{"id":91791,"date":"2026-05-06T21:14:04","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:14:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/psg-hold-off-bayern-to-set-up-ucl-final-with-arsenal\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T21:14:04","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T21:14:04","slug":"psg-hold-off-bayern-to-set-up-ucl-final-with-arsenal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/psg-hold-off-bayern-to-set-up-ucl-final-with-arsenal\/","title":{"rendered":"PSG hold off Bayern to set up UCL final with Arsenal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Luis Enrique and Paris Saint-Germain are headed back to the Champions League final after a 1-1 second-leg semifinal draw with Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n<p>PSG edged a thrilling 5-4 game in the first leg in Paris last week, and the defending champions made the advantage count to progress 6-5 on aggregate to set up a final in Budapest against Arsenal on May 30.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"inline editorial float-r\" data-behavior=\"article_related\">\n<h2 class=\"editorial-title\">Editor&#8217;s Picks<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2026\/0506\/r1654466_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<li><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/a.espncdn.com\/combiner\/i?img=\/photo\/2026\/0505\/r1653997_1296x1296_1-1.jpg&amp;w=130&amp;h=130&amp;scale=crop&amp;location=center\" width=\"65\" height=\"65\"\/><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>1 Related<\/p>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Ousmane Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 blasted home a first-time finish to open the scoring, with the assist going to Khvicha Kvaratskhelia after a blistering run down the left flank and cutback pass to the France international.<\/p>\n<p>Bayern were up in arms shortly after 30-minute mark when the referee neglected to call handball on Nuno Mendes, who was already on a yellow card, and then waved off shouts for another possible handball on Jo\u00e3o Neves &#8212; this one coming in PSG&#8217;s own penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>It did not appear the VAR was consulted on either decision, while replays showed that the referee had already blown his whistle for a handball on Bayern&#8217;s Konrad Laimer before the perceived Mendes infraction.<\/p>\n<p>With the assist, Kvaratskhelia became the first player to score or assist in seven consecutive Champions League knockout stage games in a single season and drew level with Kylian Mbapp\u00e9 for the most goal contributions in the UCL season with 16 (10 goals, six assists).<\/p>\n<p>Try as they might, the hosts could not find a way back into the game in the second half until Harry Kane scored a late consolation goal just before the final whistle blew. Bayern had won five of their last seven meetings with PSG in Munich, and were going for a repeat of the Champions League, Bundesliga and German Cup treble they won in 2020 and 2013.<\/p>\n<p>That bid ultimately came up one goal short.<\/p>\n<p>PSG and Bayern came into the second leg as the top-scoring sides in the competition with 43 and 42 goals, respectively. It&#8217;s the first time two teams have scored more than 40 in the same season &#8212; with the expanded League Phase format playing a role.<\/p>\n<p>Arsenal sealed their spot in the final on Tuesday with a 1-0 win over Atl\u00e9tico Madrid to advance 2-1 on aggregate over Diego Simeone&#8217;s side.<\/p>\n<p>PSG will try to become only the second team to repeat as Champions League winners, with Real Madrid having done so twice by winning the competition three times in a row between 2016 and 2018.<\/p>\n<p><em>Information from The Associated Press and ESPN Global Research was used in this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Luis Enrique and Paris Saint-Germain are headed back to the Champions League final after a 1-1 second-leg semifinal draw with Bayern Munich at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday night. PSG edged a thrilling 5-4 game in the first leg in Paris last week, and the defending champions made the advantage count to progress 6-5 on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91792,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_daextam_enable_autolinks":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-91791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football-transfers"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/r1654497_1296x729_16-9.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=91791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diyhaven858.wasmer.app\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}