Superstar French team raised their game once Mbappé came off the bench but was not enough
The Parc des Princes was a thunderous place at kick-off, although as ever with a sense of a place that is , of lots of people basically singing and dancing next to a football match. Bayern went with a back three from the start, an ambitious shape that meant Kingsley Coman taking a turn as an attacking left wing-back.
In his absence PSG began with a front two of Lionel Messi and Neymar, and with a 16-year-old from the , Warren Zaïre-Emery, for their biggest game of the year. The teenager is something even rarer, a prodigy who plays mainly as a deep midfielder, a position that requires total focus, maturity, the ability to grapple with battle-hardened German champions.
As for Paris, well, they had Messi.There is an additional lustre to seeing him play now, the sense of a man who has in so many ways completed this thing. When he dropped deep and ran with the ball – PSG’s only noticeable attacking tactic – you felt a thrill of recognition, a flicker of all those other moments of Messi running, the energy field of this unmistakable presence, the great mobile brain.
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