Nine-man PSG beats Bayern to reach CWC semis

Désiré Doué scored successful the 78th minute, Ousmane Dembélé added a 2nd successful stoppage clip and Paris Saint-Germain sealed their spot successful the FIFA Club World Cup semifinals with a 2-0 quarterfinal triumph implicit Bayern Munich connected Saturday successful Atlanta.

Pairs Saint-Germain played the closing minutes with conscionable 9 players aft a brace of reddish cards and inactive added a extremity to seal the victory.

Referee Anthony Taylor dismissed Willian Pacho successful the 82nd infinitesimal for his unsafe situation connected Bayern's Thomas Müller, and sent disconnected Lucas Hernández successful the 2nd infinitesimal of second-half stoppage clip for an elbow successful the absorption of Raphaël Guerreiro.

But Doue and Dembele's archetypal goals of the tourney were capable to seal a gathering successful East Rutherford, New Jersey, connected Wednesday with the victor of Saturday's 2nd semifinal betwixt Real Madrid and Borussia Dortmund.

Bayern exits the tourney aft being held scoreless for the archetypal time, connected a time erstwhile they mislaid Josip Stanisic and Jamal Musiala to first-half injuries. Defeat means it was Bayern legend's Müller last crippled for the club, having antecedently announced his determination to permission astatine the extremity of his declaration this summer.

It was inactive 11-on-11 erstwhile Doue took João Neves' pass, created immoderate abstraction adjacent the borderline of the punishment area, past unleashed a left-footed onslaught that recovered the bottommost close country arsenic Bayern goalkeeper Manuel Neuer slipped portion trying to alteration direction.

Dembele doubled the vantage connected a stunning foray guardant contempt the numerical disadvantage and immoderate superb setup enactment by Achraf Hakimi, who bushed 3 defenders disconnected the dribble.

Hakimi past fed Dembele successful stride for a first-time debased decorativeness that near Neuer small chance.

Bayern thought they had a accidental to propulsion a precocious extremity backmost erstwhile Taylor whistled for a punishment adjacent aboriginal successful stoppage time, lone to reverse his determination pursuing a video review.

Musiala departed connected a stretcher astatine halftime aft suffering a gruesome ankle wounded pursuing a tangle for the shot with Gianluigi Donnarumma that did not amusement immoderate signs of sick intent.

Even Donnaruma was distraught aft seeing the grade of Musiala's injury, which came successful the last seconds of the archetypal half.

Twelve minutes earlier, Stanisic exited with an evident hamstring injury.

Donnaruma made a brace of exceptional first-half saves.

In the 27th minute, helium sprung to his close to parry Michael Olise's goal-bound effort from conscionable beyond the country of the 6-yard box. In the 41st, helium sprawled the other absorption to support Aleksandar Pavlovic's effort -- an intended aboriginal transverse that was inches successful beforehand of Musiala adjacent the punishment spot -- from bounding wrong the close post.

Neuer was besides called into enactment during the archetypal half, thwarting Khvicha Kvaratskhelia's effort from adjacent scope astatine the adjacent station with an outstretched limb successful the 32nd minute.

Four minutes into the 2nd half, helium dove near to contradict Bradley Barcola connected the break.

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