PSG and Bayern just killed boring football
YOAN VALAT/Shutterstock This was four glorious games in one. A breathless 90-minute scoreline that looked like a two-leg aggregate. It felt like the death-knell for the era of careful, possession-heavy football – replaced by something much more reckless and thrilling that could make a manager look like a visionary one moment and a novice the next.
This may also have been Luis Díaz’s finest hour, because when the elite in the game turn it on like this in a Champions League semi-final it says something about the measure of the man who stands out. The great Colombia international, formerly of Liverpool, was the beating heart of this Bayern Munich resurgence, a team put on the canvas repeatedly by the European champions, and yet unwilling to accept it was over. Harry Kane scored the penalty that was the first of this nine-goal extravaganza and for the Englishman the dream of a second Champions League final next month in Budapest is still alive.
This was the highest-scoring semi-final game in the Champions League and its predecessor since Eintracht Frankfurt and Rangers shared nine goals in the second leg for a 12-4 aggregate for the Germans in the 1960 European Cup. Still time for more to come in Munich next Wednesday, although it will be hard to repeat the raw energy of this night. Harry Kane makes NO MISTAKE from the spot to open the scoring for Bayern!
🔴 pic. twitter. com/vIWr2uUTOj — Prime Video Sport UK (@primevideosport) April 28, 2026 Paris St-Germain were a sensation – they often are, but they could not shake the Bavarians snapping at their ankles and shouldering ahead of them from set-pieces.
Between them, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Ousmane Dembélé scored four of the five goals and the second leg is set in PSG’s favour – but only marginally. There was a period from the end of the first half to the hour mark when this semi-final looked to be over as the scoreline climbed from 2-2 to 5-2 in PSG’s favour. The goals from Dayot Upamecano and then Díaz made it a contest all over again.
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