It remains to be seen if Lyon have something in store with which to surprise the Bavarian team. He needs a quick goal to be able to get back into the game.
Flick has also used the break to make his first change. Jérôme Boateng leaves the pitch and Niklas Süle enters.
Rudy Garcia has made his first change. Bruno Guimarães leaves and is replaced by Thiago Mendes.
THE SECOND PERIOD BEGINS !!!
FACT. Serge Gnabry is the third Bayern Munich player to score two or more goals in a Champions League semi-final match after Thomas Müller vs Barcelona in 2013 (two goals) and Ivica Olic vs Lyon in 2010 (three goals).
And the truth is that the result could have been even broader if Robert Lewandowsky had been right in the options he had and it is not usual to see the Pole fail a few meters from the goal.
Bayern go to the locker room with a foot and a half in the semi-finals of the Champions League thanks to the two goals scored by Serge Gnabry in the first 45 minutes. Those of Rudy García attacked fluently and came to have two or three very dangerous occasions, including a shot at the post by Ekamby, but the truth is that little by little the greater potential of a German team that ended up dominating the crash at will.
THE COLLEGE DOES NOT ADD ANYTHING !!! END OF THE FIRST PERIOD !!!
Lyon's second yellow card in this match. Marçal blocked Robert Lewandoswky.
Second yellow card
Again Lewandowsky !!! A great cross from Gnabry failed to finish off the goal and the truth is that the Polish striker is beginning to despair, not used to scoring such clear chances.
As we said, the way to the final is greatly cleared for those of Flick. He is dominating now at will, arriving more and more comfortably at the rival goal and, with constant occasions, only with the inertia that the game carries, it is not unusual that we see another tremendously bulky result.
Marcelo received the first yellow card of the match after committing a foul on Lewandowsky
Lewandowsky missed the goal. The Pole did not impale well, but Gnabry was very ready to pick up the rebound and score the second of the Bavarian team on empty goal in a semi-final that looks very good for his interests.
BAYERN'S GOOOOL !!! GOOOOL OF GNABRY !!!
Lewandowsky !!! Lopes fell on him and the Lyon goalkeeper prevented the Polish striker from finishing in good condition.
It seems that Gnabry's goal has totally disabled Lyon's attack. Until that moment, the French team had managed to do a lot of damage behind the Teutonic team.
Gnabry !!! Lopes cleared. Marçal failed in the clearance and gave a ball to the German attacker that could have cost his team dearly.
Müller failed to finish off !!! Rehearsed play by the Bavarian team and the Flick board could now have offered important returns because the touch of Alcántara caught Lyon's rear completely off guard.
FACT. Serge Gnabry has scored all of his Champions League goals away from home (6 in London and 2 in Lisbon).
They forgave Olympique on three or four very clear occasions and that is giving a lot of advantage to a Bayern with a huge offensive potential.
Great goal by Gnabry !!! Individual play. He went from the outskirts to the inside, outlining himself until he was located in the front of the area and a tremendous shoe was taken from his sleeve that slipped into the squad of Lopes' goal.
BAYERN'S GOOOOL !!! GOOOOL OF SERGE GNABRY !!!
Assists Joshua Kimmich
EKAMBI AL PALO !!! Tremendous again the occasion of the French. He was wrong at first by not seeing Depay completely unmarked, but then he made a sensational cutout and ended up shooting at wood.
The truth is that the French team is putting the German defense in trouble in each and every one of the arrivals in the vicinity of the area.
Providencial Boateng when cutting a very dangerous cross from Cornet who was looking for Ekambi !!!
Ekambi !!! The Lyon striker was about to finish off the goal, but the delivery was too powerful and did not hit the ball. New arrival with a lot of danger from the Rudy García …
Lopez had to take out a shipment from Goretzka that was poisoning and was about to surprise him !!!
Lyon are doing things very well in this first leg of the game. It is not going to be easy for Hans-Dieter Flick to be able to bend the French painting.
With the foreseeable dominance of those from Munich, that Lyon obtain some revenue in the counterattacks, it may be one of the keys to the game.
DEPAY HAS HAD IT !!! Alcantara delivery failure. This caused a dangerous against the French box and Depay was on the verge of surpassing Neuer in the one on one.
Try to handle the leather the whole of Rudy García in these first bars of the contest.
THE SEMIFINAL STARTS !!! Bayern put the ball into play …
The Champions League anthem sounds !!! Everything is ready at the José Alvalade stadium in Lisbon for the game to start. As you know, the clash is held behind closed doors due to the Covid-19 pandemic. The meeting is led by the Spanish referee Mateu Lahoz.
FACT. In all competitions, FC Bayern München boasts the longest unbeaten streak of matches in the five major European leagues (28P 27V 1E 0D), scoring 94 goals (3.4 per game) and winning the last 19. In the Champions League alone, He has scored 39 goals this season and only three teams have scored more in the same edition in the history of the competition.
The two coaches repeat the initial teams that they had in their respective quarter-final matches and this is where the maxim is fulfilled: if something works, you don't have to touch it.
XI DEL BAYERN MÜNICH: Neuer; Kimmich, Boateng, Alaba, Davies; Goretzka, Thiago; Gnabry, Müller, Perisic and Lewandowski
XI DEL LYON: Lopes; Denayer, Marcelo, Marçal; Dubois, Caqueret, Guimarães, Aouar, Cornet; Depay and Ekambi.
We already have the official line-ups that both teams present for tonight's momentous match.
Lyon, for their part, are looking to become the sixth French team to reach a UCL final. And Lyon coach Rudi García is looking to become the second French manager to lead a French team to the Champions League final after Didier Deschamps with Monaco in 2003/04.
This will be FC Bayern München's 12th appearance in the Champions League semi-finals, only Real Madrid (13) have reached this round of the competition on more occasions. The German team have failed to reach the final in their last four semi-finals, since winning the competition in 2012/13.
FC Bayern München and Lyon will meet in European competition for the ninth time, the Germans winning four of the previous eight (2E 2D). In fact, the last time they met was also in the Champions League semi-finals, with the Bavarians winning 4-0 on aggregate in 2009/10.
PSG, who beat Leipzig 3-0 yesterday, awaits a rival for next Saturday's grand final of the clash that will maintain a classic of European football and a Lyon, which could lead to the first French final in the history of the competition .
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