Historic victory for Saint Germain in Munich ... and a big step for Chelsea to the semi-finals of the "Champions"

International striker Kylian Mbappe scored a brace to lead his team, Paris Saint-Germain, to a precious and historic victory over Bayern Munich, the defending champion, 3-2 yesterday in the first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals in football, and Chelsea took a very important step towards reaching the semi-finals. By winning 2-0 away to Porto in Seville.

And after imposing himself as a star for his team’s match against Barcelona in the semi-finals by scoring a hat-trick in the back (4-1), Mbappe continued his brilliance in the most important continental competition by scoring a double this time to put his team on the edge of the semi-finals.

Saint-Germain achieved an achievement because it was the right to the first loss in Bayern Munich after about two years and 19 games in which the Bavarian team had not lost in the European competition.

Bayern Munich played the match without Polish scorer Robert Lewandowski, who suffered a knee injury during his participation in the national team at the international window late last month, in addition to Serge Gnabry, who suffers from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The Bavarian team beat Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 in the continental final last season to crown its sixth title in the tournament.

Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappe scored a brace (the first and third goals), while the French scored the third (second), the Brazilian Marikinius.

On the other hand, the two goals of Bayern Munich were followed by Muller and Mötting.

"It's a great result," said German midfielder Julian Draxler. "It's not easy to win here. We suffered a lot and worked together, everyone ran tonight."

Bayern coach Hanzi Flick said, "The opposing team did not create many chances, but scored three goals. As for us, we got a lot of chances and we only scored twice."

"I don't like losing, but when you lose in this way, we can say that we played a great game and my players did not give up until the last second."

Chelsea, towards the semi-finals,

Chelsea took a big step towards the semi-finals by beating their hosts Porto 2-0 at the "Ramon Sanchez Pisjuan" stadium in Seville, Spain, due to travel restrictions in force between England and Portugal.

Mason Mount (32) and Ben Chilwell (85) scored the two goals.

The two teams meet back next Tuesday at the same stadium.

The London club has gone a long way towards reaching the round of four of the competition for the first time since 2014, after knowing how to restrain its host, Portuguese champion 1987 and 2004, who dawned a heavy surprise by ousting Juventus from the final round.

Chelsea, champion of the competition in 2012 and runner-up in 2008, maintained their impressive unbeaten record for the eighth game in a row in various competitions.

Porto was the better side at the start of the match and pressed hard on his guests, looking to score early, but the London club's defense remained vigilant.

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