PSG travels alive to Munich despite lose (1-0) in their stadium against Bayern in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16. And that’s not bad news for the Parisians, who were a doll in the hands of the Bavarians for 70 minutes. In fact, in the tie between the two teams two years ago, Bayern won in Paris and PSG in Munich.
Bayern had only lost one game in Europe since September 2017, against Villarreal, and Paris was not going to be the place where they fell again. Because the feelings of the Frenchmen were terrible, with Messi and Neymar they wandered around the field, until he came out Mbappé with 35 minutes to go to rescue his people like El Cid. He scored two goals, the 73rd minute and the 81st, which were well disallowed for offside. Furthermore, PSG did a lot with just conceding a goal against the Germans. The goal once again belonged to Coman, a PSG youth squad who already scored the goal in the Champions League final in Lisbon that left the French without their long-awaited Champions League title. Now they have three weeks to recover the best version of Messi, Neymar and Mbappé. If they do not succeed, they will again be left out of the Champions League and without the crown that they have been looking for seasons.
At San Siro, a goal by Brahim Díaz for Milan, after seven minutes, gives him a slight advantage (1-0) but very valuable to the Italians before a conservative Tottenham. Conte’s men did not change their proposal, despite going down, and left Kane up top to look for a tie on some lost ball. Deserved local victory, but the tie remains open for the second leg, where the ‘spurs’ must be more ambitious.