Bayern Munich condemn PSG to another March exit in Champions League

09.03.2023 - 01:43 rte.ie

Former Paris St Germain forward Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting helped knock his old side out of the Champions League as Bayern Munich sealed a dominant 3-0 aggregate victory.Leading 1-0 from the first leg in Paris, the 33-year-old scored the opener in a 2-0 second-leg victory to send the Bundesliga giants through to the quarter-finals.The Cameroon international benefited from a defensive mistake from 17-year-old substitute El Chadaille Bitshiabu to score just past the hour mark before Serge Gnabry put the seal on another European failure for the big-spending French club.PSG have now exited the last-16 stage of the Champions League for the fifth time in seven seasons.The quarter-final draw will take place on 17 March.

FULL MATCH DETAILS Bitshiabu, who had only come on at half-time to replace Nordi Mukiele - who lasted just nine minutes himself after replacing the injured Marquinhos - tried to play out from the left-back position but put Marco Verratti under pressure and he was robbed by Thomas Muller.Muller moved it on to Leon Goretzka, who drew Gianluigi Donnarumma before rolling a pass to his left for Choupo-Moting to score his 17th of the season.The former Stoke striker thought he had opened the scoring in the 52nd minute when he glanced Jamal Musiala's inviting curling ball into the bottom right corner, only for VAR to rule it out due to an offside against Muller, who was interfering as he attempted to play the ball.While Choupo-Moting may have delivered the decisive blow, the hosts - and certainly goalkeeper Yann Sommer - were indebted to Matthijs de Ligt after he cleared a Ferreira Vitinha shot off the line just before the break.Sommer attempted to dribble out of his box and Achraf Hakimi pressured him into presenting the

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