Overview
- PSG, which beat Bayern 5-4 on Tuesday at the Parc des Princes, take a one-goal edge to next Wednesday’s second leg at the Allianz Arena.
- Five goals flew in before halftime, which Opta says had never happened in a Champions League semi, including a VAR-awarded penalty for a handball by Alphonso Davies that Ousmane Dembélé tucked away.
- Dembélé and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia each scored twice as Paris surged 5-2 ahead by the 58th minute, before Bayern hit back through Dayot Upamecano and Luis Díaz to make it 5-4.
- Players and coaches praised the spectacle and warned nothing is settled, with Luis Enrique saying the intensity was like nothing he had managed and that Paris will still need goals in Munich.
- Bayern figures said Paris’s celebrations after the fifth goal fueled their late rally, and PSG reported Achraf Hakimi felt only cramp, setting up a fierce return that decides the path to the Budapest final on May 30.