Stats & Facts: A look back at the win over Bayern!
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Check out all the key facts and figures from Paris Saint-Germain's 5-4 victory over Bayern Munich in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-finals on Tuesday 28 April 2026.
What a match! The Parisians and the Bavarians played out an enthralling encounter at the Parc des Princes, but it was Les Rouge et Bleu who prevailed after 90 minutes of rare intensity (5-4). This was the capital club's fourth victory in the Champions League semi-finals (after Leipzig in 2020 and the two wins over Arsenal in 2025), which is more than all the other French clubs combined (one for Nantes and two for Monaco).
Ahead of what promises to be a thrilling return leg at the home of a Bayern side out to hit back, our players nevertheless have a narrow lead. This is the eighth win in the first leg of a Champions League knockout tie for the Parisians since Luis Enrique took over in 2023. The capital club have never been knocked out of the competition under the Spanish coach.
In the 21st century, the only Champions League knockout match to produce more goals than Paris-Bayern was the quarter-final between Bayern Munich and FC Barcelona (8-2). In fact, you have to go back as far as 1960, when Eintracht Frankfurt faced Glasgow Rangers (6-3), to see such a festival of goals at the semi-final stage, a sign of the fabulous fight the two sides put on at the Parc.
With 43 goals scored since the start of this European campaign, the capital club are approaching the all-time record held by Barcelona (45 in 1999/2000). Les Rouge et Bleu delighted their fans once again, scoring five goals for the fourth time this season in the Champions League, a performance equalled only by Liverpool in 2017-2018. Bayern had not conceded so many goals in the competition since a semi-final against Ajax in 1995 (2-5).
Our Georgian warrior put in another fine performance in the most prestigious of competitions, taking his Champions League goal tally to ten for the season. Since the Round of 16 began, the only player from Europe's top 5 leagues to have scored as many goals in all competitions is Harry Kane (9). Kvaratskhelia is the second player to pass the ten goals mark in a campaign with Paris, after Zlatan Ibrahimovic (in 2013-2014), and has now scored in every round since the start of the season.
Ousmane Dembélé also scored twice to live up to his Ballon d'Or status. Never before has a player from the French capital been involved in so many goals in the knockout phase of the Champions League (11 goals and seven assists in three seasons). The French international once again led his side to victory, also providing the decisive assist for Joao Neves... Paris will need all their attacking talents if they are to win the return leg at the Allianz Arena on Wednesday.
