Minute-by-minute report: Who will take the initiative at the Parc des Princes as the champions of France and Germany face off? Find out with Daniel Harris.
But when Bayern get the ball away, it’s stuck back in and Sommer comes, flapping just about well enough and taking out Danilo, who needs a spot of treatment. 48 min Danilo races down the left and Pavard, who’s been booked, shoves him. For the uninitiated, it’s a BBC gameshow that’s essentially Mafia, and features all the intensified emotion over nothing that makes reality telly so weirdly compelling. except Donnarumma dives over it, helping it in, and though his defenders gave him nae help, leaving a man free inside the box, ye’ve gottae save that. 63 min Musiala’s been quiet tonight, but he turns up on the right and draws Mendes in, then skips away, crosses … Goretzka finds Choupo-Moting down the left and he lays back for Davies, who measures a fine cross onto the side of Coman’s right boot. Meantime, Kimmich, in a spot of space 25 yards out, wafts a drive well over the top. All that’s missing here on the PSG side is, well, the Shazam moment. But a poor touch allows Sommer to come out and forces the lifted finish, the keeper doing really well to block it before saving Neymar’s shot; Mbappe sticks home the rebound, but he’s miles offside. I only know about him and Reconstruction because of a podcast I listen to has been doing a running series of interviews on the topic.” 81 min I thought Paris’ wing-backs would have an impact on the game, but in the event they’ve done almost nothing. But Donnarumma makes another decent save, diving left to shove away – though perhaps once he was there, De Ligt ought to have directed his header further towards the corner.