Champions League: Bayern Munich made history in PSG victory

The final score of 1-0 was over enough for the German giants Bayern Munich to take gold after winning the Champions League final.

Bayern Munich becomes the first club in Champions League history to go from the first matchday to the finals unbeaten and win every fixture in the process. Amazing and fun stat to help understand how good achievement this was for the German outfit?

Munich was knocked out by last season’s champions Liverpool in the round of 16. To go on the next season and being named the best team in Europe by a country mile is nothing short of marvellous.

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How PSG did not score remains a mystery. Both teams started the first 45 minutes shaky in defence with them testing both Manuel Neuer and Keylor Navas multiple times in between the sticks.

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The first half saw the French take charge more often than the winners but a monumental miss by France golden boy, Kylian Mbappe, shifted the momentum in Munich’s favour. The first half ended goalless with Mbappe giving Neuer a backpass and Robert Lewandowski finding the upright.

It took as long as 60 minutes before the deadlock was broken and done so by the biggest question mark of the game. Hans-Dieter Flick was heavily criticised for starting Kingsley Coman on the left-wing. It was his first UCL start since their 3-0 triumph over Chelsea in the round of 16 back in February.

Following that, Coman played a combined total of 52 minutes of Champions League football, coming on as a substitution in the quarter-finals and semi-finals. He made his manager proud with the only goal which was the winning goal. A stroke of brilliance from the boss, Flick. Something he will be remembered by for decades to come.

Kingsley finished off the perfect Kimmich cross with a header to put them up 1-0. It was easy to see, whoever scored first of the duo was probably going to go on and win it. The Parisians did well to get into the opposition box several times but could do nothing with the opportunities they created.

At the end of the 90 minutes, Bayern deservingly won the match and the gold medal. Only a flawless performance from Paris Saint-Germain would have taken the champions’ spot and they didn’t have that, as they faced a well-constructed German unit.

Bayern’s Champions League run

Besides becoming the first European team to go unscratched throughout the competition, the Bavarians were also the highest scorers with 43 goals in total. In the mix, they capped off the biggest win in a knockout round, beating a disjointed Barcelona 8-2.

Thankfully for Messi and co. there was only one leg to endure the terror that was Bayern Munich. Sitting at the summit and leading from the front, Lewandowski. He tops the chart as the Champions League’s best hitman in front of goal. He scored 15 goals and the closest to him was Erling Haaland with 10. No player was in his zone this season.

Adding to the Polish greatness, he shares the top spot with PSG’s Angel Di Maria for most assists this campaign with six assists. That is a goal contribution of 21 goals to the clubs 43 for the run. That’s a 50% direct involvement in their trip to the finals. SIMPLY THE BEST!

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On the other end of the pitch, Manuel Neuer became the first goalkeeper to keep a clean sheet in a Champions League final and a World Cup final. Making sure they were taking no prisoners, Bayern stopped a ruthless Paris side from scoring a single goal.

The first team to do so since Manuel Pellegrini’s Man City. That was back in 2016. They went 34 games without being held up in front of goal. All in all… A great ending to the longest UEFA tournament in the history of its existence.

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