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Press comments on the Champions League victory: "Bavaria is the new king of Europe"

2020-08-24T07:52:16.473Z


Neymar disappointing, Neuer gigantic: After the Champions League title for FC Bayern, the international press vacillates between tears and frustration, recognition - and homage. The overview.


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Took a souvenir from the title: Manuel Neuer

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FRANCE:

"L'Equipe": "Neymar was very disappointing, Neuer gigantic. The Brazilian missed his match, while the German goalkeeper made a decisive contribution to Bayern's win against PSG."

"Le Parisien": "After a decent first half, Neymar lost his footing like his team on Sunday. It wasn't his final. The phenomenon that had become almost supernatural in the last few games has become human again, almost ordinary. Neymar has after his 2015 win in Barcelona no further Champions League title added to his track record. Compared to the German metronome, the pretty Parisian machine unfortunately lacked success, it was tense at first and then got stuck in the second half. As a symbol for this dead end, the Brazilian star finished the game in tears. Tears of sadness and frustration he was not the only one to shed. Many of us believed in his talent. And some had hoped that the gods of football would stand by PSG this year. That Awakening is painful. "

"Midi Libre": "The dream is over. Like Saint-Etienne, like Olympique Marseille, like so many others before them, PSG lost their first Champions League final. Captured by the event, defeated by Bayern, the long experience with these big meetings. The Bavarian club surgically mastered this final with possession and realism to win their sixth title and confirm their status as the big favorites of this final in Lisbon. "

"Liberation": "Despite a lively first half, the Paris club lost 1-0 to Bayern Munich on Sunday evening - and have to wait before winning the flagship competition of European football. (...) And Neymar went under : Isolated from the German organization, annoyed by the advancing season, he was not able to pull the rabbit out of his hat like usual. "

ITALY:

"Gazzetta dello Sport" : "For Bayern it is the price for absolute supremacy: Nobody has ever managed to win all Champions League games, from the first in the group to the last. The end of this endless football season, the is shaped by the coronavirus pandemic, crowns Hans-Dieter Flick, the man who took over the helm after Kovac's release and restored a team that was in an identity crisis, just as Jupp Heynckes did in the past (... ) The finale, which was only partially spectacular, has Coman's hair and Neuer gloves: in the end, it was they who made the difference. "

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Neymar

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SPAIN:

"Mundo Deportivo": "Bayern sink PSG and complete their triple. Bayern Munich are the new European champions. In a final that did not meet expectations, the German team managed to achieve their triple thanks to a lone goal by Coman in the 59th Neymar and Mbappé managed to bring PSG the long-awaited first Champions League victory, because when they tried, especially in the first half, they always met New, a guarantor between the posts. "

"El País": "Bayern are back in Europe. Bayern Munich used their vast experience against PSG and won the sixth European Cup in their history. A single goal by Coman (...) was enough to crown the Bavarian team again as European champions which they had not achieved since 2013. The most unusual Champions League in history, the first without fans in the stands, ended with the old football rules that were represented by Bayern. "

"Marca": "Imperial Bavaria !!! Bavaria is the new king of Europe. The team of Beckenbauer, Matthäus, Torpedo Müller, Breitner, Maier and other ball gods won the sixth title. It took Coman, a Parisian, a former PSG Player, a cruel collision. It was not Mbappé's night, and especially Neymar, whom the Germans treated as if he were a complete stranger. In a red carpet match, veteran winger Coman appeared, who was in this strange one Welt landed a magical header in the second half. "

"As": "There is no place for PSG in the chosen club of champions, a place that cannot be bought with money, but that results from Bayern's career. Coman's goal, a little poor for a final, brought Bavaria the sixth champion title and confirmed them as the currently indomitable kings of Europe. "

La Vanguardia: "Neuer neutralized the best Neymar and Kylian Mbappé couldn't live up to his fame. None of the PSG stars could leave their mark."

"El Mundo": "Football perfection became flesh in an unexpected summer final of the Champions League. Bayern honored its tradition and character, crowning it with a goal from Kingsley Coman on D-Day, its undisputed status as the best football team in the world and left Paris Saint-German returns in a frustration that seems to have no end (...) "

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There was praise for Kingsley Coman

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AUSTRIA:

"Kurier": "A man was the center of attention, to whom little attention was paid before this final duel. (...) Kingsley Coman. Bayern coach Hansi Flick had the lightning-fast French, who was only a substitute, surprisingly in the And this move should pay off: Coman not only caused a lot of activity and unrest on the left side, he was also there after the break with a cross from Joshua Kimmich and headed for the decisive goal. "

SWITZERLAND:

"Tagesanzeiger": "A winner could not have been more worthy. The Munich team won all eleven games and scored 43 goals. They are the first undefeated champion since Manchester United 2007/2008. The corona break could not harm the German record champions either : Since the restart in mid-May, Bavaria has won all 15 competition games. "

UNITED STATES:

"The Washington Post": "Kingsley Coman, a Parisian and former PSG talent, scored early in the second half. Manuel Neuer, the brilliant goalkeeper, made sure the lead was held."

"The New York Times": "Bayern were - by a shadow - the better team in a final that produced a dish that was clearly different in all its ingredients. Two attacking teams got together in Lisbon to play a game create - a compelling game, an engaging game - that was more of a slow-heated drama than a quick-fire conversation. "

"ESPN": "Sure, Bavaria is profiting from it, a super club and fully paid member of this one percentage that has bigger, better paid and more talented cadres than almost everyone else. This imbalance in strength and resources has to be addressed. But that explains not what we've seen since the turn of the year, especially when you compare it to everything that went wrong in the first few months of the season. So yeah, they are deserved winners and more so, winners to like. Something, that not all Bayern teams in the past have managed. "

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Source: spiegel

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