Paris Saint-Germain were smashed out of the Champions League at the last-16 stage for the second year in a row after losing 3-0 on aggregate to Bayern Munich. Bayern secured their place in the quarter-finals, while Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe are out of European contest this season.
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting mopped home just after the hour mark for the hosts against his former club, with substitute Serge Gnabry adding the shine to a proficient show late on.
PSG have now been eliminated from the competition at this stage in five of their earlier seven campaigns and this implied another sad failure for the Ligue 1 leaders and their tense head coach Christophe Galtier.
The Parisians not only failed to score over two legs but were saved the humiliation of a four or five-goal aggregate defeat by a VAR judgment and offside flag ruling out an earlier Choupo-Moting header and Sadio Mane’s stoppage-time effort.
Six-time European champions Bayern had begun the evening nervously safeguarding a one-goal first-leg lead and guarding against the dual threat posed by Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi.
The draw for the last eight of the competition takes place on 17 March in Nyon, Switzerland.
Next up, Bayern host FC Augsburg in the Bundesliga on Saturday while PSG visit Brest in Ligue 1.
