Bayern forward Robert Lewandowksi, who scored a career-best 55 goals for his club last season, and goalkeeper Manuel Neuer were nominated for men’s player of the year in Europe after a dominant season with the treble-winning German team.
Bayern Munich put 8 goals past a hapless Schalke defence in the opening game of Bundesliga 2020/21.
The 29-year-old Thiago ended his seven-year spell at Bayern by moving for an initial fee of 20 million pounds ($26 million), with a potential additional 5 million pounds ($6.5 million) later.
The 31-year-old Croatian forward scored eight goals and assisted 10 more in 35 games for Bayern Munich during the season-long loan spell.
In the absence of ecstatic crowds, Bavarian state governor Markus Söder greeted coach Hansi Flick and his team on the tarmac after they got off their aircraft.
Winning a championship game, especially by a single goal, is always going to be a confluence of a lot of things: brains, skill, luck, good timing, good health and enough money to spread around; then crossing your fingers that somebody in the organization doesn’t do something stupid with it.
Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin wrote on Twitter that 16 police officers were injured in the Sunday night skirmishes. Police did not have estimates on injuries among the football fans.
Coman was a starter against PSG, and the Bayern coach's decision was vindicated when the Paris-born winger scored the match-winner after 58 minutes, his goal sealing the second treble in club history on Sunday.
It was Bayern’s sixth European title, and first since 2013. That was also the last time Lewandowski had played in the Champions League final, with Borussia Dortmund in a losing effort.
Close to the Champs-Élysées, a dozen riot police in full gear burst into a bar to aggressively remove people, because some were not wearing masks, or were failing to keep social distancing amid coronavirus concerns.
While Bayern won their first final since 2013, PSG have yet to lift the European Cup despite more than $1 billion being spent on players in nine years.
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French champions PSG will take on German giants Bayern Munich in Sunday's final in Lisbon
The grand and costly ambitions of a sporting project entangled in political objectives will reach new heights when PSG play Bayern Munich in their first Champions League final.
It would be a first for Lewandowski in nine attempts, while Mbappé would be clinching it in his fourth try.
Either Paris Saint-Germain will pick up the European Cup for the first time or Bayern Munich will become six-time winners of the continent’s premier competition.
There are extra security measures in place in Paris to prevent wild fan celebrations during the Champions League final against Bayern Munich.
Neymar is getting the opportunity to prove he doesn’t need Lionel Messi to help him win soccer’s biggest club tournament.
While most will be watching PSG forwards Neymar and Mbappé, or Bayern counterparts Müller and Lewandowski, the title could come down to the likes of Di María and Gnabry.
Bayern Munich defeated Lyon 3-0, with a brace from Serge Gnabry to enter the final of the Champions League.
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