Mistakes, injuries, usury of opportunities: superior FC Bayern loses wild CL first leg


Mistakes, injuries, usury of opportunities
Superior FC Bayern loses wild CL first leg

For Hansi Flick it is a first, but not a pleasant one. For the first time, the coach loses a game in the Champions League with FC Bayern. Paris teaches the defending champions their first home defeat in a year and a half. Now the unexpected end in the quarter-finals threatens.

Bad surprise for the almost invincible: Bayern Munich have to seriously worry about making it to the semi-finals of the Champions League and successfully defending their title. Without Torgarant Robert Lewandowski and national player Serge Gnabry, the superior German soccer record champion Paris St. Germain lost 2: 3 (1: 2) in the new edition of the final of last season – in addition to a poor exploitation of chances, the miserable defensive performance was particularly noticeable.

“We have to make a lot more goals. If it goes 5: 3 or 6: 3 for us, nobody can complain based on the chances,” said the tireless Thomas Müller at Sky: “Now we have put the egg in our own nest. “

Bayern Munich – Paris St. Germain 2: 3 (1: 2)

Munich: Neuer – Pavard, Süle (42nd Boateng), Alaba, Hernández – Goretzka (33rd Davies), Kimmich – Sané, Müller, Coman – Choupo-Moting. – Trainer: Flick
Paris: Navas – Dagba, Marquinhos (30th Ander Herrera), Kimpembe, Diallo (46th Bakker) – Danilo, Gueye – Di Maria (71st Kean), Neymar (90th Rafinha), Draxler – Mbappé. – Trainer: Pochettino
Referee: Antonio Mateu Lahoz (Spain)
Gates: 0: 1 Mbappé (3rd), 0: 2 Marquinhos (28th), 1: 2 Choupo-Moting (37th), 2: 2 Müller (60th), 2: 3 Mbappé (68th)
Yellow cards: Hernández (2), Kimmich (2), Boateng (2), Choupo-Moting – Draxler

After hits by Kylian Mbappé (3rd) and captain Marquinhos (28th), each prepared by the outstanding Neymar, Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting (37th) and Thomas Müller (60th) made up for the deficit, but then struck again Mbappé to (68.). Before and after that, the clearly superior and never giving up Munich missed many opportunities. For the team of coach Hansi Flick it was 277 days after the final victory in Lisbon, the first bankruptcy in the European premier class after 18 wins and one draw.

“We scored the goals at good times. We chalked up a lot, but we were effective up front and have the quality to score the goals,” said German PSG professional Julian Draxler at Sky.

Until the second leg next Tuesday, Bayern, who last lost a competitive game in their own arena in November 2019, still have to rethink their behavior on the defensive. Paris rarely came to the Munich penalty area, but took advantage of its opportunities coldly. Above all, Neymar punished the defending champion’s mistakes in the style of a world star with his overview. Bayern were also lucky that a Draxler hit was denied because of offside (12th).

Flick had chosen the same team with whom he started the top Bundesliga game at RB Leipzig (1-0) last Saturday. Taking in Jérôme Boateng and Alphonso Davies instead of Niklas Süle and Lucas Hernández was “not an option,” he said before the game. However, he then had to send both of them off the bank into heavy snowdrifts for the ailing Leon Goretzka and Süle.

In the end the luck is missing

At this point Bayern were already running behind a deficit. After Joshua Kimmich lost the ball, Neymar ran up and away with the ball, serving Mbappé in the penalty area, whose hard shot was directed a little unhappily into his own goal by Manuel Neuer. In Bayern’s first attack shortly before, Lucas Hernández had failed to goalkeeper Keylor Navas, and Choupo-Moting headed the following corner onto the crossbar.

Bayern were only briefly irritated by the deficit, kept the pressure on Paris high and had the best chances to equalize through Goretzka (19th) and Benjamin Pavard (20th) – but failed both times on Navas. Paris limited itself to countering – and repeatedly made the Munich look bad. After a corner, Neymar lifted the ball over the far too fast moving out back line to Marquinhos, who gave Neuer no chance.

The goal of the good Choupo-Moting, who was still wearing the PSG shirt in the final in Lisbon, was one of the rare situations in which Navas had no chance in the French champions’ goal. In the early stages of the second half, the Costa Rican goalkeeper reacted splendidly against David Alaba and Pavard.

After all, the incessant and at times highly risky run-up rewarded the tirelessly laboring miller before Mbappé completed the French’s first counterattack in the second half. Bayern stayed tuned, winning chance after chance. Alaba, for example, only missed the French goal by centimeters (86th).

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