Champions League - Round of 16 - 2nd Leg
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Bayern Munich 2-0 Paris St-Germain (3-0 agg): Hosts cruise into Champions League quarter-finals

By Steve SutcliffeBBC Sport
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scores Bayern Munich's opening goal against Paris St-Germain
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting played for Paris St-Germain against Bayern Munich in the 2020 Champions League final

Bayern Munich cruised into the quarter-finals of the Champions League as they condemned Paris St-Germain to another last-16 exit.

Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting swept home just after the hour mark for the hosts against his former club, with substitute Serge Gnabry adding the gloss to a professional display late on.

PSG have now been eliminated from the competition at this stage in five of their previous seven campaigns and this represented another dismal failure for the Ligue 1 leaders and their under-pressure head coach Christophe Galtier.

Despite boasting a collection of stars, the Parisians not only failed to score over two legs but were saved the embarrassment of a four or five-goal aggregate defeat by a VAR decision and offside flag ruling out an earlier Choupo-Moting header and Sadio Mane's stoppage-time effort.

Six-time European champions Bayern had begun the evening nervously defending a one-goal first-leg lead and guarding against the dual threat posed by Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi.

However, while PSG's star forward line sporadically threatened early on neither was given the time or space to inflict any damage on a disciplined and efficient Bayern side, who ran out comfortable winners.

The only major concern for the German champions arrived in the first period and was entirely self-inflicted.

Goalkeeper Yann Sommer - who was caught in possession by Achraf Hakimi - presented visiting midfielder Vitinha with an open goal but defender Matthijs de Ligt made a superb sliding intervention for the home side.

The draw for the last eight of the competition takes place on 17 March in Nyon, Switzerland.

Efficient Bayern prove too good for PSG

Sommer's mistake should have been punished and provided PSG with the momentum to go on and win the tie, in the same manner that Real Madrid did against them almost exactly 12 months ago.

However, Vitinha's weak finish was symptomatic of a side that has promised much but too often failed to deliver on big European nights - and who failed to score in a knockout tie for the first time since the 1994-95 semi-finals against AC Milan.

Sergio Ramos and Mbappe both saw second-half efforts well saved by Swiss international Sommer but by then the damage had been done and Bayern were in the ascendancy.

The German side's control and strength in reserve was also underlined by their changes with Julian Nagelsmann able to introduce Gnabry, Mane, Joao Cancelo and Leroy Sane while bringing off the likes of Thomas Muller and the impressive Jamal Musiala.

The impact of Portugal international Cancelo - who is on loan at Bayern from Manchester City - was immediate, as he laid on a goal for Gnabry within three minutes of his introduction to put the tie beyond doubt.

Player of the match

ManéSadio Mané

with an average of 8.06

Bayern Munich

  1. Squad number17Player nameMané
    Average rating

    8.06

  2. Squad number7Player nameGnabry
    Average rating

    7.90

  3. Squad number19Player nameDavies
    Average rating

    7.53

  4. Squad number22Player nameJoão Cancelo
    Average rating

    7.45

  5. Squad number42Player nameMusiala
    Average rating

    7.37

  6. Squad number6Player nameKimmich
    Average rating

    7.37

  7. Squad number4Player namede Ligt
    Average rating

    7.34

  8. Squad number25Player nameMüller
    Average rating

    7.27

  9. Squad number11Player nameComan
    Average rating

    7.21

  10. Squad number10Player nameSané
    Average rating

    7.13

  11. Squad number8Player nameGoretzka
    Average rating

    7.13

  12. Squad number13Player nameChoupo-Moting
    Average rating

    7.03

  13. Squad number2Player nameUpamecano
    Average rating

    6.91

  14. Squad number44Player nameStanisic
    Average rating

    6.50

  15. Squad number27Player nameSommer
    Average rating

    6.36

Paris Saint Germain

  1. Squad number30Player nameMessi
    Average rating

    6.36

  2. Squad number2Player nameHakimi
    Average rating

    6.12

  3. Squad number7Player nameMbappé
    Average rating

    5.97

  4. Squad number4Player nameRamos
    Average rating

    5.92

  5. Squad number5Player nameMarquinhos
    Average rating

    5.81

  6. Squad number99Player nameG Donnarumma
    Average rating

    5.64

  7. Squad number6Player nameVerratti
    Average rating

    5.62

  8. Squad number25Player nameNuno Mendes
    Average rating

    5.51

  9. Squad number15Player nameDanilo Pereira
    Average rating

    5.38

  10. Squad number17Player nameVitinha
    Average rating

    5.31

  11. Squad number8Player nameRuiz
    Average rating

    5.13

  12. Squad number26Player nameMukiele
    Average rating

    4.57

  13. Squad number31Player nameBitshiabu
    Average rating

    4.36

  14. Squad number33Player nameZaïre-Emery
    Average rating

    4.07

  15. Squad number44Player nameEkitike
    Average rating

    4.00

  16. Squad number14Player nameBernat
    Average rating

    3.89

Line-ups

Bayern Munich

Formation 4-2-3-1

  • 27Sommer
  • 44Stanisic
  • 2Upamecano
  • 4de Ligt
  • 19Davies
  • 8Goretzka
  • 6Kimmich
  • 11ComanSubstituted forGnabryat 86'minutes
  • 25MüllerSubstituted forCanceloat 86'minutes
  • 42MusialaSubstituted forManéat 82'minutes
  • 13Choupo-MotingSubstituted forSanéat 68'minutes

Substitutes

  • 7Gnabry
  • 10Sané
  • 14Wanner
  • 17Mané
  • 20Sarr
  • 22Cancelo
  • 23Blind
  • 26Ulreich
  • 38Gravenberch
  • 39Tel
  • 40Mazraoui
  • 46Ibrahimovic

PSG

Formation 3-5-2

  • 99G Donnarumma
  • 15Danilo
  • 4Ramos
  • 5MarquinhosSubstituted forMukieleat 36'minutesSubstituted forBitshiabuat 45'minutes
  • 2HakimiBooked at 90mins
  • 17VitinhaSubstituted forEkitikeat 81'minutes
  • 6Verratti
  • 8RuizSubstituted forZaïre-Emeryat 76'minutes
  • 25Nuno MendesSubstituted forBernatat 82'minutes
  • 30Messi
  • 7Mbappé

Substitutes

  • 14Bernat
  • 16Rico
  • 18Renato Sanches
  • 26Mukiele
  • 28Soler
  • 29Pembélé
  • 31Bitshiabu
  • 33Zaïre-Emery
  • 35Gharbi
  • 44Ekitike
  • 90Letellier
Referee:
Daniele Orsato
Attendance:
75,000

Match Stats

Home TeamBayern MunichAway TeamPSG
Possession
Home45%
Away55%
Shots
Home12
Away10
Shots on Target
Home5
Away4
Corners