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 vs PSG
PSG are in the house. They’ll be heading out for their warm-ups soon.
Bayern vs PSG
Eric Maximin Choupo-Moting was a Paris player between August 2018 and 5th October 2020, before he joined Bayern.
He won two Ligue 1 titles and the 2019/20 Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue with Paris, scoring nine goals in 51 games for the club.
He has 15 goals in his last 18 Bayern games.
Mbappe in Europe
Kylian Mbappe will provide PSG’s biggest threat tonight of that there is no doubt.
He has scored 40 goals in 60 Champions League appearances for Monaco (six) and PSG (34) and is only eight goals away from the all-time top 10 European Cup/Champions League goalscorers list.
PSG’s Achraf Hakimi indicted on rape allegation by French prosecutors
Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi has been indicted on rape charges, French prosecutors said Friday.
The prosecutors office in the Paris suburb of Nanterre said Hakimi was questioned on Thursday by investigators probing rape allegations. He was then indicted by an investigating judge and placed under judicial supervision.
Hakimi‘s lawyer, Fanny Colin, said the player “strongly denied accusations made against him,” in a written message to The Associated Press.
Colin said her client being indicted is an “obligatory step for any person being accused of rape” and will allow Hakimi to defend himself by giving him access to the case. Colin also said that some elements collected by the judicial police show, according to her, that Hakimi “in this case has been subjected to a racketeering attempt.”
Achraf Hakimi indicted on rape allegation by French prosecutors
French prosecutors say Paris Saint-Germain defender Achraf Hakimi has been indicted on rape charges
Nagelsmann on facing PSG
Bayern Munich manager Julian Nagelsmann spoke about what it feels like to take on PSG in the Champions League saying: "Paris have a clear identity and habits that you can exploit, but they can hit you on the counter if you get it wrong.
"We need to avoid taking too long to settle into the game. One job we have will be to avoid having too much space behind our back line.
“It will be important to cut off passes to [Lionel] Messi and to keep him from changing direction.”
The difference between the teams
Kingsley Coman’s second half volley in Paris is the only difference between the teams as PSG look to overturn Bayern Munich’s one goal lead tonight.
PSG on the verge of history
This is Paris Saint-Germain’s 15th Champions League campaign. They are just one short of Lyon’s French record of 16.
It is PSG’s 11th outing in Europe’s top flight in succession - also one shy of Lyon’s unbroken run of appearances from 2000/01 to 2011/12.
They have now reached the knockout rounds in all of their last 11 seasons in the competition, last failing to progress beyond the group stage in 2004/05.
Bayern vs PSG team changes
Julian Nagelsmann makes three changes to the Bayern Munich side that defeated PSG in the first leg of this tie. Benjamin Pavard, Joao Cancelo and Leroy Sane are replaced with Alphonso Davies, Josip Stanišić and Thomas Muller.
There are also three changes to the PSG team from that first leg defeat.
Vitinha, Kylian Mbappe and Fabian Ruiz come into the side with Warren Zaire-Emery, Carlos Soler and Neymar dropping out.
Kylian Mbappe breaks PSG scoring record with 201st goal
Kylian Mbappe became Paris St Germain’s all-time leading scorer with his 201st goal in Saturday’s 4-2 Ligue 1 victory over Nantes.
The 24-year-old France star drew level with Edinson Cavani thanks to two goals against Marseille last weekend.
He had to wait until injury time at the end of this game for his moment, turning smartly and slotting into the bottom corner to add gloss to a victory that puts PSG 11 points clear at the top of the table.
Lionel Messi opened the scoring in the 12th minute and the leaders looked in complete control when Jaouen Hadjam put through his own net soon after but Nantes fought back to equalise through Ludovic Blas and Ignatius Ganago.
It took until the hour mark for PSG to move back in front, Mbappe setting up Danilo Pereira before applying the coup de grace himself.
Kylian Mbappe breaks PSG scoring record with 201st goal
The 24-year-old struck in injury time to move past Edinson Cavani’s mark.
Bayern vs PSG line-ups
Bayern Munich XI: Sommer; Stanišić, Upamecano, De Ligt; Coman, Kimmich, Goretzka, Davies; Muller, Musiala; Choupo-Moting
PSG XI: Donnarumma; Ramos, Marquinhos, Danilo; Nuno Mendes, Ruiz, Vitinha, Verrattl, Hakimi; Messi, Mbappe
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