The first 'real' Champions League final in 22 years. In fact, it was not the case since the 1997-'98 season, Real Madrid-Juventus 1-0 with a goal by Mijatovic, that in the final act of the highest European competition two teams that, in the previous season, had won their respective national championships. This year, however, it will be like this, a return to the European Cups of the past, with the challenge between two teams, Paris SG and Bayern Munich, which Ligue 1 and Bundesliga have dominated for years. The challenge for the domination of Europe between France and Germany will have Italy as referee: Orsato directs.
PSG will count on the enormous talent of the Neymar-Mbappé duo, capable of anything if on a day of grace, and of the Ballon d'Or if this year had been awarded, but in France they are also counting on the fact that "Lyon has shown that Bayern are not unbeatable ". It may be so, but the semifinal between the Bavarians and the formation of Rudi Garcia ended 3-0 and the numbers also guide the prediction. Flick's Bayern have not lost an official match since December 7, have won the last 21 games of all competitions, and have scored 158 goals in 51 games this season. The Lewandowski-Gnabry duo has already reached 24 goals in this Champions League, 15 the Pole and 9 the German, thus beating the record of achievements in pairs that was of CR7 and Bale who scored in Real Madrid winner in 2013-'14 23 goals. And the Bayern duo still has one game left. That maybe will increase the regrets at Lazio if Gnabry decides to give a show again: when he played in Werder Bremen the Olympic silver striker in Rio 2016 was close to moving to the Biancoceleste, then the deal faded for a handful of millions. So Gnabry took Bayern and now the boy is part of a perfect football machine, which if he were to beat PSG in the final on Sunday, would take home the second treble in his history after that of 2013.