Bayern Munich 2-0 Paris St-Germain (3-0 agg): Hosts cruise into Champions League quarter-finals

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting played for Paris St-Germain against Bayern Munich successful the 2020 Champions League final

Bayern Munich cruised into the quarter-finals of the Champions League arsenic they condemned Paris St-Germain to different last-16 exit.

PSG person present been eliminated from the contention astatine this signifier successful 5 of their erstwhile 7 campaigns and this represented different dismal nonaccomplishment for the Ligue 1 leaders and their under-pressure caput manager Christophe Galtier.

Despite boasting a postulation of stars, the Parisians not lone failed to people implicit 2 legs but were saved the embarrassment of a 4 oregon five-goal aggregate decision by a VAR determination and offside emblem ruling retired an earlier Choupo-Moting header and Sadio Mane's stoppage-time effort.

Six-time European champions Bayern had begun the evening nervously defending a one-goal first-leg pb and guarding against the dual menace posed by Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi.

However, portion PSG's prima guardant enactment sporadically threatened aboriginal connected neither was fixed the clip oregon abstraction to inflict immoderate harm connected a disciplined and businesslike Bayern side, who ran retired comfy winners.

The lone large interest for the German champions arrived successful the archetypal play and was wholly self-inflicted.

Goalkeeper Yann Sommer - who was caught successful possession by Achraf Hakimi - presented visiting midfielder Vitinha with an unfastened extremity but defender Matthijs de Ligt made a superb sliding involution for the location side.

The gully for the past 8 of the contention takes spot connected 17 March successful Nyon, Switzerland.

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Sommer's mistake should person been punished and provided PSG with the momentum to spell connected and triumph the tie, successful the aforesaid mode that Real Madrid did against them astir precisely 12 months ago.

However, Vitinha's anemic decorativeness was symptomatic of a broadside that has promised overmuch but excessively often failed to present connected large European nights - and who failed to people successful a knockout necktie for the archetypal clip since the 1994-95 semi-finals against AC Milan.

Sergio Ramos and Mbappe some saw second-half efforts good saved by Swiss planetary Sommer but by past the harm had been done and Bayern were successful the ascendancy.

The German side's power and spot successful reserve was besides underlined by their changes with Julian Nagelsmann capable to present Gnabry, Mane, Joao Cancelo and Leroy Sane portion bringing disconnected the likes of Thomas Muller and the awesome Jamal Musiala.

The interaction of Portugal planetary Cancelo - who is connected indebtedness astatine Bayern from Manchester City - was immediate, arsenic helium laid connected a extremity for Gnabry wrong 3 minutes of his instauration to enactment the necktie beyond doubt.