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Paris Saint-Germain vs Bayern Munich - LIVE!
Kingsley Coman headed Bayern Munich to a sixth Champions League title in Lisbon, scoring against boyhood club Paris Saint-Germain to seal a 1-0 victory.
The 24-year-old ghosted in at the far post unchecked by the PSG defence and met a cross from Joshua Kimmich in the 59th minute.
The result completes an incredible transformation this season under Hansi Flick, who took charge in November with Bayern fourth in the Bundesliga.
The season is now over - three months later than planned due to the coronavirus pandemic pause in play - with Bayern treble winners.
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Team news
Bayern Munich coach Hansi Flick opted for French midfielder Kingsley Coman instead of Ivan Perisic on the left flank for Sunday's Champions League final against Paris St Germain.
Jerome Boateng started in the Bayern central defence, having recovered from a knock picked up in the semi-final win over Olympique Lyonnais.
PSG goalkeeper Keylor Navas returned to the starting lineup having recovered from injury but midfielder Marco Verratti was forced to settle for a place on the bench.
PSG confirmed XI: Navas, Kehrer, Thiago Silva, Kimpembe, Bernat, Ander Herrera, Marquinhos, Paredes, Di Maria, Neymar, Mbappe
Subs: Verratti, Sergio Rico, Choupo-Moting, Icardi, Sarabia, Kurzawa, Diallo, Draxler, Bakker, Gueye, Bulka, Dagba
Bayern Munich confirmed XI: Neuer, Kimmich, Boateng, Alaba, Davies, Goretzka, Thiago, Gnabry, Muller, Coman, Lewandowski
Subs: Odriozola, Sule, Pavard, Javi Martinez, Coutinho, Cuisance, Perisic, Lucas, Tolisso, Ulreich, Zirkzee, Hoffmann
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Some PSG fans have made the journey to Portugal to show their support even though they aren't allowed inside.
Now that's dedication!
Photo: Reuters
The venue
Few can argue that Benfica's Estadio da Luz, although not the newest football stadium, is not worthy of a game of his magnitude.
It's a stunning piece of footballing architecture and the closed-in stands inside the arena will no doubt increase the tension for tonight's clash, even if there are sadly no fans allowed inside the arena.
Photo: Reuters
Journey to the Final | PSG Group stageMD1 | W 3-0 vs Real Madrid (h)
MD2 | W 1-0 vs Galatasaray (a)
MD3 | W 5-0 vs Club Brugge (a)
MD4 | W 1-0 vs Club Brugge (h)
MD5 | D 2-2 vs Real Madrid (a)
MD6 | W 5-0 vs Galatasaray (h)
Last-16
1st leg: L 2-1 vs Dortmund (a)
2nd leg: W 2-0 vs Dortmund (h)
Quarter-finals
W 2-1 vs Atalanta (n) *played at neutral venue
Semi-finals
W 3-0 vs RB Leipzig (n) *played at neutral venue
Road to the Final | Bayern Munich Group stage
MD1 - W 3-0 vs Red Star (h)
MD2 - W 7-2 vs Tottenham (a)
MD3 - W 3-2 vs Olympiacos (a)
MD4 - W 2-0 vs Olympiacos (h)
MD5 - W 6-0 vs Red Star (a)
MD6 - W 3-1 vs Tottenham (h)
Last 16
1st leg: W 3-0 vs Chelsea (a)
2nd leg: W 4-1 vs Chelsea (h)
Quarter-finals
W 8-2 vs Barcelona (n) *played at neutral venue
Semi-finals
W 3-0 vs Lyon (n) *played at neutral venue
Coman home
Kinglsey Coman will be desperate to start tonight against the club where he came through the ranks. But he's putting his personal links aside for the final in Lisbon:
Photo: AFP“Paris is the club where I grew up. It’s been six years since I left so now it’s a long time ago, and this is not a game between me and Paris – it’s between Bayern and Paris.
"We want to win, and my heart, like I said yesterday, is now 100% Bayern München. I hope that we’re going to win this game.”
