{"id":436129,"date":"2026-05-07T02:35:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436129\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T02:35:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T02:35:07","slug":"psg-thwart-bayern-to-set-up-final-showdown-with-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/436129\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG thwart Bayern to set up final showdown with Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Paris Saint-Germain will play Arsenal in the Champions League final after they drew 1-1 with Bayern Munich in the Allianz Arena to seal a 6-5 aggregate semi-final victory.<\/p>\n<p>After the astonishing first leg in Paris a week ago that saw the European champions triumph by the odd goal in nine, this was a more measured but no less fascinating affair, Ousmane Dembele&#8217;s goal in the third minute giving the visitors a two-goal advantage in the tie.<\/p>\n<p>At that stage it looked like another explosive night of attacking fluidity was in store, but Bayern could not rediscover the threat that saw them reel PSG in from 5-2 to 5-4 in the Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t take long!<\/p>\n<p>A 10th goal of the tie and we\u2019re only three minutes into the second leg as Ousmane Dembele scores for PSG.<\/p>\n<p>Live now on RT\u00c92 and the RT\u00c9 Player <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/sWY285zahj\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/sWY285zahj<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 RT\u00c9 Sport (@RTEsport) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RTEsport\/status\/2052103530576593130\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">May 6, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harry Kane scored in the fourth minute of stoppage time to set up a nervous finale, but Bayern had left themselves insufficient time to seriously unsettle the visitors from Paris.<\/p>\n<p>Luis Enrique&#8217;s side had been the team that had looked likeliest to add to their tally and put the semi-final beyond all doubt, Manuel Neuer performing heroics to just about keep Bayern&#8217;s hopes alive until the end.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, the holders needed nothing further in order to book their place alongside Mikel Arteta&#8217;s side in Budapest on 30 May.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the RT\u00c9 Soccer podcast on <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/ie\/podcast\/rt%C3%A9-soccer-podcast\/id1351258823\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Apple Podcasts<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/6pcqDQ1AO2djjP7xBSewtl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Spotify<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rte.ie\/radio1\/podcast\/podcast_soccerrepublic.xml\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">wherever you get your podcasts<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"youtube-container tpe\" data-embed=\"youtube\" data-id=\"0bExhJwFlV4\">\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Paris Saint-Germain will play Arsenal in the Champions League final after they drew 1-1 with Bayern Munich in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436130,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-436129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436129\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}