Former Paris St Germain striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting helped knock his former facet out of the Champions League as Bayern Munich sealed a dominating 3-0 win on mixture.
How Bayern dismissed PSG…
Main 1-0 from the primary leg in Paris, the 33-year-old scored the opener in a 2-0 second leg win to ship the Bundesliga giants into the quarter-finals.
The Cameroon worldwide capitalized on a defensive error by 17-year-old substitute El Chadaille Bitshiabu to attain simply after the hour mark earlier than Serge Gnabry sealed one other European failure for the big-spending French membership.
Bitshiabu, who had solely come on at half-time to switch Nordi Mukiele – who solely lasted 9 minutes himself after changing the injured Marquinhos – tried to play from left-back however put Marco Verratti underneath strain and he was robbed by Thomas Muller.
Muller traded it to Leon Goretzka, who introduced in Gianluigi Donnarumma earlier than throwing a go to his left for Choupo-Moting to attain his seventeenth of the season.
The previous Stoke striker thought he had opened the scoring within the 52nd minute when he eyed Jamal Musiala’s inviting curling ball into the underside proper nook, solely to have VAR rule it out attributable to an offside towards Muller, who interfered as he tried to play. the ball.
Whereas Choupo-Moting could have delivered the decisive blow, the hosts – and positively goalkeeper Yann Sommer – had been indebted to Matthijs de Ligt after clearing a Ferreira Vitinha shot off the road simply earlier than the break.
PSG did not make it previous the spherical of 16 for the fifth time in seven years.
Sommer tried to dribble exterior his field and Achraf Hakimi pressured him to current the ball to Vitinha who rolled a shot previous the goalkeeper into an empty web just for the Dutch worldwide to slide in and clings.
Simply earlier than that, PSG had misplaced captain Marquinhos to harm, permitting the membership’s prime scorer Kylian Mbappe to take the armbar, however the added duty may encourage no heroism within the French striker.
The closest he got here all evening was within the 14th minute when he had the ball within the web however the whistle had already been for a foul because it hit Sommer on the sting of the penalty space.
Bayern’s defensive resilience in Europe this season – it was their seventh clear sheet in eight appearances – even meant a facet with Mbappe and Lionel Messi faltered as PSG did not progress previous the final 16 levels for the fifth time in seven years.
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