For the first time since 1996 no English or Spanish sides will compete in this year’s UCL.
With only French and German teams left standing, this is the first time since 2013 that just two nations are being represented at the semi-final stage of the Champions League.
PSG will face Leipzig tonight in the first final-four showdown.
Bayern tackle Lyon tomorrow night.
Today night PSG will face RB Leipzig in the semifinals of the champions league.
PSG have not won a single UEFA Champions league till date. However, they are doing extremely well in the current season scoring 22 goals with top scorer Kylian Mbappe scoring 5 goals. He has also given 5 assists. They have 87% passing accuracy and have also had 46 successful tackles.
RB Leipzig have scored 16 goals in the champions league this season. They have a passing accuracy of 85% and they have has 56% possesion on an average in a game. They have also played 9 games out of which 3 were clean sheets.
According to me this is going to be a very interesting match that will contain a number of beautiful plays!
Today night these two teams will be facing each other in the second semifinals of the UEFA Champions League!
Lyon has certainly suprised not only me but the the whole football audience by defeating Man city and Juventus to reach the Quarter Finals of the UEFA Champions League. They are a rather offensive team with 403 attacks with 339 of them deliverd in the attacking third. Their defence is also pretty good with 451 balls recovered and over 155 clearances.
The German champions have been favourites from the start, however no one expected them to be in such good form. They have been annihilating any team that faces them like they won 8-2 against Barca. They have won all 9 games in the UCL this season and have scored 39 goals in total with top scorer Robert Lewandowski who has scored 14 goals (top scorer of UCL). They have a passing accuracy of 88% and have 61% possession on average in each game.
This is going to be a very intense match because both the teams have exceeded our expectations and knocked out all the big teams.
Lewandowski 2 Goals Away from Ronaldo’s Champions League Record
Lewandowski scored his 15th Champions League goal of the season to round of Bayern’s win against Lyon. He is just 2 goals away from Cristiano Ronaldo’s single-season record that he achieved in the 2013-14 season.
Lewandowski has scored in 9 successive Champions League games and only Cristiano Ronaldo, with 11 to his name, is ahead of him.
Bayern Munich have recorded 10 straight Champions League, equalling the competition’s record. They are also the first team to win their first 10 matches of a Champions League campaign.
Bayern Munich, with 40 goals this season, are only behind Real Madrid (41, 2013-14), Liverpool (41, 2013-14) and Barcelona (45 - 1999-00). They have the Barcelona record in sight.
Bayern Munich have made it to their 11th European Cup or Champions League final, equalling AC Milan record, and are behind only Real Madrid, who have made 16 finals.
Serge Gnabry is only the second German player to score two goals in a Champions League semi-final after Thomas Mueller, who did it in 2012-13 against Barcelona.
Serge Gnabry is one of the four players to have been directly involved in more than 10 Champions League goals this season. Robert Lewandowski (19), Erling Haaland (11) and Kylian Mbappe (10) are the others.
The Champions League final between Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain is the fourth instance of a German-French European final and the German side has won on all the three previous occasions.
Lewandowski tops the UCL Top Scorers 2019/20 season with his 15th goal against Lyon. Lewandowski is just 2 goals away from Ronaldo’s Champions League Record of 17 that he achieved in the 2013-14 season.
If Bayern wins the champions League final they will be the first club in history to win the CL/EC1 without drawing or losing a single match in their entire run.
Bayern Munich have scored 42 goals in 10 games this season in the UEFA Champions League. Only Barcelona in 1999/2000 have scored more (45 goals) in a single campaign. Although Barca played 16 games that season. Bayern have also reached their 11th Champions League final and only Real Madrid have played more (16) finals in the history of Champions league. What an incredible stat.
This tournament has been anything but logical with upsets, shocking score lines and the unpredictable becoming the norm.
The world’s two most expensive players, Neymar and Mbappe going against the goal machine Robert Lewandowski, Thomas Muller, Alphonso Davis, Philippe Coutinho and many more. What a night it would be for football featuring the greatest superstars of this generation, not Ronaldo or Messi but 22 men who have proved their worth in the fictional year- 2020 after the pandemic halted the tournament for 441 days.
I hope to see Bayern Munich lift the UCL trophy tonight!