🧨 Wild PSG-Bayern: historic 5-4! Dembélé+Kvara 🤯 Olise-Kane-Díaz hit 💯 | OneFootball

We witnessed history tonight: PSG beat Bayern 5-4 at the Parc des Princes, in the highest-scoring semi-final in Champions League history.

A match with three different comebacks: PSG turned it around from 0-1 (Kane) to 2-1 (Kvara and Neves), then Bayern made it 2-2 (Olise), and PSG struck again from the penalty spot for 3-2 (Dembélé) in first-half stoppage time.

Early in the second half, the Parisians went 5-2 up through goals from Kvara and Dembélé (a brace for both), before Upamecano and Luis Diaz pulled two back, with the latter scoring an absolute beauty.

Never before in Champions League semi-final history had there been 5 goals in the 1st half: Kane opened the scoring from the penalty spot (won by L. Diaz after a foul by Pacho), Kvara equalised with his trademark curling effort, and PSG came from behind thanks to Joao Neves’ header from a corner; Olise made it 2-2 with a fantastic solo move, but late on came Dembélé’s counter-comeback: 3-2 from a controversial penalty, awarded for a handball by Davies in the box.

The second half was no different: Kvara and Dembélé completed their braces within three minutes (56' and 59'), but Bayern hit back quickly through Upamecano’s header and a moment of magic from Luis Diaz. With that goal, the Olise-Kane-Luis Diaz front three reached 100 goals for the season (here are the other trios to do it). Late on, Mayulu hit the crossbar and, in any case, qualification will be decided at the Allianz Arena in Munich.

🧮 NEVER this many goals in a semi-final

FULL TIME - Never in Champions League history had 8 goals been scored in a semi-final; today we saw 9 in this 5-4 thriller.

Overall, only 4 Champions League matches have had more than 9 goals in a single game (Dortmund-Legia Warsaw 8-4; Monaco-Deportivo La Coruna 8-3; Bayern-Dinamo Zagreb 9-2; Barcelona-Bayern Munich 8-2).

💯 100 GOALS for the Olise-Kane-Diaz front three

The Olise-Kane-Diaz front three join the very exclusive club of trios with at least 100 goals in a season (here are the others). They are the first trio to do it without playing for Barcelona or Real Madrid.

😮 Upamecano pulls one back and L. Diaz MAGIC: 5-4

MINUTE 69 - Absolute magic from Luis Diaz: the Colombian brings down a very difficult long ball, feints to shoot against Marquinhos, dribbles past him, then fires hard into the far corner.

MINUTE 65 - Kimmich swings in a free-kick, Upamecano rises highest and scores to make it 5-3. It is his 7th goal in a Bayern shirt.

😱 BRACES for Kvara and Dembélé! 2 goals in 3': it's 5-2

MINUTE 59 - A brace for Dembélé too, making it 5-2: Doué provides the assist for the Ballon d'Or winner, who gets past Upamecano and shoots; the ball hits the post and goes in.

MINUTE 56 - Kvaratskhelia gets his brace for 4-2: Hakimi breaks down the right, cuts it back low for Kvara, who hits it first time and catches Neuer wrong-footed.

RANDOM STATS: this was Kvara’s 100th career goal as a professional. He also reaches 15 goal contributions (assists and goals) in this Champions League, beating Dembélé’s record set last season.  

📊 NEVER before 5 goals in the 1st half of a semi-final

HALF-TIME - As reported by Opta, never before in history had there been 5 goals in the first half of a Champions League semi-final. We are witnessing history.

❗Dembélé from the spot: 3-2 in the 1st half! Protests over Davies

MINUTE 45+1 -  Davies touches the ball first with his thigh and then it strikes his arm in the box: referee Schärer awards the penalty anyway.

There is some discussion among the PSG players over who will take it, then Dembélé steps up and places it into the corner despite Neuer getting a touch.

🤩 Bayern’s COUNTER-COMEBACK: 2-2 through Olise in the 42nd minute

MINUTE 42 - Bayern come from behind against PSG: Olise receives the ball on the edge of the box and, despite being surrounded by opponents, still manages to dribble and smash it in under the bar.

RANDOM STATS: the Olise-Kane-Diaz front three are now just one goal away from reaching 100 goals in all competitions this season.

🧨PSG comeback: 2-1 with Neves... with a header! 🤯

MINUTE 34 - Dembélé takes a corner from the left: Joao Neves (despite being just 174 cm tall) leaps powerfully and heads it into the far corner, leaving Neuer with no chance.

💥 Kvara makes it 1-1 with a curling shot! Dembélé’s record matched

MINUTE 25 - Kvaratskhelia makes it 1-1 with the most classic of his goals: he receives the ball on the left side of the box, cuts inside and curls it into the bottom corner.

😱 Marquinhos clears off the line, Dembélé misses

MINUTE 23 - Dembélé is played through, gets in front of Neuer, but somehow misses from around 2 metres out: a chance worth 0.43 xG.

MINUTE 20 - Kane feeds Olise in the box, he shoots at goal: Safonov parries and Marquinhos clears it off the line.

💣 Kane makes it 1-0 from the spot! He’s in Bayern history

MINUTE 17 - Luis Diaz sparks a counterattack from deep inside his own half: he beats three men and starts the move. Kane receives it, finds Olise in the box, and Olise lays it off for Luis Diaz: Pacho arrives late and brings him down. Kane steps up and sends Safonov the wrong way.

RANDOM STATS: Kane becomes the 9th top scorer in Bayern Munich’s all-time rankings with 139 goals in just 142 matches.

RANDOM STATS: Kane is only the 2nd Bayern player to score in 5 consecutive Champions League knockout matches, after Robert Lewandowski between 2016 and 2018.  

🎥 “Napoleonic” choreography for PSG

PSG fans welcomed the teams with a choreography paying tribute to France and Napoleon’s troops at the Battle of Arcole Bridge. The stand made clear which battle must be won: "The conquest of Europe".

⚽ Goals expected! They have NEVER drawn against each other ❌

PSG and Bayern Munich have never drawn in history: 16 matches in which at least one of the two teams has scored at least one goal.

Looking at this season’s numbers, boredom was never going to be on the cards: Bayern have scored in every Champions League match in '25/26 and PSG had found the net in each of their last 8 consecutive games.

✅ The OFFICIAL line-ups

PSG (4-3-3): Safonov; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Nuno Mendes; Zaire-Emery, Vitinha, João Neves; Doué, Dembélé, Kvaratskhelia.

BAYERN MUNICH (4-2-3-1): Neuer; Stanisic, Upamecano, Tah, Davies; Kimmich, Pavlovic; Olise, Musiala, Diaz; Kane.

As a reminder, Kompany will not be on the bench due to the third booking of the season he picked up against Real Madrid.

Aaron Danks will take his place: the 42-year-old Englishman worked with Kompany back in their Anderlecht days and was assistant coach at Aston Villa under Dean Smith, Gerrard and Emery.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.

📸 ALAIN JOCARD - AFP and licensors