Bayern Munich v PSG player ratings: De Ligt 8, Choupo-Moting 7; Messi 6 Mbappe 7

German champions win 2-0 on night and 3-0 on aggregate to seal Champions League quarter-final spot

Former Paris Saint-Germain forward Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting helped knock his old side out of the Champions League as Bayern Munich sealed a dominant 3-0 aggregate victory.

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 through to the quarter-finals.

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The Cameroon international scored just past the hour mark before Serge Gnabry put the seal on another European failure for the big-spending French club.

El Chadaille Bitshiabu, who had only come on at half time to replace Nordi Mukiele – who lasted just nine minutes himself after replacing the injured Marquinhos – tried to play out from the left-back position but put Marco Verratti under pressure and he was robbed by Thomas Muller.

Muller moved it on to Leon Goretzka, who drew Gianluigi Donnarumma before rolling a pass to his left for Choupo-Moting to score his 17th of the season.

The former Stoke City striker thought he had opened the scoring in the 52nd minute when he glanced Jamal Musiala's inviting curling ball into the bottom right corner, only for VAR to rule it out due to an offside against Muller, who was interfering as he attempted to play the ball.

While Choupo-Moting may have delivered the decisive blow, the hosts – and certainly goalkeeper Yann Sommer – were indebted to Matthijs de Ligt after he cleared a Ferreira Vitinha shot off the line just before the break.

Sommer attempted to dribble out of his box and Achraf Hakimi pressured him into presenting the ball to Vitinha who rolled a shot past the goalkeeper towards an empty net only for the Netherlands international to slide in and hook clear.

Just before that PSG had lost captain Marquinhos to injury, allowing the club's record goalscorer Kylian Mbappe to take the armband but the additional responsibility could not inspire any heroics from the France striker.

Bayern's defensive resilience in Europe this season – this was their seventh clean sheet in eight matches – meant even a side featuring Mbappe and Lionel Messi faltered as PSG failed to get past the last 16 stage for the fifth time in seven years.

Updated: March 09, 2023, 2:44 AM