Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain clash in the second leg of their round of 16 UEFA Champions League tie on Wednesday night at the Allianz Arena, Munich. We preview the match and look at the prediction via the Opta supercomputer.

  Bayern Munich vs PSG: The Quick Hits.

  Bayern Munich are the favourites for this UCL match with the Opta supercomputer (50.3%) and expected to win both legs against  Messi looking to become just the second player to score 50 UEFA Champions League knockout stage  Saint-Germain have already lost more competitive matches in 2023 (five) than they did in 2022 (four).

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Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain will meet for the 13th time in the UEFA Champions League, this time with PSG needing to turn around a 1-0 first-leg defeat at home in order to make it through to the quarter-finals. The reigning Ligue 1 champions should know their opposition well, with this meeting making Bayern their most frequent opponents in the competition.

Watch the Bayern Munich match against Paris Saint-Germain: today, 8/3/2023, kora

  Bayern’s victory in Paris on 14 February has given them a big advantage coming into this second leg at home. They've been eliminated just twice on the 22 previous occasions that they've won the first leg of a UCL knockout tie, going out to Real Madrid  quarter-final) and Inter Milan  round of 16) . PSG’s loss last month was just the sixth time they’ve been defeated in the first leg of a UEFA Champions League in 19 knockout ties. They’ve progressed just once from this position, and that happened at this stage of the tournament against Borussia Dortmund in .

  Previous Meeting

  Paris Saint-Germain 0-1 Bayern Munich – 14 February 2023 (UEFA Champions League)

  It was Bundesliga beats Ligue 1 in the battle of the reigning league champions on Valentine’s Day, with Bayern Munich enjoying a 1-0 win over Christophe Galtier’s PSG at Parc des Princes in the first leg of this last 16 UCL tie.

Watch the Bayern Munich match against Paris Saint-Germain: today, 8/3/2023, kora

  Kingsley Coman’s 53rd-minute strike was the difference, with the Frenchman volleying home under Gianluigi Donnarumma’s body. Paris Saint-Germain thought they’d rescued a draw with eight minutes remaining, but VAR ruled out Kylian Mbappé’s strike for offside.

  Coman – who also scored the winner in the  UCL final for Bayern against PSG – has now played 50 games in the competition, with the first leg seeing him end on the winning team for the 39th occasion. This is the most wins by a player in their opening 50 UCL matches.

  Paris Saint-Germain’s first shot of the game didn’t come until stoppage time in the first half, which was their longest wait for a shot in recorded history within a game in the competition (108 games since .

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  Aged 16 years and 343 days, Paris Saint-Germain's Warren Zaïre-Emery was the youngest player to start a UEFA Champions League knockout match, breaking the previous record set by Bojan in April 2008 for Barcelona vs FC Schalke 04 (17 years, 217 days ). He started alongside Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos for PSG, both of whom made their UEFA Champions League debuts before he was born.

  Benjamin Pavard was sent off in injury time for Bayern Munich and will miss this game through suspension.

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  Paris Saint-Germain have lost five games of their 14 matches in all competitions in 2023, one more than they lost in the entirety of 2022 (four in 46 games). Their fifth loss came in the first-leg defeat to Bayern, with three successive Ligue 1 victories since then: 4-3 against Lille, 3-0 at Marseille and 4-2 at home to Nantes.

  They have lost half of their eight competitive away matches in 2023 so far, falling to Lens, Rennes and Monaco in Ligue 1 in addition to a Coupe de France defeat in Marseille kora ive.

  After suffering a shock 3-2 defeat to Borussia Mönchengladbach on 18 February – four days after their UCL win over PSG – Bayern Munich have bounced back with back-to-back league wins over Union Berlin and VfB Stuttgart.