German giant Bayern Munich have won the European Cup for the
sixth time on Sunday as young starlet Kingsley Coman’s goal gave them a 1-0 win
over Paris Saint-Germain in an engrossing Champions League final in Lisbon.
It was often a cagey final, with a bit of needle between the
teams, but chances too, especially before Coman appeared at the back post to head
in Joshua Kimmich’s  cross in the 59th-minute
and wrap up a treble for a team who had already won the Bundesliga and
German Cup.
Hansi Flick’s team will feel they
deserved their victory, yet PSG will regret not taking any of the chances that
were offered up to them on a surreal occasion at an empty Estadio da Luz arena.
The France World Cup-winning striker Kylian Mbappe had earlier spoken
of his determination to be in his country’s history by helping PSG become just
the second French winners of European football’s greatest prize.
But they will have to wait for the
chance to match Marseille, who won the inaugural Champions League in 1993.
The defeat will be especially
painful for P.S.G. and its Qatari owners, who have spent a decade — and
hundreds of millions of dollars — to build a team that could deliver the
Champions League, the biggest prize in European soccer. But while its
star-studded team, led by the Brazilian forward Neymar and the French World Cup
winner Kylian Mbappé, created dangerous chances against Bayern, it could never
break through.
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