UEFA Champions League

Possible Lineups for Bayern Lyon Champions League | Newspapers give predicted starting XI for Munich OL

Here is a look at the predicted starting lineups for Bayern Munich vs Lyon from the big French and German newspapers. The referee for this Champions League semifinal will be Mateu Lahoz from Spain.

All three newspapers (L’Equipe, Bild and Abendzeitung Munchen) seem to more or less agree on the probable starting players, as can be seen below.

Edit- 7pm, the official lineups for both sides are the same as the predicted ones below.

Predicted Lyon lineup vs Bayern Champions League: Lopes, Marcal, Marcelo, Denayer, Cornet, Guimaraes, Caqueret, Aouar, Dubois, Toko Ekambi, Memphis

Possible FC Bayern lineup vs OL CL: Neuer, Davies, Alaba, Boateng, Kimmich, Thiago, Goretzka, Perisic, Muller, Gnabry, Lewandowski

Bild probable starting lineup for Bayern-Lyon

Possible starting lineup for Bayern vs Lyon Bild Newspaper

Abendzeitung Munchen possible Bayern Lyon starting lineups UCL semifinal

AZ think Kingsley Coman will be starting ahead of Ivan Perisic- their only difference from Bild’s starting lineup for Bayern.

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Newspaper Player Ratings RB Leipzig 0-3 PSG 18 August | How did Di Maria, Dani Olmo and co. play?

Here is a look at the newspaper player ratings from some of the big French and German newspapers following Leipzig’s 3-0 defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.

L’Equipe player ratings Leipzig Paris SG

L’Equipe thought Angel di Maria was the pick of the players, giving him a 9/10. However Kylian Mbappe was disappointing- only a 5/10, perhaps due to the chances he missed as shown in this xG chart for the game.

A manager rating of 3/10 for RBL’s Nagelsmann, versus a 8/10 for Thomas Tuchel.

Player Ratings Leipzig vs PSG L'Equipe Champions League

Le Parisien PSG player ratings vs Leipzig Champions League semi final

On to Le Parisien, and they, like L’Equipe absolutely loved Di Maria’s performance, saying that it was a thoroughly deserved MOTM award for the Argentine.

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xG PSG Leipzig Champions League 2020 Semi Final | Expected Goals & Full Time Match Stats Paris SG RBL

Click here for xG stats Paris SG Bayern Munich Champions League Final

PSG produced a commanding performance to beat RB Leipzig 3-0 on 18 August, 2020 and reach their first Champions League final.

xG PSG 3.10-1.03 RB Leipzig (Actual score PSG 3-0 Leipzig)

PSG’s dominance shows in the quality of the chances they created. Leipzig probably did enough to warrant scoring at least one goal (especially in the second half), but couldn’t.

xG Paris SG Leipzig Champions League 2020 Stats

xG of individual Paris Saint Germain goals vs RBL CL semifinal

Marquinhos goal 1-0 13′ xG (0.51)
Di Maria goal 2-0 42′ xG (0.49)
Bernat goal 3-0 56′ xG (0.39)

xG of other big chances for Paris St Germain and RB Leipzig that didn’t result in a goal

RB Leipzig: Patrick Schick 82′ xG (0.43)
Paris SG: Neymar 6′ xG (0.47), Mbappe 17′ xG (0.50), Mbappe 70′ xG (0.32)

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