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He Bayern Munich continued their triumphant journey in the Champions League and beat Lyon 3-0 in the semifinals with a star Serge Gnabry, author of a double, this Wednesday in Lisbon, to meet in the final on Sunday with the Paris Saint-Germain.
With the perfect point of freshness, after holidays and preseason oriented to this atypical ‘Final 8’ -unique venue and one-game qualifiers-, Bayern worked like clockwork, with a decisive Gnabry (18 and 33) and a Robert Lewandowski that he finally scored in Lisbon, head first in ’88.
League and Cup champion in Germany, with a streak of 29 games without defeat -28 victories and one draw-, Bayern are 90 minutes away from achieving the treble. It would be the culminating point of a spectacular season in the Champions League, in which it has swept the group stage and the knockout stages (Chelsea 7-1 in the second round -in two games- and Barcelona 8-2 in the quarterfinals -in one -).
Memphis approaches the goal
The French team, seventh in their league but the executioner of Juventus in the eighth and Manchester City in the quarterfinals, could not continue their epic, despite the fact that their state of euphoria allowed them to have a couple of occasions in the first quarter of an hour .
With a Bayern still asleep, Lyon, daring and direct, was close to giving the blow. In the 4th Thiago Alcántara missed a pass to the midfield and Maxence Caqueret threw Memphis Depay, who even surpassed Manuel Neuer before shooting outside the net.
Then it was the turn of his other forward, the Cameroonian Karl Toko Ekambi, fast into space and who found the post after a rebound (17).
In between, Bayern had a choice, when Leon Goretzka crossed a volley in semi-fallow and goalkeeper Anthony Lopes had to stretch to clear for a corner (11).
But it was just one minute after the ball hit the post that Bayern ended the debate with a punch on the board. Gnabry received on the right flank, with no apparent danger, but he darted to the front and dropped a cannon into the mesh.
Ekambi, no gunpowder
Bayern revelation this season along with 19-year-old Canadian Alphonso Davies, Gnabry tried again with power (25) before just pushing a dead ball that Lewandowski had fired into Lopes’ body into the net.
The 25-year-old German international has scored 9 goals in 9 games in this Champions League. His teammate Lewandowski, who had not scored at the festival against Barça, reached 15.
With 2-0 in favor, it was enough for the German giant to manage forces and manage the advantage. As in the first half, at the beginning of the second his defense showed some fissure. In 58 Ekambi lacked lucidity against a Neuer who was gigantic on his way out.
Rudi Garcia, the French coach, shook the bench and entrusted Moussa Dembele, a quarterback hero with a double against City, who replaced captain Memphis. He was accompanied in the final offensive by 17-year-old Rayan Cherki, the youngest player to participate in a Champions semi-final.
There was no miracle, Lyon said goodbye in the semifinals and Bayern is waiting for the other French representative in the grand final.
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