Bayern Munich vs PSG LIVE score: Champions League result and reaction as Messi and Mbappe crash out
Bayern Munich 2-0 PSG (3-0 agg): Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe exit the Champions League at the last-16 stage once again
Bayern Munich forward Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting scored against his former club and Serge Gnabry added a late second as the Germans beat PSG 2-0 on Wednesday to reach the Champions League quarter-finals.
The 33-year-old Choupo-Moting, who played for PSG from 2018-20, tapped in from a Leon Goretzka assist in the 61st minute.
Substitute Gnabry struck on the break in the 89th minute to seal the hosts’ 3-0 aggregate win following their 1-0 victory in the first leg in Paris.
The result established Bayern as one of the title favourites going into the last eight and left PSG’s star-studded squad including world champion Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe without a shot at Europe’s premier club trophy for another year.
Relive all the action from the Champions League last-16 as Bayern Munich end PSG’s Champions League dreams:
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
31 mins: Bayern keep hold of possession before Musiala makes a decent run into space and receives a ball that gets floated over the top.
He tries to switch the play quickly out to Alphonso Davies on the left wing but is wayward with his pass and sends the ball out of play.
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
29 mins: Bayern have won all seven of their Champions League games this season. The last time they won the opening seven matches of a Champions League campaign was in 2020 when they went on to win the title.
PSG meanwhile have never progressed through the knockout rounds when they’ve lost the first leg.
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
25 mins: Close! Fabian Ruiz goes on a fine run through the left side of the pitch and picks out Messi in the middle of the box. Messi has two or three stabs at the ball as Bayern throw men back to defend before the ball is eventually smothered by Sommer.
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
24 mins: Since 2012/13, Bayern Munich have won all 10 Bundesliga titles. PSG have won Ligue 1 in eight of those 10 years.
The German and French champions seem evenly matched through these early stages but Bayern have that aggregate goal which gives them the advantage.
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
21 mins: Chance! Matthijs de Ligt leaves a gap in the Bayern defence as he strides forward to lunge into a tackle on Lionel Messi. Messi goes down but not before squirting the ball over to Kylian Mbappe.
Mbappe’s first touch is poor though and he knocks it to the byline before smoking a shot into the near side-netting. A better first touch from the French striker and he would have had a good chance to open the scoring there.
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
18 mins: The first corner of the game comes to PSG. Lionel Messi swings the set piece over to the back post but Yann Sommer leaps towards the ball and confidently plucks it out of the air.
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
15 mins: It’s been an intriguing if slightly lacklustre opening quarter of an hour. Bayern are controlling more of the ball now and Leon Goretzka gets off their first attempt at goal with a shot from the edge of the box.
His effort bounces just in front of Donnarumma who needs a couple of attempts to scoop it up.
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
12 mins: PSG seem to realise that a Bayern Munich goal would make an already difficult task close to impossible. Whenever the host have the ball inside the final third, Paris always have men back to defend.
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting and Jamal Musiala link-up to get the ball to the tip of the ‘D’ but Choupo-Moting gets swarmed and loses possession before he can shoot.
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
9 mins: Leon Goretzka evades a challenge from Sergio Ramos and manages to run the ball through the middle of the pitch. He looks to square it along the edge of the box but his pass is intercepted and the visitors clear their lines.
Bayern haven’t yet get into their stride but they’ve limited PSG’s attacking capabilites.
Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
6 mins: PSG are set up with two wingbacks in Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes but both players are sitting quite deep to make the French champions more defensively solid.
Lionel Messi receives the ball just outside the box and looks to slip it into Mbappe but Dayot Upamecano steps up and nicks the ball off the World Cup winner.
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