Lisbon awaits for the 2019/20 UEFA Champions League final, to be played at Benfica’s Stadium of Light stadium, kick off at 8 pm (UK time).
• PSG (usually play rougly a 4-1-2-3/4-3-3), French champions and cup winners, reach the final of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in their history – and are the first French club to do so since fellow Ligue 1 club Monaco did so in 2003/04 – after beating Leipzig (3-0) on Tuesday night in Lisbon.
• Bundesliga champions and 5 time UEFA Champions League/European Cip winners Bayern Münich (usually play roughly a 4-2-3-1) are now Champions League finalists for the first time since winning the competition in 2013.
• A club (PSG and Bayern Münich) from each of the two previous World Cup winning nations (Germany in 2014 and France in 2018) will compete in this season’s UEFA Champions Leagus final in Portugal (current holders of the 2016 European Championships).
• PSG scored 8 goals in 4 Champions League matches en route to the final and conceded 3.
• Bayern Münich scored 18 and conceded 4 goals in 4 Champions League matches en route the final.
• Bayern’s 8-2 win against Barcelona allowed them to join Liverpool and Real Madrid as teams that have scored 8 goals in a single Champions League match.
• Neither manager (both German) – Tuchel (PSG) or Flick (Bayern Münich) has won the UEFA Champions League before.
How Do They Score?
PSG
• PSG’s star men Neymar and Mbappe get the headlines but surprisingly neither the Brazilian or Frenchman have scored since the restart but have only played a few games due to Ligue 1 being suspended due to Corona Virus (PSG were crowded champions on points per game average) but are obviously a threat and can score at any moment and against any opposition.
• PSG had different scorers en route to the final, with Di Maria, Chupo-Moting and Marquinhos being on the score sheet in victories against Atalanta (2-1) and Leipzig (3-0).
Bayern Münich
Having scored at least 3 goals in each of their 4 Champions League matches and scorer of plenty of goals in the BundesLiga, this is one of Bayern’s highest scoring season’s in their history and one of the highest scoring seasons in Champions League history.
• Lewandowski has over 50 goals to his name this season and is a couple of goals shy of Ronaldo’s record for most goals scored in a single season (57).
• Gnabry is one of the tournament’s top scorers this season and scored (3 in 2 matches) against French side Lyon (0-3) and 2018/19 La Liga champions Barcelona (8-2).
• Bayern have had at least 6 different scorers in the Champions League since the restart – Lewandowski, Gnabry, Muller, Kimmich, Coutinho have scored for the Bundesliga champions en route to the final.
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