Bayern Munich defender Alphonso Davies predicts that Sunday’s Champions League final against Paris Saint-Germain will be a goalfest.
The post-match discussion among the pundits after Bayern’s 3-0 semi-final win over Lyon centred on whether PSG’s star-studded attack of Kylian Mbappe, Neymar and Angel Di Maria would take advantage of the Bayern defence’s high line.
But in Robert Lewandowski, who completed the scoreline against Lyon, Bayern have a striker who has netted 55 goals this season.
‘PSG are a good team,’ Bayern left back Davies said on BT. ‘It will be a good game. There will be goals in that game.
‘This is what you dream about as a footballer, playing with the best and against the best in Europe.
‘Even though they (his older team-mates) have won many, many titles before, they are still hungry to win this one.’
Rio Ferdinand warned on BT that Bayern’s tactics could cost them in the final if they do not make changes.
‘They leave themselves wide open at the back,’ said Ferdinand. ‘We hammered Pep (Guardiola) for changing his tactics against Lyon. Now we’re asking (Hans-Dieter) Flick to change things.
‘If Mbappe, Neymar and Di Maria get the chances Lyon got, Bayern will be down 3-0 before they can say boo!’
Lyon were given several chances to take the lead against the German champions in the opening exchanges of the game.
Karl Toko Ekambi hit the post for the visitors just seconds before Serge Gnabry scored the opening goal of the game, while Lyon captain Memphis Depay hit the side netting when put through one-on-one.
Ekambi told RMC Sport: ‘We’re thinking we could have done better and we could have scored some goals before they did.
‘Luck wasn’t on our side. We missed chances and we were up against a great team. We found out they were unbeatable.
‘We started really well and we should have scored. My shot that hit the post could have gone in.
‘When you do things as a team, anything is possible. We showed it during this campaign.’
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