Paris Saint-Germain edged Bayern Munich 5-4 in the breathless first leg of their Champions League semi-final on Tuesday night.
There were nine goals in all; five in the first half and four in the second. PSG got one more of them than Bayern, but will only take a slender advantage to Bavaria for next week’s second leg.
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Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Ousmane Dembele got two each for PSG while Joao Neves got the other. Bayern, meanwhile, had four different goalscorers: Harry Kane, Michael Olise, Dayot Upamecano and Luis Diaz.
PSG lead 3-2 at half-time through Ousmane Dembele’s stoppage-time penalty. Kvaratskhelia and Dembele then both scored in the space of 143 seconds to put PSG 5-2 up in the 58th minute.
But Bayern hit back with two goals in three minutes through Upamecano and Luis Diaz to make it 5-4 and give them hope for next Wednesday’s return leg.
It was also the joint-highest scoring semi-final match in European Cup history after Rangers’ 6-3 loss to Eintracht Frankfurt in 1960.
The winner after the second leg in eight days’ time will face Arsenal or Atletico Madrid in the Champions League final.
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