Serge Gnabry scored a double and Robert Lewandowski added a third to continue his winning streak in consecutive Champions League matches while Bayern remained on track to repeat their 2013 hat-trick.
The offensive dominance of this ridiculous crusade as Lewandowski leads all the goalscorers of the festival by a margin of five goals with 15 strikes. He has scored 55 goals at all festivals this season.
Bayern have won their 10 games in Europe and scored a total of goals.
Robert Lewandowski scores the head against Lyon. (Photo via FRANCK FIFE / POOL / AFP) Source: AFP
Gnabry gave Bayern a quick lead in the Lisbon semi-final with a difficult shot, then doubled the Germans’ lead with a first-half kick before being replaced by Philippe Coutinho for the last 15 minutes.
Seconds after a shot from Lyon striker Karl Ekambi hit Bayern’s pole, Gnabry opened the scoring skillfully.
After catching a long-range pass from Joshua Kimmich, Gnabry intervened from the right wing, beat two defenders and fired his shot out of the success of Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes with an 18-minute finale.
Then, 25-year-old Gnarthrough doubled Bayern’s lead in the minute through a touch of the house after Lopes dropped a shot from Lewandowksi.
His double leaves Gnabry with nine Champions League goals this season, adding 4 in Tottenham’s very good 7-2 takedown by Bayern in the organisational phase.
After Bayern’s defeat at Tottenham last October, Gnabry, a former Arsenal winger, was unable to tweet “North London is RED !!!”.
He scored two more goals in London last February in a 3-0 win against Chelsea in the last away games.
Gnabry also scored Bayern’s third in Friday’s jaw-dropping 8-2 rout of Barcelona in the quarter-finals.
Gnabry is the third top scorer of the season in the Lewandowski Champions League (15), which controlled Bayern’s third goal against Lyon, and Dortmund teenager Erling Braut Haaland (10).
By helping Bayern win an eighth consecutive name and winning the German Cup this season, Gnabry has scored 23 goals in forty-five matches in all competitions.
Serge Gnabry celebrates with teammate Thomas Mueller after scoring his team’s goal at the moment. (Photo by Miguel A. Lopes / Pool Getty Images) Source: Getty Images
On Wednesday he celebrated his very good first game by making the gesture of removing a spoon into a jar.
Earlier this season, he revealed, “I’m an NBA fan, especially James Harden.”
The game maker of the Houston Rockets celebrates with the same gesture of agitation when he fires a shot.
Born in Stuttgart, Gnabry joined the Bundesliga at the age of 12. From the Stuttgart academy, where he played alongside his German teammates Timo Werner and Joshua Kimmich, Gnabry’s performances attracted Arsenal.
He joined the Gunners after turning 16 in 2011 and promoted to Arsenal’s reserve after less than a season with the U-18 team.
“I went to England because everyone told me not to go, that I couldn’t get there. I sought this challenge,” Gnabry says of his time in north London.
After a few appearances for Arsenal, Gnabry spent the 2015/16 season on loan at West Bromwich Albion before being selected to the German Olympic team.
He won a silver medal at the age of 21 and finished as the most sensible goalscorer with six goals at the 2016 Rio de Janeiro games when Germany lost to Brazil, led by Neymar, in the final.
His senior debut followed in November 2016 with a hat-trick at minnows San Marino in Germany’s 8-0 away romp in a World Cup qualifier.
He returned to Germany for 2016/17 with Werder Bremen, where he scored goals in 27 appearances with Bundesliga wrestlers.
Bayern bought it in 2017, but promptly ceded it to Hoffenheim, before Gnabry, in spite of everything, joined the German giants for 2018/19.
He has replaced Arjen Robben, whose winning goal in the London final gave Bayern their last Champions League title in 2013.
— AFP