“I think there are only two players left who still play for them – Kimpembe I think is one. So, it’s a totally different team. I think we have a great chance and we will do everything in our capacity to win this game.”
Kahn comes out fighting
Bayern Munich general manager Oliver Kahn believes too much of the pre-match hype has been centred on Neymar and Kylian Mbappe...
Photo: Reuters“It’s not just that Paris have Mbappé and Neymar; we have Lewandowski, we have Gnabry, we have Neuer. "We have so many other good players in our ranks, and, of course, we know that Paris are household names, but we know our own strengths too.”
Fast final facts ++ In the previous 27 Champions League finals, there have been 20 outright wins and seven matches decided on shoot-outs. A total of 76 goals have been scored with the most common results being 2-1 and 1-1, which have each happened on five occasions; three finals have finished 1-0.
++ No player has scored a hat-trick in a Champions League final. Daniele Massaro (Milan 1994), Karl-Heinz Riedle (Borussia Dortmund 1997), Hernán Crespo (Milan 2005), Filippo Inzaghi (Milan 2007), Diego Milito (Internazionale Milano 2010), Cristiano Ronaldo (Real Madrid 2017) and Gareth Bale (Real Madrid 2018) all struck twice.
++ Tonight marks the sixth Champions League final for Bayern Munich since the competition changed in the early Nineties. They have won twice (2001, 2013) and lost on three occasions (1999, 2010, 2012). This is PSG's first appearance in the final.
Landmark
For PSG, celebrating the 50th anniversary of their formation after the merger of Paris clubs, winning the Champions League would mean the fulfilment of a nine-year journey of lavish investment since the state of Qatar bought the club.
The club has been dominant in France but is yet to succeed in the Champions League, with a first ever final outing following a first semi-final in 25 years.
The new normal?
Photo: Reuters
Uefa president Aleksander Ceferin says the single-game knockout format, used in the Champions League this year from the quarter-final onwards, has produced more exciting football than the usual two-legged games and could be revisited in the future.
The format was changed in order to allow the competition to be completed in a shorter time-span after the COVID-19 pandemic halted play for several months across Europe in March. Eight clubs headed to Lisbon with Bayern Munich or PSG to be crowned as winners tonight.
"We were forced to do it but in the end we see that we found out something new. So we will think about it in the future for sure," Ceferin told Reuters in an interview.
The Uefa president said that without a second leg to fall back on, teams have been forced to go for goals.
"(There has been) not so much tactics. If it is one match, if one team scores then the other has to score as soon as possible. If it is two legged system then there is still time to win the next match," he said.
"More exciting matches for sure but of course we also have to think about the fact that we have less matches and broadcasters (can) say 'you don't have as many matches as before, this is different' so we will have to discuss when this crazy situation ends."
Rooney predicts his winner
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Wayne Rooney believes PSG have the speed and skill to exploit Bayern Munich's high defensive line in Sunday's Champions League final and punish them in a way Olympique Lyonnais could not.
Lyon forwards Memphis Depay and Karl Toko Ekambi missed gilt-edged opportunities in the opening 16 minutes of their 3-0 defeat by Bayern in the semi-final on Wednesday and Rooney has warned that PSG's front three of Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Angel Di Maria will not be so wasteful.
"Bayern have the advantage that most of their starting line-up have played in the Champions League final before. But I have a feeling for PSG," Rooney, who won the Champions League with Manchester United in 2008, wrote in his column for the Sunday Times.
"It will be a shoot-out and I think with Neymar, Mbappe and Di Maria, PSG will exploit the high line that Bayern play. They will get chances and take them.
"I have no doubt that press will create chances for Bayern but PSG are good enough in possession to deal with it and once they play through it there will be opportunities for their attackers."
The spotlight will no doubt be on Mbappe and Neymar who have combined for eight goals and nine assists in the competition thus far but Rooney, 34, believes it's his former Manchester United team mate Di Maria that could make the difference.
"PSG's match-winner might just be Di Maria. He's a wonderful player. He works tirelessly on the pitch and his delivery, vision and awareness is brilliant," Rooney said