Unbeatable Bayern Munich in this years edition of the Champions League was once again unbeatable as they edged out Paris Saint Germain to win their sixth Champions League trophy in a match that would go down as one of the greatest finals of all time.
Kingsley Coman, who was the only change from Bayern’s previous game made the radical difference to haunt his former club, Paris Saint-Germain, as his second-half header did enough to guide Bayern Munich to a 1-0 victory in the Champions League final in Lisbon.
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The Frenchman justified his inclusion by Hansi Flick on the hour when he headed the winner as the champions of Germany overcame their French counterparts to clinch a sixth European crown.
Bayern have now completed a Bundesliga, DFB Pokal, and Champions League treble for only the second time in the club’s history, and manager Hansi Flick who came close to winning the Champions League, as a player, far back in 1987 can now savor the moment as a coach.
The German champions put in a dominant display in the season’s Champions League, racking up 11 successive wins straight from the group stages through the final.
For the entire PSG team and manager, it was an agonising failure at the final hurdle as the early chances missed came back to haunt them and they were denied the opportunity of finally replicating their domestic dominance on European football’s biggest stage.
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Stats and facts from the match (Backed by Opta)
- Bayern Munich have won the European Cup/Champions League for a sixth time (level with Liverpool) and for the first time since 2012-13. Only Real Madrid (13) and AC Milan (7) have been crowned champions on more occasions.
- Bayern Munich are the first team in European Cup/Champions League history to win every game en route to winning the competition (11 wins).
- Bayern Munich became just the third side in UEFA Champions League history to hit the 500-goal mark in the competition (500 goals in total), after Barcelona (517) and Real Madrid (567).
- Bayern Munich attacker Kingsley Coman became the fifth Frenchman to score in a UEFA Champions League final (Benzema 2018, Zidane 2002, Desailly 1994 and Boli 1993).
- PSG failed to score in a game in a major UEFA European competition for the first time in 35 matches, last failing to do so in a 0-1 defeat to Man City in April 2016.
- Each of the last seven teams competing in their first European Cup/Champions League final have all lost, with the last first-time winners being Borussia Dortmund in 1997 against Juventus.
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