situation French Paris Saint-Germain He himself is in a difficult position to achieve his ultimate dream of winning the European Football Champions League title for the first time in its history, by falling at home to Bayern Munich, Germany, 0-1, in the first leg of the tournament’s final price on Tuesday, while Milan defeated its guest, Tottenham, with a clean goal.
And he received an SG Third loss in a row In various competitions over a period of 6 days, for the first time since 2020.
Former Saint-Germain player Kingsey Coman scored the only goal of the match in the 53rd minute. The same player stood in the way of the French capital team being crowned the continental title, when he also scored the only goal of the match in the 2020 final.
The second leg will be held in Munich on March 8.
Saint-Germain fought its match once morest its Bavarian rival, with two losses in a row, the first once morest its arch-rivals Marseille in the final price of the cup competition in the middle of last week 1-2, then once morest Monaco 1-3 in the local league a few days ago.
Paris Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappe started the match on the bench of the reserve players, following recovering from a left thigh injury he suffered once morest Montpellier in the league on February 1, and his team announced at the time his absence from this match, specifically for a period of 3 weeks.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier gave youngster Warren Zaire Emery (16 years and 343 days) a chance to start, following he has done well in recent times. Emery thus became the youngest player ever to play a match in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
Bayern goalkeeper Jan Sommer said, “We have to present a similar match in Munich, but it will not be a picnic. We completely dominated the match in the first half and did not open spaces for them. They made changes in the second, which gave them dynamism and got chances to score.”
“We’re going to win and qualify.”
As for Mbappe, he stressed, “I think we have to wait until the end. We do not have the advantage, but we saw that we were able to put them in difficult situations. Now we need all our players to be healthy and we will go there to win and qualify.”
On his return to the stadiums, he said, “It was complicated, it was unpredictable, I wasn’t supposed to play but I wanted to, to help my teammates, to bring energy… It’s not what I want, I always want to play, but sometimes you have to be.” satisfied with what we can do.”
The French capital team relied on counterattacks and the Argentine duo Lionel Messi and the Brazilian Neymar, but without much effectiveness, and therefore Sumer was never tried.
Bayern had the most dangerous opportunity when the ball reached the outskirts of the area in front of Joshua Kimmich, so he controlled it before he fired it powerfully, and Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma (43) threw it.
Correct conversion
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 was the owner of the decisive pass from which Koeman scored the first goal with a low, lightning shot that deceived Donnarumma (53).
The moment awaited by St. Germain’s supporters came when Mbappe entered amid heavy applause in the 57th minute, and Donnarumma saved his goal from a sure goal by a former player in St. Germain, Choupo Moting, when he removed his acrobatic corner ball with his fingertips (62).
Mbappe managed to invest a cross following 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 slipped (82). Then a Bayern defender intervened to deflect a dangerous ball from Messi (85).
At the end of the match, the referee sent off Bayern full back Benjamin Bavar, to miss the second leg.
France 24/AFP
