Bayern Munich's numbers, Lyon Manager Rudi Garcia had stated, were scaring to such an extent that they were best disregarded. Unbeaten since early December. Faultless, with not even a point dropped, in 19 back to back games. Scoring objectives at an eye-watering rate.
"On the off chance that we simply take a gander at the measurements," Garcia had said before Lyon confronted Bayern in the Champions League elimination round on Wednesday night in Lisbon, "we should watch the game in the inn."
Lyon proved unable, at long last, prevent Bayern's large red machine from moving on to its first Champions League last since winning the opposition in 2013. Two objectives from Serge Gnabry — the initial a bone-shaking finish from the edge of the punishment territory, the second a crude tap-in — adequately settled the game before halftime. Robert Lewandowski, scoring his 55th objective of the period and his fifteenth in this current season's Champions League, included a third a header in the 88th moment.
Lyon was not really an aloof onlooker to the procedures, however. This was no docile acquiescence, as RB Leipzig's annihilation to Paris St.- Germain by a similar score line on Tuesday night had been. Twice, Lyon verged on starting to lead the pack before Gnabry opened the scoring. In the subsequent half, whenever most would have considered its opportunity blown, Lyon kept on pushing forward, scanning for the cut of favorable luck that may have brought its players a life saver.
P.S.G., positively, will have seen enough from Lyon to accept that Bayern may be more powerless in Sunday's last than Wednesday's last score recommended: the pace of Kylian Mbappé, the art of Neymar and the undertaking of Ángel Di María should inconvenience a Bayern protective line that attempted to contain Karl Toko Ekambi and Memphis Depay.
The difficulty, for P.S.G. furthermore, every other person, is the thing that Bayern offers at the opposite finish of the field. Lewandowski is the feature danger, however the German boss fibers with dangers no matter how you look at it. Gnabry was the star on Wednesday, his amazing run and fearsome wrap up Lyon's souls after a splendid beginning. In any case, there were commendable commitments from Lewandowski — scoring in his tenth consecutive Champions League game, and now just two objectives from Cristiano Ronaldo's record of 17 out of a solitary battle — yet in addition from Leon Goretzka, Alphonso Davies and Thiago Alcantara, as well.
The experience that Bayern's chief, Hansi Flick, can approach may loan an edge, as well. In Manuel Neuer, Thomas Müller, Jérôme Boateng and David Alaba, Bayern has four overcomers of its triumph over Borussia Dortmund in the 2013 last. Five, really, on the off chance that one incorporates Lewandowski, who was in Dortmund's yellow and dark that night.
P.S.G., obviously, has never arrived at the last this season, however a few of its players have. Di María won the competition in 2014 with Real Madrid, and Neymar lifted the trophy a year later with Barcelona. They and Mbappé won't plan to be aloof onlookers, and will accept they can have a preferably better result over Lyon did.
