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Former Paris St Germain striker Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting helped knock his old side out of the Champions League as Bayern Munich won 3-0 on aggregate.
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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 into the quarter-finals.
The Cameroon international benefited from a defensive error from 17-year-old substitute El Chadaille Bitshiabu to score just past the hour mark before Serge Gnabry sealed another European failure for the big-spending French club.
Bitshiabu, who only came on at half-time to replace Nordi Mukiele – who was only nine minutes himself after replacing the injured Marquinhos – tried to play out of the left-back position but put Marco Verratti under pressure and he was robbed by Thomas. Müller.
Muller passed to Leon Goretzka, who drew Gianluigi Donnarumma before slotting a pass down the 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 saw Jamal Musiala’s inviting ball into the bottom right-hand corner, only for VAR to rule it out for offside against Muller, who had interfered with the play-on. ball.
While Choupo-Moting may have provided the decisive blow, the hosts – and of course goalkeeper Yann Sommer – were indebted to Matthijs de Ligt after clearing Ferreira Vitinha’s shot off the line before the break.
PSG have now failed to get past the last 16 stage for the fifth time in seven years.
Sommer tried to dribble out of the box and Achraf Hakimi forced him to feed the ball to Vitinha who shot past the keeper into an empty net only for the Holland international to step in and save.
Earlier PSG lost captain Marquinhos to injury, allowing club record goalscorer Kylian Mbappe to take the armband but the added responsibility failed to inspire the French striker.
The closest he came on the night was in the 14th minute when he had the ball in the net, but the whistle was blown as he chipped into Sommer on the edge of the penalty area.
Bayern’s defensive resilience in Europe this season – it was their seventh clean sheet in eight games – meant that even a team featuring Mbappe and Lionel Messi faltered as PSG failed to get past the last 16 for the fifth time in seven years.
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