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"In the end, I just had to push it in. I was almost ashamed of how happy I was after the goal because it was 99 per cent, of course, his goal. Maybe the future will bring games with fans again - this sport, or a stadium like this one here, simply deserves that”.Support our journalism — where text and pictures intermingle so seamlessly — and help us scale up your experience as the world changes around us. If he does it more often, it would be all the more beautiful. With two minutes of a tight first half remaining, … That was the main challenge.”While players were kept in team hotels and training facilities, isolated from the outside world, UEFA carried out regular testing throughout the tournament and together with the Europa League, UEFA Youth League and Women's Champions League, over 12,000 tests have been carried out.The Champions League final is supposed to be a festival of football though, a chance for fans to enjoy a weekend in a European city and celebrate their team's success while partying night and day.But not even in a personal invite from the Portuguese Prime Minister Antonio Costa could persuade more than a handful of supporters to travel to Lisbon for games they could not attend.“It is different, but today it is what we have to put up with in daily life, we have to adapt, but what is important is the love of the game that we have to preach and love for the team: Go Bayern!"

10 October, 2019 11:52 IST Bayern Munich veteran Thomas Muller - Bongarts . Sacha Pisani . More than 90 minutes after the final whistle had blown on the 1-0 victory, Kimmich sat in the centre circle, in front of 65,000 empty seats at the Estadio da Luz, banging on a drum. "The showpiece event could yet be an all-German affair on August 23, with The Germany international has given full credit to his team-mate for the Bundesliga outfit's fifth goal against the Spanish club ‘Barcelona board look like they want to sell Messi’Transfer LIVE: Man City preparing to make Messi offer Your contribution is vital to our brand of uninfluenced, boots-on-the-ground reportage that’s worth your while.

Der freie Autor Jan Mendelin begleitet Joshua Kimmich seit vielen Jahren mit der Kamera. There was something appropriate in the way that Bayern Munich's Joshua Kimmich celebrated his team's Champions League triumph over Paris St Germain on Sunday.More than 90 minutes after the final whistle had blown on the 1-0 victory, Kimmich sat in the centre circle, in front of 65,000 empty seats at the Estadio da Luz, banging on a drum.It was not quite full-on social distancing - the full-back was joined in the middle of the field by team-mates Serge Gnabry and David Alaba - but it was poignant nonetheless.This has been a Champions League season that was stopped, like so many aspects of life, in March by the COVID-19 pandemic but which was completed in the Portuguese capital, albeit in highly unusual circumstances.Seven games in 11 days were played in two venues in Lisbon, culminating in Sunday's final, but fans were not allowed into the stadiums with those present limited to a handful of team officials, security and medical staff and media.Somehow, despite the alien surrounds and the lack of anything resembling a football atmosphere, the players produced some memorable games with Bayern deservedly crowned European champion.“It has been an extreme challenge for us,” said Aleksander Ceferin, president of European soccer's governing body UEFA before Sunday's final.“The most challenging was everything connected to health and this virus which is spreading all around the world,” he said. Joshua Kimmich was asked about Thomas Muller's future at Bayern Munich following Germany's draw with Argentina on Wednesday. There was something appropriate in the way that Bayern Munich's Joshua Kimmich celebrated his team's Champions League triumph over Paris St Germain on Sunday. "Flick added on the 19-year-old defender's remarkable surge into the box: "Simply beautiful. The Bayern Munich midfielder beat Dortmund keeper Burki with a delightful 20-yard chip to earn a 1-0 win in Tuesday's Klassiker clash at Signal Iduna Park. World-class. “We try to control everybody, to be locked, to be separated from the rest of the world, but it is a huge task. 10 October, 2019 11:52 IST Bayern Munich star Joshua Kimmich understands team-mate Thomas Muller's frustrations as he weighs up his future with the … Bayern Munich's Joshua Kimmich has admitted to being "almost ashamed" after scoring from Alphonso Davies' incredible assist in the Champions League semi-finals. Joshua Kimmich was one of the standout performers of the night as he slotted home once in the second half after a skillful display from defender Alphonso Davies. Portrait shoot at the FC Bayern facilities in Munich with team member Joshua Kimmich on his 22nd birthday for London-based FourFourTwo magazine. It was not quite full-on social distancing …

Sacha Pisani . Clickbait sensationalism is not for us, but editorial independence is — we owe it to you.Get your daily dose of Sportstar with handpicked stories delivered right to your inbox!Get your daily dose of Sportstar with handpicked stories delivered right to your inbox!To continue enjoying Sportstar, you can turn off your adblocker or subscribe to Sportstar Plus. Besides the goal, Kimmich also played an important role in curbing the Barcelona attack, thus inviting appreciation from Toni Kroos. In Zusammenarbeit mit ZDF-Reporter Lars Ruthemann ist daraus eine zweiteilige Reportage entstanden. Hansi Flick's side booked their place in the last four of this season's competition by beating Bayern found themselves 4-1 up with only 31 minutes on the clock at Estadio da Luz, as a Thomas Muller brace and goals from Ivan Perisic and Serge Gnabry left Barca, who scored an early equaliser via David Alaba's unfortunate own goal, on the brink of elimination.A superb Luis Suarez effort ten minutes into the second half gave the Blaugrana hope, which was cruelly dashed moments later when Kimmich tapped in from close range following a scintillating Davies run down the left-wing.The Canadian full-back skipped past Arturo Vidal before easily beating Nelson Semedo with a combination of pace and guile, and laid the ball on a platter for his colleague to restore Bayern's three-goal advantage.A Robert Lewandowski header and a late double from Barca loanee Philippe Coutinho against his parent club rounded off the scoring, as the German champions set up a last-four showdown against either When asked to discuss Davies' contribution to Bayern's fifth goal, Kimmich told reporters post-match: "Unbelievable.