Saint-Germain celebrates its first qualification to the Champions League final ... and ends the Leipzig adventure
Paris Saint-Germain, France, is a step away from entering history through its wide door, after it reached the final of the European Champions League for the first time in its history yesterday, on the fiftieth anniversary of its founding, by beating Leipzig, Germany, by 3 clean in the semi-final round in the Portuguese capital Lisbon. The French champion owes his victory to the Brazilian Marquinhos (13), the Argentine Angel Di Maria (42) and the Spaniard Juan Bernat (56). And meet Saint-Germain in the final scheduled for the current 23 with Bayern Munich or Lyon, the French surprise of the season, which meet today.
Saint-Germain guaranteed the presence of a French team in the final for the first time since Monaco 2004. The club of the French capital reached the golden square for the first time in 25 years and only the second in its history after a fatal victory over Italy's Atalanta 2-1 with two goals in the 90 and 90 + 3 minutes, while Leipzig excelled. Atletico Madrid got the same result, to reach the semi-finals for the first time in its history in only his second participation.
Since 2011, Saint-Germain, led by its German coach Thomas Tuchel, will be looking to become only the second French club to achieve the title of the highest continental competition after Marseille in 1993 in its quest for a historic triple after crowning the league and the domestic cup, in addition to the last edition of the League Cup.