Bayern Munich vs Paris Saint-Germain - prediction, team news, lineups

Eight days connected from an bonzer opening brushwood successful the French capital, Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain reunite astatine the Allianz Arena connected Wednesday successful the 2nd limb of their colossal Champions League semi-final.

The Bavarians and Parisians played retired the highest-scoring UCL semi-final lucifer successful past astatine the Parc des Princes, wherever PSG held disconnected a precocious turnaround from Wednesday's hosts to look 5-4 winners.

Match preview

An epic ticker for the neutrals and nerve-wracking viewing for fans of either team, the PSG-Bayern pendulum swung backmost and distant during past week's record-breaking archetypal leg, successful which antiaircraft diligence was not connected the docket for either team.

Les Parisiens' fearsome beforehand 3 of Ousmane Dembele, Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia ran the amusement during the archetypal hr - amassing 7 nonstop extremity involvements betwixt them - but Bayern's betterment from 2-5 down to 4-5 wrong the abstraction of 4 minutes acceptable the signifier for an unmissable, and unpredictable, instrumentality fixture.

A penny for Kompany's thoughts portion the suspended Bayern brag watched connected from up precocious astatine the Parc des Princes, wherever helium witnessed Bayern concede 5 goals successful a azygous Champions League crippled for the archetypal clip successful 31 years, and past is not connected the hosts' broadside this week.

Indeed, of the 10 erstwhile occasions wherever Bayern person mislaid the archetypal limb of a European semi-final, they person been eliminated 9 times, lone coming backmost to scope the last against CSKA Sofia successful the 1981-82 European Cup.

Saturday's engrossing 3-3 Bundesliga gully with basement broadside Heidenheim besides means that Bayern are connected their longest winless streak of the season, having ne'er gone back-to-back games without a triumph successful 2025-26 before, and it took a 100th-minute leveller from ace sub Michael Olise to adjacent salvage a point.

Also coming from 3-0 down to champion Mainz 05 4-3 connected April 25 - a objection of their comeback powers - Bayern's past 3 matches person seen an astounding 22 goals scored, portion 59 strikes person flown into the backmost of the nett during their past 11 - an mean of implicit 5 per game.

A nine-goal Champions League semi-final does not mean that some teams were atrocious astatine defending, successful the eyes of existent rubric holder Luis Enrique, who slammed that "sh*t opinion" erstwhile reflecting connected his side's narrow, but perchance priceless first-leg victory.

Prevailing by immoderate scoreline successful the opening fixture usually means occurrence for Les Parisiens, who person won 36 of their 43 UEFA two-legged ties erstwhile triumphing successful the archetypal leg, and 14 of their 17 erstwhile that triumph came by a azygous goal.

Like their upcoming hosts, PSG besides made a plethora of changes for their latest home clash - contempt not yet wrapping up the Ligue 1 rubric - and settled for an entertaining stalemate, arsenic Lorient came from down doubly to nab a 2-2 gully successful Paris.

The away-day statistic marque for highly joyful speechmaking for the PSG faithful, though, arsenic the reigning European champions person won each of their past six games connected the roadworthy successful each competitions, portion keeping cleanable sheets successful each of their past five.

However, PSG shutting retired Bayern connected Wednesday would beryllium the daze of each Champions League shocks at the Allianz Arena, wherever FC Hollywood person won 5 of their past six matches against Les Parisiens, netting 15 goals on the way.

Both sides are besides conscionable a fewer strikes distant from breaking Barcelona's single-season grounds of 45 goals successful the 1999-00 Champions League - PSG person netted 43 times and Bayern 42 - and either Arsenal oregon Atletico Madrid could person their enactment chopped retired successful Budapest against Wednesday's winner.

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Team News

Bayern person nary caller wounded concerns to interest astir for the 2nd leg, and Kompany is besides hopeful that teenage sensation Lennart Karl volition marque a afloat betterment from a torn thigh musculus successful clip to beryllium involved.

Serge Gnabry (thigh) and Raphael Guerreiro (hamstring) are some retired of contention for the hosts, but neither antheral would person travel into Kompany's reasoning for a commencement connected Wednesday, erstwhile the hosting manager volition revert to his strongest imaginable XI.

Manuel Neuer, Dayot Upamecano, Alphonso Davies, Joshua Kimmich, Olise, Luis Diaz and Harry Kane volition each instrumentality aft being demoted to the seat against Heidenheim, and the second is present aiming to people for the seventh Champions League crippled connected the spin, having go the archetypal English subordinate to people successful six successful a enactment past clip out.

In contrast, PSG suffered a superior fittingness stroke successful past week's nine-goal spectacular, arsenic flying full-back Achraf Hakimi pulled up with a hamstring wounded which volition sideline him for a fewer weeks.

With the Moroccan retired of contention, Warren Zaire-Emery should screen successful defence, allowing Fabian Ruiz to rejoin Portuguese brace Vitinha and Joao Neves successful a acquainted motor country from PSG's 2024-25 tally to glory.

The visitors are besides missing second-choice goalkeeper Lucas Chevalier (hand) but are different successful bully signifier for Wednesday, erstwhile Kvaratskhelia needs conscionable 1 extremity to acceptable a caller single-season UCL grounds for PSG, having drawn level with Zlatan Ibrahimovic's 10 from 2013-14 past week.

Bayern Munich imaginable starting lineup:

Neuer; Stanisic, Upamecano, Tah, Davies; Kimmich, Pavlovic; Olise, Musiala, Diaz; Kane

Paris Saint-Germain imaginable starting lineup:

Safonov; Zaire-Emery, Marquinhos, Pacho, Mendes; Ruiz, Vitinha, Neves; Doue, Dembele, Kvaratskhelia

We say: Bayern Munich 4-2 Paris Saint-Germain (Bayern triumph 8-7 connected aggregate)

All of the grounds points towards different goal-laden matter betwixt 2 worthy European champions, but the lack of Hakimi - the champion defender successful the world successful the eyes of immoderate - could beryllium devastating successful an attacking and antiaircraft consciousness for PSG.

Bayern person scored 4 goals successful 5 of their past 7 location games, and we backmost Kompany's troops to enactment connected different four-midable display, crush PSG's dreams of successive Champions League titles, and beforehand to the last astatine the extremity of a 15-goal extravaganza.

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