[SPORT NEWS] : PSG 0-1 Bayern Munich: Kingsley Coman seals Champions League glory 2020

 

Match report as Bayern clinch sixth Champions League crown in Lisbon.

Kingsley Coman haunted former club Paris Saint-Germain as his second-half header guided Bayern Munich to a 1-0 victory in the Champions League final in Lisbon.

The Frenchman was Bayern's only pre-match change from the semi-final victory over Lyon and vindicated his inclusion on the hour when he headed the winner as the champions of Germany overcame their French counterparts to clinch a sixth European crown.

It was a moment to savour for Bayern and their manager Hansi Flick, who having been installed as interim boss last November, won the trophy he came so close winning as a player in 1987 to complete a Bundesliga, DFB Pokal and Champions League treble for only the second time in the club's history.

And Bayern's return to the summit of European football was further underlined by the fact they became the first team in Champions League/European Cup history to win all of their matches en route to lifting the trophy.

For Thomas Tuchel and PSG, it was agonising failure at the final hurdle as the expensive stars brought to the club to win this very competition - Neymar and Kylian Mbappe - spurned chances and failed to replicate the French champions' domestic dominance on European football's biggest stage.

Player ratings

PSG: Navas (7), Kehrer (5), Thiago Silva (7), Kimpembe (7), Bernat (6), Marquinhos (8), Herrera (6), Paredes (6), Di Maria (7), Neymar (6), Mbappe (6).

Subs: Verratti (6), Draxler (n/a), Choup-Moting (n/a), Kurzawa (n/a).

Bayern Munich: Neuer (9), Kimmich (7), Boateng (6), Alaba (7), Davies (5), Thiago (7), Goretzka (7), Gnabry (5), Muller (6), Coman (9), Lewandowski (6).

Subs: Sule (6), Perisic (6), Coutinho (6).

Man of the Match: Kingsley Coman.

The conclusion of the 2020 Champions League saw two domestic champions - of France and Germany - compete in the final for the first time since 1998, and while it was played out in front of an empty stadium due to coronavirus restrictions, it lived up to expectation in an engrossing, if somewhat cagey, showpiece in Lisbon.

The first chance fell to PSG on 18 minutes as Mbappe, who had two early attempts blocked, turned provider for strike-partner Neymar, but a fine Manuel Neuer double stop thwarted the Brazilian's initial effort before his attempt to square the rebound the Angel di Maria was cut out by the Bayern captain.