Bayern Munich vs Lyon Champions League semi-final Match Preview or Key Statistics 🔥
FC Bayern München and Lyon will meet in European competition for the ninth time, with the German side winning four of the previous eight (D2 L2). Indeed, the last time they met was also in the Champions League semi-finals, with Bayern winning 4-0 on aggregate in 2009-10.
Robert Lewandowski has scored in eight consecutive UEFA Champions League appearances for Bayern München - only Ruud Van Nistelrooy in 2003 (9) and Cristiano Ronaldo in 2018 (11) have scored in more successive matches in the competition's history; indeed, only Cristiano Ronaldo (17 in 13/14, 16 in 15/16 & 15 in 17/18) has scored more goals in a single Champions League season than Lewandowski this campaign (14). In their respective quarter-finals,
This will be FC Bayern München's 12th appearance in the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League, with only Real Madrid (13) reaching the final four of the competition on more occasions; the German side have failed to progress from each of their last four semi-finals, since winning the competition in 2012/13.
Lyon manager Rudi Garcia is looking to become just the second French manager to lead a French team to the Champions League final, following Didier Deschamps with Monaco back in 2003-04.
FC Bayern München are just the second side in UEFA Champions League history to win their first nine games in a campaign (after Barcelona in 2002/03 a run of nine), whilst a victory in this match would see them equal the longest winning run in the competition's history (10 set by Bayern in November 2013 and Real Madrid in February 2015).
Lyon midfielder Houssem Aouar has asisted seven goals in his 14 appearances in the Champions League; since his debut season in the competition in 2018-19, only Kylian Mbappé (10) and Riyad Mahrez (eight) have more assists.
In all competitions, FC Bayern München are on the longest unbeaten run across Europe's top five league's (P28 W27 D1 LO), scoring 94 goals during this run (3.4 per game) and winning each of their last 19. In the UEFA Champions League alone this season they have netted 39 goals, with only three sides Scoring more in a single campaign in the competition's history.
Lyon have not won consecutive Champions League matches in a single campaign since the 2011-12 season when defeating Dinamo Zagreb and APOEL Nicosia, 2019-20 is their fourth Champions League campaign since then.
Bayern's Philippe Coutinho and Lyon's Moussa Dembele both scored twice as 75th minute substitutes. They now both jointly hold the record for fewest minutes played in a Champions League knockout match while scoring at least twice (15 minutes).
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