LISBON, Portugal (AP) – Kingsley Coman led Bayern Munich to sixth place in the Champions League on Sunday, scoring against the formation years of Paris Saint-Germain to seal a 1-0 win in the first amateur final.
While Bayern won their first final since 2013, PSG has yet to lift the European Cup despite spending more than $1 billion on players in nine years.
More than $500 million spent on Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Angel Di Maria, however, the PSG seemed far from formidable or menacing opposed to the Bavarian giants who felt more confident in the largest level of European interclub football.
While the expensive three men were thwarted in the face of the goal, it was an extreme that grew up in Paris and began his career at PSG who struck.
Coman, 24, was then discovered at the fringed defense unmarked pole and in a position to face a Joshua Kimmich center in the 59th minute.
It was Bayern’s 43rd goal in one of the best European crusades that saw Bayern as the first team to win all 11 Champions League matches.
He crowned a transformation this season with Hansi Flick, who emerged from the shadows in November, with a promotion to senior training with Bayern fourth in the Bundesliga.
The season is over, 3 months after what was at stake due to the coronavirus pandemic outbreak, with the 3 times Bayern winners, as in 2013.
The European Cup joins the Bundesliga trophy, won for the eighth consecutive season, and the German Cup.
Bayern sign for fallen champions Liverpool as six-time European champions, only AC Milan (seven) and Real Madrid (13).
It is the first final to finish 1-0 since Real Madrid beat Juventus in 1998, which is also the last to provide groups classified as national champions.
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But the fact that the PSG makes a contingent song around the directors gallery has been silenced in a largely empty stadium due to restrictions on coronaviruses.
And when the final beep rang out, Neymar in tears hugged through his Rival Bayern, David Alaba.
PSG football superstars were subjected to a maxim that lacked the same entertainment as pop stars before the game.
It is not that PSG lacked opportunities to take the lead in a final that deserves to have been played in Istanbul in May, than in the Portuguese capital at the end of August, when the seasons usually start without ending.
Only the presence of “Istanbul” on the ball in the form that Neymar hit Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer in the 18th reminded us here of the revival of local imposed through the pandemic.
Neymar provoked the movement that saw Ander Herrera and Di María combine, but the Argentine can simply attack.
And an exchange between Herrera and Mbappé before half-time ended with a header from the French striker.
Perhaps the only wonder is that there is no 56th purpose of Bayern striker Robert Lewandowski’s season.
For once, his contribution to the scoreboard is not obligatory because this season like no other ended with Bayern’s 21st consecutive win on a 30-match unbearable streak.