A potential UEFA Champions League thriller awaits. We look ahead to the first leg of Tuesday’s semi-final with our Paris Saint-Germain vs Bayern Munich prediction and preview.
PSG vs Bayern Munich: The Key Stats
Paris Saint-Germain beat Bayern Munich in the first leg of this tie across 41.1% of the pre-match simulations by the Opta supercomputer. Harry Kane’s 12 goals this season are already the most by an English player in a European Cup/Champions League campaign. Bayern have won each of their last five games against PSG in the Champions League, including one earlier this season.Paris Saint-Germain will hope to draw first blood in a mouth-watering Champions League semi-final against Bayern Munich when the pair meet for Tuesday’s first leg.
Parc des Princes will play host to the opening meeting between the two European giants after PSG thrashed Liverpool 4-0 on aggregate in the last round and Bayern navigated past Real Madrid with a 6-4 win across two legs.
Vincent Kompany’s side, who sealed the Bundesliga title earlier in April, are the Opta supercomputer’s favourites of the pair to reach the final. They made it to the showpiece in 59.6% of data-led simulations, compared to PSG’s 40.4% chance.
After trailing Mainz 3-0 at half-time on Saturday, Kompany turned to his bench to seek a turnaround. Substitutes Harry Kane, Jamal Musiala and Michael Olise all scored as Bayern came back to win 4-3.
A much-changed PSG side eased to a 3-0 victory against Angers on Saturday, but they’ll reinstate their star-studded attackers for this game. Khvicha Kvaratskhelia has been directly involved in 13 goals in this season’s competition (8 goals, 5 assists), just one shy of the most by a PSG player in a single edition when Ousmane Dembélé managed 14 (8 goals, 6 assists) in 2024-25.
If deemed fit, Vitinha will expect to pull the strings further back, given his 1,370 completed passes in the 2025-26 edition are the most by a player in a single season on record (since 2003-04). The Portuguese midfielder has completed 100+ passes in eight different games this season, with only Barcelona’s Xavi in 2010-11 (9) doing so in more in a single campaign on record.
Defending champions PSG also have players who have now been there and done it. Should Marquinhos appear here, he will equal Roberto Carlos (120) for the most appearances by a Brazilian player in European Cup/Champions League history, and joint second-most by a South American player, only trailing Lionel Messi (163).
But the Brazilian defender will be in for a busy two legs. If Luis Díaz scores or assists in this game (six goals, three assists), it will be the first time that three Bayern players have reached 10+ goal involvements in a Champions League campaign (Harry Kane on 13 and Michael Olise on 10).
Talisman Kane’s 12 goals this season are also already the most by an English player in a European Cup/Champions League campaign. He has scored in each of his last four knockout stage games in the competition, and could equal the longest streak by a Bayern player in the Champions League (five by Robert Lewandowski between 2016 and 2018).
The star power at the top end of the pitch for each side goes a long way to explaining how this pair are the joint-top scorers in UEFA’s top competition this season (38 goals), as well as having the two highest goals-per-game averages (3.2 for Bayern and 2.7 for PSG).
Both sides also rank joint-first for goals scored following high turnovers, netting six times each after recovering the ball in advanced areas, and it comes as no surprise given Luis Enrique’s intent to press high and suffocate opponents.
PSG have applied high-intensity pressure to 58% of their opponent’s touches made in the middle third of the pitch in this European campaign, the highest percentage of any team.
Expect goals, goals, and more goals as well. PSG have scored 2+ times in each of their last eight knockout-stage games in the Champions League, the joint-longest run in the competition’s history. The only other team to do so in eight in a row was Barcelona between April 2015 and April 2016, who were also managed by Luis Enrique.
And a piece of history may await Luis Enrique, who could become the fastest manager to 50 victories in the Champions League (currently 49 wins in 76 games). The current record is held by Pep Guardiola, who achieved his 50th victory in his 80th game when Bayern beat Dinamo Zagreb in December 2015.
However, he will have to do something he has not done before. Kompany has won both of his Champions League meetings with Luis Enrique’s PSG (1-0 in November 2024 and 2-1 in November 2025). If Bayern win here, Kompany will have the most victories of any manager against the Spaniard in the competition (3).
In terms of team news, Luis Enrique will assess the fitness of Mendes (knock) and Vitinha (foot). Serge Gnabry and Sven Ulreich are Bayern’s only long-term absentees.
PSG vs Bayern Munich Head-to-Head
This pair are familiar with one another, given they have faced each other 15 times in the Champions League and nine times across the last nine campaigns. Since the start of the 2017-18 edition, only Real Madrid vs Manchester City has been played more times in the competition (13) than this fixture (9).
And Bayern have already won in the French capital this season, beating PSG 2-1 in the league phase in early November thanks to Díaz’s two first-half goals before he was sent off.
In fact, Bayern have won each of their last five games against the French giants in the Champions League. This is already the longest winning streak any team has achieved against PSG in major European competition (5).
PSG’s nine total defeats to Bayern are their most against any side in the competition. They have lost 60% of their Champions League games against them (9/15 – W6), with this also their highest loss percentage against any opponent they have faced 3+ times.
PSG vs Bayern Munich Prediction
PSG are the narrow favourites in the eyes of the Opta supercomputer, winning this first-leg clash in 41.1% of 10,000 pre-match simulations.
Bayern still hold a 34.6% chance of victory in the opening meeting, while the draw was rated at 24.3%.
PSG vs Bayern Munich Predicted Lineups
Paris Saint-Germain: Matvei Safonov, Achraf Hakimi, Marquinhos, Willian Pacho, Nuno Mendes, João Neves, Lucas Beraldo, Warren Zaïre-Emery, Désiré Doué, Ousmane Dembélé, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia
Head coach: Luis Enrique
Bayern Munich: Manuel Neuer, Josip Stanišić, Dayot Upamecano, Jonathan Tah, Alphonso Davies, Joshua Kimmich, Aleksandar Pavlović, Michael Olise, Jamal Musiala, Luis Díaz, Harry Kane
Head coach: Vincent Kompany
Opta Power Rankings
The Opta Power Rankings are a global team ranking system. They assign an ability score to over 15,000 domestic football teams. This score is on a scale between zero and 100, where zero is the worst-ranked team in the world and 100 is the best team in the world.
Ahead of kick-off on Tuesday night in Paris, here is the Opta Power Ranking for both sides.
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