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By Rory Smith and Andrew Das
Paris Saint-Germain and RB Leipzig play in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League. A novelty is guaranteed: none of the teams have ever reached the last of the competition, the richest club championship in Europe.
TV: On Tuesday it will be broadcast on CBS All Access and in Spanish by Univision. The start is at 3 p.m. Is.
Today’s winner at Benfica’s East-Dio da Luz will face the winner of Wednesday’s semi-final between Bayern Munich and Lyon at Sporting’s José Alvalade. The maximum will be positioned on Sunday at Benfica.
Unlike other years, the entire champions League knockout round, starting with the quarter-finals, is played in Lisbon, where organizers quarantine, control and control each and every team movement. Rory Smith and Tariq Panja wrote about how they gave us here and the rules that each and every one respects to end the tournament.
The ultimate spark of laughter in this story is this: the shaped ball used today, and in each and every setting, is published in Istanbul 2020. This is the original site of the final. (Turkey will now get the game next spring, if the pandemic allows it).
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It is no exaggeration to say that Paris Saint-Germain was built for those two weeks. Its Qatari owners have literally spent lots and millions of dollars searching (to date uncovered) the Champions League trophy. But seven consecutive French titles and more than a dozen national cups have never been the goal. The Champions League was the goal. That’s why the club incorporated Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Neymar and Kylian Mbappé and everything else, and although it takes the club to the 16th Champions League circular, it has never taken it to the semi-finals before this year. This pandemic knockout tournament is P.S.G.’s most productive chance to win the title. If that doesn’t work, you have to ask yourself: will it ever happen?
The rise of Rb Leipzig is another story. Created in total fabric through the Red Bull energy drinks empire, the club was founded in 2009 and temporarily scaled the pyramid of German football. Not everyone is a fan of effort. All right, let’s be honest: your German rivals can’t stand RB Leipzig and everything it stands for, but the team has a lot to sell: its young and creative coach, Julian Nagelsmann; commitment to the game of offensive football; his conviction to foster talent; Smart and productive recruitment. It’s the Red Bull attachment that shows everyone, even some of his own fans, as Rory wrote today.
Paris St.-Germain did not fail. In front of Atalanta, the Italian upstart whose Champions League career had been a ray of hope in his hometown marked by coronavirus, P.S.G. they gave up early, squandered a handful of opportunities to match and needed two goals in the final minutes to achieve victory. Marquinhos was given the first, in the 90th minute, and Neymar and Kylian Mbappé combined brilliantly to prepare Eric-Maxim Choupo-Moting for the second.
RB Leipzig reserved their position in the semi-finals in an equally dramatic manner and with the same score of 2-1. His triumph over Atletico Madrid came from an American substitute, Tyler Adams, who scored with a shot deflected from afar in the 88th minute.
Their immediate rise in the elite of European football is illustrated more productively through this: the groups have never played a competitive match before today.
Neither team has ever reached the top flight of the Champions League. One of them will be there when they go to sleep tonight.
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