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Holders Paris St Germain drew 1-1 astatine Bayern Munich connected Wednesday to scope the Champions League final, earning a 6-5 aggregate triumph aft a compelling 2nd limb that was acold cagier than their goal-laden archetypal encounter.
Ousmane Dembele's extremity aft 3 minutes acceptable PSG connected their way, portion Bayern could not get the amended of the French side's organised defence until Harry Kane's leveller heavy successful second-half stoppage time.
The French broadside volition look Arsenal successful the May 30 showcase crippled successful Budapest aft the London club's 1-0 triumph implicit Atletico Madrid connected Tuesday secured a 2-1 aggregate win.
Bayern, hoping to scope their archetypal Champions League last since 2020, saw their treble hopes dashed and tin present lone adhd the German Cup to their Bundesliga crown this season.
"The quality we showed against a squad similar Bayern is truthful positive," said PSG manager Luis Enrique, who has guided the squad to back-to-back Champions League finals.
"We're truthful blessed to scope a 2nd Champions League last successful a row. It was very intense. Very difficult. They play shot astatine the highest level. Both teams are similar, we emotion to property higher. We are precise happy," helium said.
Holding a 5-4 vantage from a scintillating archetypal leg, PSG got disconnected to a cleanable start erstwhile Dembele, who scored doubly past week, rifled location from a perfectly timed Khvicha Kvaratskhelia cutback. Dembele and Kvaratskhelia had some scored doubly successful the archetypal leg.
Bayern upped the unit astir instantly and went close but some Michael Olise and Luis Diaz narrowly missed the people with shots from the borderline of the box.
The Germans had boxed their opponents successful their ain fractional but keeper Manuel Neuer inactive had to travel to their rescue successful the 33rd minute, palming Joao Neves' header wide to support Bayern successful the game.
His PSG counterpart Matvei Safonov responded with a superb prevention of his own, stopping Jamal Musiala's debased thrust from adjacent scope a infinitesimal earlier the break.
It was initially one-way postulation aft the interval with PSG again sitting back, but threatening connected the counter-attack.
With the hosts, who needed 2 goals, increasing much desperate, PSG recovered much abstraction successful the 2nd fractional and went adjacent through Desire Doue and Kvaratskhelia precocious successful the game.
Bayern's apical scorer Kane, who had hardly had a look-in, recovered conscionable capable abstraction to drill successful a stoppage-time equaliser, scoring for a seventh consecutive crippled successful the competition.
But his 55th extremity crossed each competitions this play for Bayern came excessively precocious arsenic the hosts ran retired of time.
"Somehow it felt similar we were missing the last punch, that truly wide 100 percent chance," said Bayern defender Konrad Laimer. "In the end, that 1 extremity came a small excessively late. I deliberation if it comes a spot earlier, past the full stadium comes live again."
