Well, the other semifinal did not go nearly so well for the French club involved as it did with the first semifinal.
Indeed, PSG won that first one handily, but Bayern Munich wound up convincingly beating L'Olympique Lyonnais, 3-0, to reach the Champions League Final, where they will now meet PSG.
My brother described the match pretty well in the comments section of my early post covering the first semifinal, and so I took the liberty of simply copying and pasting his description of the game.
This is what happened, in his words:
L'Olympique Lyonnais lost to Bayern Munich, 3-0. They actually dominated most of the first 15 or so minutes and created a number of potentially dangerous scoring chances, but weren't able to capitalize on any of them. Then Bayern responded by opening up the scoring against the run of play with a Serge Gnabry goal in the 18th minute. They dominated the rest of the half, with Gnabry doubling his tally and Bayern's lead in the 33rd minute. Lyon showed some signs of life in the second half, nearly reducing Bayern's lead at some points, without ever quite managing to find the back of the net. Robert Lewandowski scored the proverbial "nail in the coffin" goal in the 88th minute. Lyon had an amazing run, even if it obviously ended on an anticlimactic note for them, which is compounded by the fact that they won't be taking part in either of the two European Cups next season. (Due to their uncharacteristically low 7th place finish in Ligue 1, they would have had to not only beat Bayern but then beat PSG in the final in order to avoid that.)
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