Bayern Munich deepened the French surgeon Paris Saint-Germain and inflicted it with a third successive loss in various competitions, by defeating it 1-0 at home in the first leg of the 16th round of the Champions League, on Tuesday.
Former Saint-Germain player Kingsey Coman scored the match’s only goal in the 53rd minute, knowing that the return match in Munich will take place on the eighth of next March.
Saint-Germain played its match against its Bavarian rival, with two successive losses, the first against its arch-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.
Paris Saint-Germain star Kylian Mbappe started the match on the bench of the reserve players after recovering from an injury in the left thigh, which he suffered against Montpellier in the league on the first of February, and his team announced at that time his absence from this match, specifically for a period of 3 weeks.
Paris Saint-Germain coach Christophe Galtier gave young Warren Zaire Emery (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 match in the knockout stages of the Champions League.
The match started with caution on both sides, as Bayern had a relative advantage in terms of possession, but without real danger to 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 Bayern Munich Swiss goalkeeper Jan Sommer did not test his abilities at all.
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).
Bayern Munich coach Julian Nagelsmann made a change between the two halves, so he involved the Canadian left-back Alfonso Davies instead of the Portuguese Joao Cancelo, and his choice was appropriate 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).
Koeman, a former Paris Saint-Germain player, scored Bayern Munich’s only goal against the capital’s team in the 2020 competition final.
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 pushed his acrobatic ball into a corner with his fingertips (62).
The offensive front was very active in Saint-Germain, and the hosts 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.
After that, Mbappe turned a cross after a wonderful individual effort by the Portuguese left-back Nuno Mendes into the net, but the referee canceled the goal because the decisive pass was infiltrated (82).
