Desire Doué scored in the 78th minute, Ousmane Dembele added a second in stoppage time as Paris Saint-Germain sealed their place in the Fifa Club World Cup semifinals with a 2-0 quarterfinal win over Bayern Munich last night in Atlanta.
PSG, who played the closing minutes with just nine players after a pair of red cards, still added a goal to seal the victory.
Referee Anthony Taylor dismissed Willian Pacho in the 82nd minute for his dangerous challenge on Thomas Muller, and sent off Lucas Hernandez in the second minute of second-half stoppage time for an elbow in the direction of Raphael Guerreiro.
But Doue and Dembele’s first goals of the tournament were enough to seal a meeting with the winner of yesterday’s second semifinal between Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund in East Rutherford, New Jersey, on Wednesday.
Gianluigi Donnarumma made five saves to keep PSG’s fourth clean sheet of the tournament.
Bayern exits the tournament after being held scoreless for the first time, on a day when they lost Josip Stanisic and Jamal Musiala to first-half injuries.
It was still 11-on-11 when Doue took Joao Neves’s pass, created some space near the edge of the penalty area, then unleashed a left-footed strike that found the bottom right corner, as Bayern keeper Manuel Neuer slipped while trying to change direction.
Dembele doubled the advantage on a stunning foray forward despite the numerical disadvantage and some brilliant setup work by Achraf Hakimi, who beat three defenders off the dribble. Hakimi then fed Dembele in stride for a first-time low finish that left Neuer little chance.
Bayern thought they had a chance to pull a late goal back when Taylor whistled for a penalty even later in stoppage time, only to reverse his decision following a video review.
Musiala departed on a stretcher at half-time after suffering a gruesome ankle injury following a tangle for the ball with Donnarumma that did not show any signs of ill intent. Even Donnaruma was distraught after seeing the extent of Musiala’s injury, which came in the final seconds of the first half.
Twelve minutes earlier, Stanisic exited with an apparent hamstring injury.
Donnaruma made a pair of exceptional first-half saves. In the 27th minute, he sprung to his right to parry Michael Olise’s goal-bound effort from just beyond the corner of the 6-yard box. In the 41st, he sprawled the opposite direction to keep Aleksandar Pavlovic’s effort — an intended early cross that was inches in front of Musiala near the penalty spot — from bounding inside the right post.
Neuer was also called into action during the first half, thwarting Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s effort from close range at the near post with an outstretched arm in the 32nd minute. Four minutes into the second half, he dived left to deny Bradley Barcola on the break.
— Field Level Media
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