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 Munich brush aside PSG as French giants fail again in Champions League
Former Paris St Germain forward Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting helped knock his old side out of the Champions League as Bayern Munich sealed a dominant 3-0 aggregate victory.
Leading 1-0 from the first leg in Paris, the 33-year-old scored the opener in a 2-0 second-leg victory to send the Bundesliga giants through to the quarter-finals.
The Cameroon international benefited from a defensive mistake from 17-year-old substitute El Chadaille Bitshiabu to score just past the hour mark before Serge Gnabry put the seal on another European failure for the big-spending French club.
Bitshiabu, who had only come on at half-time to replace Nordi Mukiele – who lasted just nine minutes himself after replacing the injured Marquinhos – tried to play out from the left-back position but put Marco Verratti under pressure and he was robbed by Thomas Muller.
Bayern Munich brush aside PSG as French giants fail again in Champions League
PSG failed to get past the last 16 stage for the fifth time in seven years.
Bayern Munich defeat PSG to reach Champions League quarter-finals
Reaction from Kingsley Coman: “It was very tough especially in the first half, they played well. We spoke at half-time, put right some of the problems, and we were more compact in the second half. I think we deserved the win. The substitutes did a great job.”
Bayern Munich defeat PSG to reach Champions League quarter-finals
Thomas Müller speaking to DAZN: “In a game like that, there are always moments when you need to suffer and create a little luck. We were more controlled in our defending in the second half. We played the better game and ultimately deserved to win.”
Bayern Munich defeat PSG to reach Champions League quarter-finals
Reaction from Danilo: “Bayern are a physical team, they win lots of duels. We lost too many tonight, and that made things tough. I don’t have words.
“Unfortunately, Bayern were too strong. We had chances in the first half, we didn’t take them, and in the Champions League, that makes things difficult. It’s tough to go out like this, but that’s the Champions League.”
Bayern Munich defeat PSG to reach Champions League quarter-finals
Paris have been knocked out of the Round of 16 in five of the last seven editions of the Champions League, at least two more times than any other side over that period.
Bayern Munich defeat PSG to reach Champions League quarter-finals
Paris Saint-Germain conceded at least once in all eight of their Champions League matches this season; the first time they have failed to keep a clean sheet in a single campaign in the competition.
Bayern Munich defeat PSG to reach Champions League quarter-finals
Five of Bayern Munich’s last six goals against Paris in the Champions League have been scored by players who previously played for PSG.
Three for Eric Choupo-Moting, two for Kingsley Coman.
Bayern Munich defeat PSG to reach Champions League quarter-finals
Bayern Munich defeat PSG to reach Champions League quarter-finals
PSG are knocked out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage once again. Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi are out of Europe, they’ll have to try and earn the French side the European glory they want next year.
Bayern Munich go through and are certainly one of the favourites to win the whole thing now.
FT Bayern 2-0 PSG (3-0 agg)
Subscribe to Independent Premium to bookmark this article
Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Premium subscription today.
Join our commenting forum
Join thought-provoking conversations, follow other Independent readers and see their replies