Bayern Munich and German national team legend Lothar Matth\u00e4us watched Bayern Munich\u2019s 5-4 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in leg one of their Champions League tie and came away with a stunning conclusion \u2014 PSG was cooked.<\/p>\n
Les Parisiens were strong early in the match, but wore down by the end, which is something that Matth\u00e4us feels like could determine the match this time around.<\/p>\n
\u201cI saw that Bayern were dominant, especially in the last 20 to 25 minutes. And if Bayern had finished off a few more attacks, they wouldn\u2019t have had to lose the game. They made a very strong physical impression; they actually do that in every game,\u201d Matth\u00e4us told Sky (as captured by Sport Bild<\/a>). \u201cIn my view, they\u2019re also physically stronger than PSG, who were defending with their tongues hanging out. And that\u2019s why I believe Bayern \u2014 and I\u2019m not being biased here, I\u2019m just saying what I see and have seen this season\u2014look more solid. At home, with that support, they also came back from a deficit against Madrid and advanced. That\u2019s why I think Bayern Munich will win this game and make it to the final in Budapest.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m almost certain: PSG won\u2019t be able to keep up this pace at the Allianz Arena for 90\u2014or maybe even 120\u2014minutes. Their defense isn\u2019t that solid; they were running on empty by the end.\u201d<\/p>\n PSG\u2019s defense could be worse this time around given the injury to Achraf Hakimi and the banged-up status of Nuno Mendes, who was not great during the first leg anyway.<\/p>\n For as much as some might doubt it, there is a pathway for the Bavarians to get to the UCL finale.<\/p>\n If you are looking for more Bayern Munich and German national team coverage, check out the latest episodes of Bavarian Podcast Works, which you can get on Acast<\/a>, Spotify<\/a>, Apple<\/a>, or any leading podcast distributor\u2026 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich and German national team legend Lothar Matth\u00e4us watched Bayern Munich\u2019s 5-4 loss to Paris Saint-Germain in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":648049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4842,18635,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-648048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-bayern-munich-alumni","tag-bayern-munich-champions-league","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=648048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/648048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/648049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=648048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=648048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=648048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}