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)
3 mins: Chance! PSG thread the ball through the inside left channel where it gets flicked on to Kylian Mbappe. He carries the ball into the left side of the box then shoots from a tight angle and fizzes his effort straight into the hands of Yann Sommer.
Decent start from PSG.
Kick off: Bayern 0-0 PSG (1-0 agg)
PSG get the match underway. They roll the ball back to Gianluigi Donnarumma who sends it over to the left wing. The visitors send the ball down the line and win an early throw in.
Bayern vs PSG
These two European heavyweights go head-to-head tonight. Only one will make it through to the last eight. PSG must defeat Bayern Munich in Germany if they hope to go through.
The rain is falling as the players head out onto the pitch. Kick off is up next.
Bayern vs PSG
This is the 13th Champions League meeting between Bayern Munich and PSG, with each side winning six of the previous 12 matches.
It will be the most the French side have ever faced a specific opponent in the competition.
Sportswashing billions can’t stop circus act PSG slipping into farce
Despite Kingsley Coman winning yet another big Champions League game for Bayern Munich against Paris Saint-Germain, this wasn’t really history repeating itself but the latest round of farce.
A 1-0 win for the German champions in this last-16 first leg certainly didn’t feel like the grand football match it had been billed as. It was instead an actual team gradually realising they had more to them than a sportswashing project that looked more like a circus act. PSG certainly look very far off the team that lost a Champions League final to Coman and Bayern in 2020. It meant many of their stars had to go right up to their ultras section at the end of the game, as if in apology.
It was, bar a late flurry inspired by Kylian Mbappe’s introduction, a sorry performance.
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Bayern aiming to win Champions League
Bayern Munich boss, Julian Nagelsmann, says the club’s goal is to win the Champions League this year but recognises that tonight’s match will not be an easy one to win.
“We all want to go very far in the Champions League, but it also always comes down to form on the day with heavyweights like Bayern and PSG,” he said.
“Both teams are at a similar level in terms of individual players. Both have top stars in their ranks. But our group has a very good feeling of being there for each other and giving everything.”
This match won’t decide Mbappe’s future
There were murmurings that Kylian Mbappe could leave PSG if they fail to get into the latter stages of the Champions League this season.
"If I linked my future to the Champions League, without wishing to show a lack of respect to the club, I would have left a long time ago," said Mbappe.
"I don’t think this match will have an impact. I am here and I am very happy to be here. I am not thinking about anything other than making PSG successful."
Mbappe’s great record
Since Kylian Mbappé made his Champions League debut as a 17-year-old with Monaco in the 2016/17 season, he has scored 40 goals in the competition – the sixth-best tally in that period.
Scott Parker sacked by Club Brugge after just 12 matches in charge
Scott Parker has been sacked by Belgian side Club Brugge, after barely more than two months in the job.
The former Bournemouth and Fulham head coach was appointed on 31 December, but won only two of his 12 matches in charge.
He was dismissed following a thumping defeat to Benfica in the Champions League on Tuesday night, with the 5-1 reversal yielding a 7-1 defeat on aggregate.
Scott Parker sacked by Club Brugge after just 12 matches in charge
The former Bournemouth boss has been dismissed for the second time this season
‘Bayern can cause PSG problems'
Sandro Wagner, former Bayern Munich forward has been speaking on DAZN and has backed his former club to do well tonight.
“Bayern could have by a bigger margin in the first leg. If Paris are not fully dedicated to defending tonight, Bayern will cause them problems with their pressing.”
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