Champions League
Bayern keep their nerve against PSG – Leverkusen with a landslide win
FC Bayern stayed cool in the Champions League against Paris with a narrow lead, Bayer Leverkusen celebrated a shooting festival, RB Leipzig is facing an early exit.
FC Bayern Munich opened its groundbreaking top game week with a very important victory in the Champions League classic against Paris Saint-Germain. After the narrow but well-deserved 1-0 (1-0) thanks to defender Minjae Kim’s first premier class goal (38th minute), the German football record champions are back in the middle of the race for a place in the third game in the fifth the top 8 and direct entry into the round of 16. However, there are still more victories to come.
After the seventh clean sheet success in a row, coach Vincent Kompany and his team can go into the big tests next Saturday in the Bundesliga against Borussia Dortmund and finally in the DFB Cup against defending champions Bayer Leverkusen with an even broader cross. PSG, on the other hand, is threatened with an early exit from the Champions League after the league phase with just four points.
Champions League: Bayern confident, Leverkusen in the mood to play, the lights are gradually going out at RB
Bayer Leverkusen remains a hot contender for qualification for the round of 16 thanks to the enthusiasm of its national player Florian Wirtz. The German football champions, who have been undefeated in European Cup games in front of their own audience for more than two years, continued their successful home series with a 5-0 (3-0) win against RB Salzburg.
With ten points from five games, the Rhinelanders now have very good prospects of taking part in the playoffs. In addition, two of the remaining three games will take place in the BayArena. In front of 29,211 spectators, the strong Wirtz (8th/foul penalty/30th) as well as Alejandro Grimaldo (11th), Patrik Schick (61st) and Aleix Garcia (72nd) scored the goals for the clearly superior Leverkusen team.
The situation is different at RB Leipzig: The team is facing an early exit from the Champions League. The Bundesliga club also lost 0-1 (0-1) at Inter Milan and, after the fifth defeat in the fifth game of the new league format, only has a minimal chance of making it into the knockout round.
An own goal from defender Castello Lukeba (27th minute) left Leipzig trailing 1-0 against the in-form Milanese at San Siro. After that, RB showed a rebellion, but remained winless in the fifth competitive game in a row. The pressure on coach Marco Rose is likely to become even greater.
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