Bayern Munich deepened the wounds of Paris Saint-Germain and inflicted it with a third consecutive loss in various competitions, by defeating it 1-0 at its home, the Princes’ Park, in the first leg of the Champions League final on Tuesday.
Former Saint-Germain player Kingsley Coman scored the match's only goal in the 53rd minute.
The return match will be held in Munich on the eighth of next March.
Saint-Germain fought his match against his Bavarian rival, with two consecutive losses, the first against his traditional rivals Marseille in the final price of the cup competition in the middle of last week 1-2, then against Monaco 1-3 in the local league a few days ago.
Kylian Mbappe, the star of Paris Saint-Germain, started the match on the benches of the reserve players, after recovering from an injury in the left thigh he suffered against Montpellier in the league on the first of February, and his team announced at the time his absence from this match, specifically for a period of 3 weeks.
Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier gave young Warren Zaire Emre (16 years and 343 days) the opportunity to start, after he had done well recently.
Emery thus became the youngest player ever to play a Champions League knockout match.
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Cautious start
The match witnessed a cautious start from both sides, as Bayern had a relative advantage in terms of possession, but without real danger to the Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma, with the exception of a shot from Cameroonian Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting that passed to the left post in the first minutes.
On the other hand, the capital team relied on counterattacks and on the Argentine duo Lionel Messi and the Brazilian Neymar, but without much effectiveness, and therefore the Swiss Jan Sommer, Bayern Munich goalkeeper, was never tried.
Bayern had the most dangerous opportunity when the ball arrived on the outskirts of the area in front of Joshua Kimmich, and he controlled it before firing it powerfully, which Donnarumma threw at it (43).
The most dangerous chance of the meeting... a powerful shot from Kimmich that Donnarumma brilliantly saved
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Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann made a change between the two halves, so he involved the Canadian left-back Alfonso Davis instead of the Portuguese Joao Cancelo, so his choice was in place because he had the decisive pass from which Koeman scored the first goal with a low, lightning shot that deceived Donnarumma (53).
⚽️ Koeman surprises Saint-Germain and scores the Bavarian team's progress goal
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Koeman - a former player in Paris Saint-Germain - scored Bayern Munich's only goal against the capital team in the 2020 tournament final.
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Mbappe entered the midst of heavy applause from his team's supporters in the 57th minute, and Donnarumma saved his goal from a sure goal by a former Saint-Germain player, Chubu Moting, when he removed his acrobatic corner ball with his fingertips (62).
The offensive front was very active in Saint-Germain, and the owners of the land were the best in the second half, as their attacks posed a real danger to the Sumer goal, and Mbappe scored a goal, but he was offside.
Mbappe succeeded in investing a cross ball after a wonderful individual effort by the Portuguese left-back Nuno Mendes, and put it into the net, but the referee canceled the goal because the decisive pass holder had offside (82).
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Milan beats Tottenham
In another match in the first leg of the final price round, Milan took a step towards its first appearance in the quarter-finals of the Champions League in 11 years, after Ibrahim Diaz's goal gave the Italian team a 1-0 victory over his guest Tottenham at the San Siro stadium on Tuesday.
Diaz scored the only goal of the match early in the seventh minute, and Milan managed to maintain its lead until the end of the match.
The two teams will meet in the return match on March 8.
Milan qualified for this role after finishing second in Group E with 10 points, while Tottenham qualified after finishing at the top of Group D with 11 points.