There are the Germans, those of Bayern Munich, the French of Paris Saint-Germain and there is also an Italian, the Venetian referee Daniele Orsato. It seems like a joke, but it is the scenario of the 2019/20 Champions League final, the most troubled, difficult to organize and perhaps controversial in football history, starting from 1956, when the trophy - then it was called the Champions Cup - was placed up for grabs for the first time. It will be played in Lisbon, not in Istanbul as expected when Coronavirus was still just a strange word and not a pandemic.
For PSG it is the first final in history, for the Germans 11 / a, with five wins and as many defeats. It will be played behind closed doors, and it is the first time for the last act of the maximum Uefa tournament, but above all of an appointment. In a surreal atmosphere, but now sadly consolidated, the last year of a competitive season will take place that no one will ever forget and which ends when autumn is less than a month away. A thing never seen. Generally, in this period, the European Super Cup was awarded, not the Champions of the 'previous' season. But so be it. It's football in the time of the Coronavirus.
"We are here to play the final and win it. Obviously it is the biggest challenge of my career. It is difficult to describe my emotions: I am exhausted and happy. We will not do anything special, because the match is already special." It is in every sense, especially for the Parisians who had never gone this far in the maximum Uefa tournament. To trace the last triumph of the team from the French capital, it is necessary to go back to the 1995/96 season and the defunct Cup Winners' Cup won in the final against Rapid Vienna by the then team led by Luis Miguel Fernandez.
Bayern Munich is certainly more used to this type of match, since the days of the Mayers, Beckenbauer and Gerd Mueller. "The idea is to impose our playing attitude: we will try to keep the line of pressing and defense high. Then, we will see what happens. It is a final, an open game. I don't think I will have to change much compared to previous performances. . We will not have to give space to our opponents. We have seen their games, we have studied them well: PSG is a very similar team to Barcelona; Lyon are another type of team, "Hans-Dieter Flick pointed out. Hansi ', the coach who changed the fate of the Bavarians, after taking over from Niko Kovac's bench.
The Germans are on the hunt for the 'triple', after having won the Bundesliga and the German Cup; PSG will even aim for pokerissimo, after having got their hands on Ligue 1, the French Cup and the French League Cup. The Champions League would be the icing on the cake. A not impossible dream for Neymar (who won the trophy in 2015 in the final against Juve, when he was playing for Barcelona) and his teammates. The playmaker received the support of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, who wrote to him "we are all here to cheer for you".