After a thriller at the Allianz Arena, the French champions returned home with a lead ahead of the rematch • Ambape (3) and Marcinius (28) set up a guest advantage, Mouting (37) and Muller (60) equalized, but then the Frenchman (68) completed a double • The Blues with a foot and a half Finals thanks to goals from Mount and Chillwell
Neymar and Ambape are celebrating in the snow, tonight at the Allianz
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The first meeting tonight (Wednesday) in the quarter-finals between Bayern Munich and PSG was completely different from the previous meeting between the teams - the Champions League final held in August of last year in Lisbon.
Beyond the fact that only 12 of the 22 players who started in the squad at the time also started tonight and Paris managed to change coach, the whole game was completely different.
While then it was a stressful and crowded meeting between two defensively organized teams decided by one goal, last night the two defenses were penetrating, the game was rhythmic and fun and the goals flowed like water.
Accordingly, the result was also different.
This time the French celebrated at the end a 2: 3 victory that gives them an important advance towards the rematch next week.
The opening of the game was a reminder of perhaps the only weakness perhaps that Bayern have this season: its defense.
In almost every game the Bavarians absorb, so of course it happened when Di Maria, Neymar and Mbabane stood on the other side.
Already in the 3rd minute the three of them joined the attack that ended with the Frenchman's 0: 1, and in the 28th minute Neymar once again took advantage of the slowness of Niklas Solla and cooked the 0: 2 for Marcinius.
The heavy snow and load did their thing and in the first half three substitutions were made.
Gorzka and Sola gave way to Boateng and Alfonso Davis, but the significant replacement was that of Under Herrera in place of the injured Marcinius.
Without the Brazilian stopper, Bayern managed to get back into the game despite missing Robert Lewandowski and Serge Gnabry.
Eric Maxim Chopo Moting shrank to 1: 2 when he scored against his former team with a touchdown, and in the second half Thomas Müller turned Yoze Kimish's raise to 2: 2.
Bayern were good and dangerous in those minutes but failed to subdue the great Kaylor Navas who faced 27 threats to his hair, 12 of them to the frame.
PSG kicked a lot less, but one more sheep.
Killian Mbabane, who scored a hat-trick at the Camp Nou in the quarter-finals, added a pair to his resume at the Allianz Arena.
In the 68th minute he embarked on a journey that ended with the 2: 3, which makes a great desire for the reciprocity.
Porto - Chelsea 2: 0
Chelsea took a big step towards the semi-finals when they beat Porto 0: 2 in the away game held in Sevilla due to Corona's restrictions.
The English came after the 2: 5 defeat to West Bromitz, their first loss under the German manager, but against the Portuguese champions in a bad season and without star Sergio Oliveira this had no consequences.
A goal in each half - in the first by Mason Mount and in the second by Ben Chillwell - was enough against an undefeated Porto who failed to subdue Edward Mandy despite reaching a number of situations.
According to yesterday's game, it's hard to see Porto make a historic comeback.
