Bayern Munich, Messi’s black beast in the Champions League

In the definition of the crossing by round of 16 between the Germans and the psg who imposed the conditions was the Teutonic group that weighed the town in Munich. It was a 2-0 win for the Bayern Munichthe executioner of Lionel Messi in the last three editions of the Champions League.

In a game that presented a plan and a tactical fight without leaving room for too many surprises since both teams buckled in an effort to prevent the entry of rival attacks, the one who was in charge of breaking the zero for Bayern was the Cameroonian, Erik Choupo-Mouting.

Taking advantage of the desperation of the whole of the French capital, the Germans took advantage of the spaces and it was serge gnabry the one who stretched the advantage and put definitive figures on the game when the bells of the ocazo rang. With these two goals, Bayern was left with the key with a 3-0 aggregate after the victory by the minimum in Paris in the first leg.

In this way, the dream of PSG and Lionel Messi vanished again in the blink of an eye, allowing another season to pass without achieving their ultimate goal, to conquer Europe. Since the French cast put their name on the table in the 2012/13 season at the international level, in the Champions League they have been one disappointment after another.

Bayern Munich, the European ghost of Messi

Now, it was Bayern Munich once again Messi’s executioner to stay on the road to a new European conquest. With this new victory for the Munich team over a team from Rosario, there are already three times that the Germans cut the illusion in the Champions League for Messi.

The first of these was in the 2012/13 Champions League where Bayern overwhelmed Barcelona in the semifinals with a 7-0 aggregate then 4-0 and 3-0 in the round-trip matches respectively. Another hard slap would come in the 2019/20 season.

In that competition that transferred its final stretch to Lisbon to a sanitary bubble, the German team imposed the conditions in a late night for Barcelona to forget. It was an 8-2 victory for Bayern, who would later be in charge of winning the tournament, beating PSG by a minimum in the final.

The last precedent, last night, in rainy Munich in which Bayern staged all its power and hierarchy against a blurred and weak team in this type of decisive instances.

The bittersweet taste of Messi facing Bayern

Anyway, the story of Messi facing off against Bayern is something of a love-hate episode. On the one hand, the aforementioned, Bayern is a real headache for the Argentine when he works like the oiled machine that he usually is.

To counteract this record, with a recent reality overflowing with disappointment on this level for Messi, the 30th PSG player today has to smile when remembering crosses with the Germans. Statistics indicate that every time Messi beat Bayern, this translated into shouting European champion.

The first of these was in the 2008/09 season in the quarterfinals, a contest that would remain in the hands of that brilliant team of Pep Guardiola. Then the blaugrana triumph would come in 2015 with the remembered performance of Messi in the Camp Nou scoring two goals, outwitting Boateng in one of them.

Now, despite the nice memories that Messi may have about some definition with Bayern, the one that gave way to the quarterfinals of the current edition of the Champions League was the team of julian nagelsman that he has not won all the matches he has played so far in the tournament.

The Champions League, the stone in the shoe for the PSG of Al KhelaÏfi

Regarding the new elimination of PSG in the highest competition at club level in Europe, since the 2012/13 season, the team chaired by Nasser-Al Khelaifi could not achieve its mission in the contest that brings together the best teams in the old continent.

The Parisian team has been behind the feat of positioning itself at the top internationally for ten years now. All the attempts have come to nothing, with the most melancholic memory in the 2019/20 edition after falling in the final against their last executioner, Bayern.

Since then there have been four eliminations in the quarterfinals, in 2012/13 against Barcelona, ​​in 2013/14 with the chelsea2014/15 facing Barça again and in the 2015/16 season against manchester city.

From that season on, all the eliminations, with the exception of the aforementioned runner-up in 2019/20 and the loss in the semifinals in 2021/21 with City, came early in the round of 16. In the 2016/17 edition it was lost against Barcelona, ​​​​2017/18 against real Madrid2018/19 vs. manManchester Utd.