Both AC Milan and Bayern Munich are looking forward to Wednesday's rematch against Tottenham Hotspur and Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League round of 16 with a minimal lead.
However, it is a big difference that the German champion team won the first leg of the match 1-0 away from home, so they can face their rival with confidence. The clash between the two teams in Paris - just like the 2020 final - was decided by PSG coach Kingsley Coman in favor of the Germans.
Kylian Mbappé, recovering from his injury, only played as a substitute in that match at PSG, but he still brought momentum and danger to the French team's game. The world champion in 2018, who scored a hat-trick in the World Cup final against Argentina in December, has since fully recovered and scored his 201st goal for the Parisians over the weekend, making him the most successful player in the club's history.
At the same time, PSG will be without Brazilian Neymar, who is facing ankle surgery and is expected to be out of action this season. In other words, the super trio supplemented by the seven-time Ballon d'Or winner Lionel Messi will be a duo again this time.
PSG was able to take Munich's Allianz Arena before, winning 3-2 away in the first leg of the 2020/21 quarter-finals, and then even the 1-0 defeat at home was enough to reach the top four. Now, a possible one-goal success would only mean extra time due to the abolition of the rule regarding away goals.
On the other hand, it definitely increases Bayern's chances that in its history - out of 27 times - it has only lost once in a European cup match in which it won the first match away from home: in the 2010/11 Champions League competition in Milan, it beat Internazionale 1-0, its own however, he lost 3-2 in front of his audience.
The meeting will be broadcast live by M4 Sport from 9 p.m.
In the other meeting on Wednesday, two teams that are not very strong in their home country, Tottenham Hotspur and AC Milan, will meet each other. The Londoners, who are in fourth place in the league, first said goodbye to the FA Cup against Sheffield United in the second division, then they lost in the Premier League at the home of Wolverhampton Wanderers at the weekend, so Liverpool came three points closer to them in the table. In Serie A, Milan, the defending champion, suffered a defeat as a guest of Fiorentina and slipped from the fourth place, which marks the start of the Champions League.
During their history, the seven-time BEK/BL-winners from Milan often got into trouble against English teams. In the back-and-forth duels, one of the successful teams of the series advanced eight times, but lost seven times against their island rivals, and lost five of the last six such duels.
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