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

Perpetual home champions and infrequent continental conquerors collide successful Tuesday's mouth-watering Champions League semi-final archetypal leg, arsenic Paris Saint-Germain invited Bayern Munich to the Parc des Princes.

The holders made airy enactment of Liverpool successful the quarter-finals, sinking the Reds 4-0 connected aggregate to acceptable up a day with the Bundesliga champions, who successful crook staved disconnected a Real Madrid remontada.

Match preview

Making harder enactment of their Ligue 1 rubric defence that they should person and suffering a mates of league-phase stutters, PSG person not been the aforesaid indomitable unit from 2024-25, but Luis Enrique's men person been flexing their Champions League-winning muscles much often than not recently.

Indeed, Les Parisiens are presently enjoying their longest European occurrence streak this season, claiming 4 consecutive victories implicit Chelsea and Liverpool - scoring a whopping 12 goals on the mode - to scope the UCL semi-finals for the 3rd twelvemonth successful a row.

No French broadside had ever achieved that feat earlier Enrique masterminded back-to-back 2-0 triumphs implicit Liverpool, whom PSG were unfortunate to lone bushed by that scoreline successful the archetypal leg, but the Reds' second-leg tone meant thing acknowledgment to Ousmane Dembele's double.

Now seeking different portion of French footballing history, PSG volition go the archetypal nine from their state to triumph 100 Champions League matches; their first-ever triumph successful the contention - successful its existent format - coincidentally came against Bayern successful the 1994-95 radical stage.

A rotated PSG broadside were stunned 2-1 by Lyon soon aft their Anfield success, but Les Parisiens person reverted to benignant successful Ligue 1 recently, earning successive 3-0 victories implicit Nantes and astir precocious Angers.

Six points wide astatine the apical of the Ligue 1 table with 4 games to go, PSG's adjacent home procession could beryllium a formality with conscionable 2 much victories, though their opponents already person their customary crown successful the bag.

When the referee blew the last whistle successful Bayern's 4-2 triumph implicit Stuttgart connected April 19 - the time Kompany's broadside officially clinched the Bundesliga rubric - immoderate whitethorn person thought the Bavarians were simply blessed with different 3 points, specified was the mode of their low-key celebrations astatine afloat time.

The modular beer-soaking ritual soon ensued, but Bayern's restrained contiguous reactions were that of a broadside whose first-placed Bundesliga finishes are breadstuff and butter, compared to their under-performance successful the Champions League.

Not since the COVID last successful 2020 person Tuesday's visitors conquered the continent, suffering 4 quarter-final eliminations and 1 semi-final exit since, and a peculiarly worrying hoodoo is hanging implicit them up of this two-legged tussle.

FC Hollywood person mislaid each of their past 5 two-legged Champions League semi-finals since their triumphant 2012-13 tally - the 2019-20 semis were fought implicit azygous legs - but nary squad near successful the contention boasts a amended European grounds since 2026 began.

Indeed, Kompany's broadside person won their past 7 UCL games aft 2-1 and 4-3 quarter-final triumphs implicit Real Madrid, and triumph implicit Mainz 05 by the second scoreline successful Saturday's Bundesliga thriller made it 9 wins connected the rotation successful each tournaments.

The visitors besides edged retired PSG 2-1 successful November's league-phase conflict astatine the Parc des Princes - a effect that marked their 5th triumph from their past six matches against the European champions, who person much than 2020 last heartbreak to avenge connected location soil.

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Team News

PSG's second-leg triumph implicit Liverpool appeared to travel astatine a large cost, arsenic Desire Doue and Nuno Mendes were some withdrawn done wounded astatine Anfield, but the brace made the squad against Angers and are expected to beryllium disposable connected Tuesday too.

However, determination is simply a question people hanging implicit the caput of midfield metronome Vitinha, who sustained a bottommost wounded against Lyon and was inactive lone grooming individually earlier Saturday's league victory.

In brighter midfield news, Fabian Ruiz precocious returned to enactment aft a two-month lack with a genu problem, and the Spaniard is connected people to commencement Tuesday's mammoth contention aft coming done 45 minutes against Angers unscathed.

Meanwhile, Bayern's biggest absentee connected Tuesday volition beryllium connected the touchline alternatively than the turf, arsenic Kompany picked up his 3rd yellowish paper of the tourney successful the second-leg triumph implicit Real Madrid and is present acceptable to service a one-game suspension.

Injury-wise, Serge Gnabry (thigh), Tom Bischof (muscle) and Sven Ulreich (muscle) are retired of contention, but teenage sensation Lennart Karl is successful the last stages of his betterment from a torn thigh musculus and has not been ruled retired conscionable yet.

Joshua Kimmich and Dayot Upamecano volition some instrumentality connected Tuesday aft being rested successful the triumph implicit Mainz, against whom Kane came disconnected the seat to nett his 53rd extremity of the season; the England skipper is present aiming to people for the sixth Champions League crippled successful a row.

Paris Saint-Germain imaginable starting lineup:

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

Bayern Munich imaginable starting lineup:

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

We say: Paris Saint-Germain 2-2 Bayern Munich

Only 2 of the past 8 meetings betwixt PSG and Bayern Munich person seen some teams score, but with a plethora of world-class attackers connected the Parc des Princes pitch, a first-leg goal-fest volition surely ensue.

Both managers were besides afforded the luxury of resting cardinal names astatine the weekend, and adjacent without Kompany barking orders from the sidelines, Bayern tin lucifer their hosts' violative guile to instrumentality location with a hard-earned draw.

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