This is France opposed to Germany for the supremacy of Europe.
It would make a lot more sense if the UEFA Euro 2020 festival had taken place this summer and the last two World Cup champions would have faced each other in the final.
(The fact is that Germany and France were integrated into the same euro organization, along with Portugal, in what deserves to be the exhibition when the tournament will be played next summer).)
Focusing on the present, the UEFA Champions League semi-finals to be played on Tuesday and Wednesday will feature two French clubs (Paris Saint-Germain and Lyon) and two Germans (Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig). So far since 1955, no team from the English Premier League, the Italian Serie A or the Spanish La Liga has qualified for the semi-finals. In addition, for the first time since 2005, neither Lionel Messi nor Cristiano Ronaldo will play in the Champions League semi-finals.
Instead, three groups will triumph in the Champions League final for the first time in the club’s history. And then there’s Bayern Munich, the five-time Champions League winner and a big favourite to win when the festival resumes. Their last name in the Champions League came here in 2013, when they beat another German Bundesliga team, Borussia Dortmund, trained through Jurgen Klopp, in the top.
RB Leipzig v Paris Saint-Germain
Tuesday afternoon ET (on CBS All-Access; Univision for Spanish television)
Lyon v Bayern Munich
Wednesday at p.m. ET (on CBS All-Access; Univision for Spanish television)
The semi-finals are in the knockout stage, and the Champions League final is scheduled for Sunday at 3 p.m. And.
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Here are five to follow in this week’s Champions League semi-finals:
It has been 16 years since a French team reached the top of the Champions League (AS Monaco in 2004) and 27 years since a French team won the festival (Olympique de Marseille in 1993).
Paris Saint-Germain has won seven of the last 8 Ligue 1 titles, but has yet to make its way into major European competitions. That’s all the club has advanced, and all it’s rarely to do is win the Champions League trophy will be a failure. The leader of the PSG is Brazilian star Neymar. His teammate Thiago Silva is also in the starting XI, while 2018 World Cup winner Kylian Mbappé and 2014 World Cup winner Julian Draxler are also key players.
Olympique Lyonnais (better known as Lyon), meanwhile, is a surprising semi-finalist after provoking one of the world’s most beloved teams, Manchester City. Lyon will have to win the Champions League to return to the festival next season, as they finished seventh in the Ligue 1 season shortened by the coronavirus.
Just 11 years ago, the club formerly known as SSV Markranst-dt played in the fifth-ranked Regionalligas of Germany when energy beverage manufacturer Red Bull bought the club’s license and renamed it RasenBallsport Leipzig. RB Leipzig is part of a number of football groups owned or sponsored through Red Bull, joined by the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer and FC Red Bull Salzburg of the Austrian Bundesliga.
RB Leipzig temporarily climbed the ranks of the pyramid of German football. It reached 3. The League in 2013 and 2. Bundesliga in 2014 before promotion to the Bundesliga in 2016. Today, in its fourth season as a leading club, RB Leipzig is betting on a spot in the world’s largest club competition. Array In that brief time, RB Leipzig has earned the nickname “Germany’s most hated team”.
In 50 matches played in all competitions of the 2019–2020 season, Bayern Munich have scored 155 incredible purposes. The team enjoys a ridiculous purpose difference of more than 105, thanks in large part to one of the game’s greatest guardians, Manuel Neuer.
With his 82-minute goal in FC Barcelona’s 8-2 knockdown against Bayern Munich on Friday, Robert Lewandowski scored his 54th goal of the season in all competitions. He scored 34 goals in the Bundesliga season, six fewer than Gerd Muller’s 40 record in the 1971–72 season.
For the first time, German coaches will lead 3 Champions League semi-finalists.
Hans-Dieter “Hansi” Flick tries to deliver a continental hat-trick to Bayern Munich, who have already won the DBF-Pokal and Bundesliga (during a record 8 consecutive seasons). Now the team is looking to succeed in their first continental hat-trick since 2013.
Julian Nagelsmann, 33 years old of RB Leipzig, is the youngest coach to triumph in the Champions League semi-finals.
Thomas Tuchel has taken PSG to back-to-back Ligue 1 titles after being in the Bundesliga with Borussia Dortmund, Mainz and FC Augsburg.
Bayern Munich and RB Leipzig are in this position thanks in large part to the contributions of players who run their professional careers in the MLS.
Alphonso Davies, who plays worldwide for Canada, made his professional debut at the age of 15 with the Vancouver Whitecaps, for whom Davies played three seasons before moving to the Bundesliga. This season, Davies has one of the most productive left sides in the world and has won the Bundesliga rookie of the season award. During fc Barcelona’s 8-2 destruction through Bayern Munich, Davies sent Barcelona defender Nelson Semedo in the direction to score his team’s fifth goal, which helped Joshua Kimmich.
American player Tyler Adams made his debut for the New York Red Bulls at age 16 in 2015 and played three seasons for the team before travelling to RB Leipzig in 2019. In the 88th minute of the quarter-final win over Atletico Madrid Adams’ purpose, the first at RB Leipzig, put the team in their first Champions League semi-final.