The result of the “crazy” match between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich is not real!

An exceptional football night, Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich presented, on Tuesday, one of the most exciting and crazy matches of the Champions League, in the first leg of the semi-finals.

Although the official result stopped at 5-4 in favor of the Parisian team at home and among its fans in the “Parc des Princes”, what happened on the field tells a completely different story, closer to a greater hypothetical result of 8-7, if the torrent of easy missed opportunities on both sides had been better exploited.

The match was not just a tactical confrontation between two schools, but rather quickly turned into an open offensive display, in which traditional defensive calculations were absent, and in which the desire to score took precedence at the expense of balance and discipline. From the first minute, it seemed clear that the two teams chose to take a risk, with a great attacking momentum and vast spaces behind the lines, making every attack carry with it the possibility of a goal.

The players of both teams took turns wasting certain opportunities, some of which were directly in front of the goal, and others hit the post or were wasted with an inaccurate final touch. If the attackers had been more focused, the result would have been completely out of the ordinary, and we might have witnessed one of the highest results in the history of the tournament.

This open style, which might please the fans, came at the expense of the football mind that is supposed to be present in such decisive roles in terms of caution and discipline. However, the lines between the defense and the midfield in both teams were far apart, and the defensive rebound was slow, which allowed for rapid and dangerous transitions in both directions to the point that the cameras no longer finished one attack until they started to capture another!

Football fun was achieved for the fans, but the match opened the door to questions about the logic of football. Will the most offensive player and the most capable of exploiting opportunities qualify in the return match, regardless of any defensive calculations? Or will the technical staff, led by the Belgian Kompany and the Spanish Luis Enrique, reconsider their calculations with the necessary defensive control and find a logical balance for the rush on the opponent’s field?

The return match, expected on May 6, will be an opportunity for more football fun, but will it be more logical and balanced, or are the fans promised a new record result?