PSG vs Bayern - a semifinal for the ages and football at its very best

Published on 30/04/2026 - 11:24 GMT+2

It was a fantastic lucifer that electrified the Parc des Princes and volition spell down successful Champions League history! French defending champion Paris Saint-Germain secured a one-goal lead, having been up 5-2 but having besides feared the worst.

But the German 35-times champions showed their tenacity and endowment to trim the shortage to one.

The 2nd limb successful Munich adjacent week promises a immense one.

To speech astir what happened connected that memorable Tuesday and what other is moving European shot these days, big Stefan Grobe was joined by 2 different large shot fans and consummate Brussels insiders: Connor Allen who manages authorities and outer relations astatine a large institution and Petros Fassoulas, caput wide of the European Movement International.

Both were afloat of praise of the prime of the French and Germans squad that were connected discourtesy permanently. They besides underlined the beardown idiosyncratic performances of the players with immoderate of the highest incomes successful European football.

That night, they definite earned their money.

It was the archetypal clip successful immoderate large European semifinal that some sides had scored astatine slightest 4 goals, and conscionable the 2nd clip successful a Champions League knockout lucifer aft Chelsea and Liverpool drew 4-4 successful the 2008-09 quarter-final.

While Fassoulas and Allen shared galore opinions astir the game, they disagreed, though, connected who volition triumph the contention eventually.

Allen, who is British, believes that Arsenal London volition instrumentality the Cup home. (The gunners had to settee for a 1-1 gully astatine Atlético Madrid successful the 2nd semifinal of the week.)

The lucifer inspired excitement besides successful the governmental realm.

Asked by Euronews, EU Sports Commissioner Glenn Mecallef said this: "That’s what European athletics does. It brings radical into the aforesaid moment. Footballers are ambassadors and relation models radical look up to. They animate and link millions of people. And the Champions League, unneurotic with Europe’s home leagues, gives them the top signifier to bash precisely that."

Other topics of the debrief included immoderate darker sides of football, particularly the occupation of racism among supporters.

This occurrence of The Ring was produced by Luis Albertos and Amaia Echevarria, and directed and edited by Vassilis Glynos.

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