal of the German winger gave Bayern a calm that they had not found before. Four times in 15 minutes, Lyon had managed to set up accurate and dangerous counterattacks, punishing the Bavarian losses in midfield with the speed of Ekambi and Depay . After the goal, however, Bayern invited their rival to deploy a little more in the pressure and Lyon thus became a more vulnerable team at the back and less poisonous at the top. Thus arrived, after the initial half hour, the second goal, initiated and finalized by Gnabry, after Lewandowski inexplicably missed a death pass served by Perisic . It was not the best game of either of them.

There was still an hour left in the game, but Olympique understood that this 0-2 made the mission impossible. Lacking an alternative plan, it was already unfeasible to raise the adverse result based on accumulating players in defense and looking for counterattacks. However, despite the evidence that it no longer had anything to do, Lyon's effort to deny its inevitable fate was commendable, taking advantage of the fact that Bayern chose to get carried away in some sections.

The bad news for those of Rudi García was that in those brief phases of resignation from functions Neuer and Alaba appeared to maintain concentration and solve problems. Because, and that is their great secret, Bayern always have emergency lights in all corners of the field ready for when the lights fail. Lewandowski's goal just before the end, a very misstep for the rest of the match, served to confirm that reality.

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