The main stage of the UEFA Champions League has already taken a step beyond the equator, so the turn of decisive confrontations has come. And not every team finished the last four games in this tournament the way it was planned from the beginning. Bayern Munich, for example, on its way to another home final of the European Cup, has already lost twice, and in a row.

And the last of these defeats, against Catalan Barcelona (1:4), was so painful for Vincent Kompany’s team that after that match, none of the next six opponents of the “Recordmaster” managed to score against him, and the Munich team all those meetings won France’s Paris Saint-Germain, Bayern’s fifth-ranked opponent, instead received as difficult a calendar as it was possible in principle, and approached the reporting meeting with an average of just one point in previous meetings.

It’s safe to say that the Kompany team usually dominated in terms of attacking on their own field, but things weren’t as easy for the Munich team going forward as they would have liked. PSG quickly got used to the tempo offered by their opponents and for a long time in the middle of the first half we didn’t talk about the home team’s moments, while the visitors started to create the first problems for Neuer.

However, Bayern avoided all the traps and returned to quality attacks at the end of the half. Even standards from Kimmich finally began to reach their goal, and in the 38th minute, the swampy goalkeeper of the French team made a mistake when he tried to knock out the ball with his fists, which spun into the goal from a corner on the left flank. Kim was nearby and did not waste his opportunity to finish with a header, and in the next attack the “Record Master” could have scored a second time, but with shots into the plane of the goal of his native team in Koman, despite the very high-quality football before the break in his performance, he somehow did not gone

The beginning of the second half of the match was quiet. And then in the 57th minute, Dembele played a tackle on the right wing of a foreign penalty against Davies, received a second yellow, and left his team in the minority and with significantly reduced chances of salvation.

However, the calculation of the Kompany team was to maintain the advantage of the score on the scoreboard and, if they had to risk, to bring the positional attacks at least to a shot on goal. Bayern managed to create a few good moments in this way: Koman had another opportunity to score, but he stubbornly did not want to hit the goal, but Musiala hit in the 75th minute, but only on the right post. In the end, PSG kept the opponents’ defense under tension for a while, but the Munich team did not panic.

In the next round, Bayern Munich will visit Shakhtar Donetsk, while French Paris Saint-Germain will visit Austrian RB Salzburg.