Paris St-Germain and Bayern Munich will meet on Monday at Benfica’s Stadium of Light in Lisbon in the final of the UEFA Champions League.
The Champions League is 425 days after the first match was played, a delay caused by the coronavirus pandemic.
The tournament was returned this month with a mini-tournament that went without major glitches in Lisbon, which replaced Istanbul as host.
Teams compete against each other in the single-game series that begins with the quarterfinals.
The French club is looking for its first Champions League trophy. The German powerhouse is trying to turn its strong tones into a win that would end its seven-year title drought in the top European club competition it has won six times.
It has been eliminated four times since then.
PSG has been dominant in France, but is yet to succeed in the Champions League. It had not reached the semi-finals in 25 years.
Bayern have won all 10 matches in the league and if they also win behind closed doors at Estadio da Luz, they would be the first team in the current tournament format to win every match in one season.
In addition, no team has ever won 11 games in a row in the elite event.
Bayern have been unbeaten in 29 games overall and have scored 94 goals in the process. They have a top scorer of tournament Robert Lewandowski, who has netted 15 times and their high pressure earned them a stunning 8-2 quarter-final win over Lionel Messi’s Barcelona.
“We should not think about the importance of the match and rather turn this tension into fun in some way,” said forward Thomas Mueller, who won the 2013 final with Bayern while making the decisions in 2010 and 2012 lost.
PSG’s top stars Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Angel di Maria will give themselves a lot of attacking power as the French champions coaches through German Thomas Tuchel will try to exploit Bayern’s high line.
PSG also conceded the best defense of the season with just five goals. But captain and center-back Thiago Silva, probably his last game for PSG, and his back line against a fierce test against Bayern who have led a tournament 42 times.
“This is history in the making, and we do not intend to stop short [of winning the title], “Said Silva.
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