[Sport] Paris Saint-Germain looks to upset European football's established order with victory over Bayern Munich

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Few people will have bigger headaches going into this weekend than Bayern Munich and Paris Saint-Germain's defenders.

How do you stop Robert Lewandowski -- or "LewanGOALski," as Thomas Mueller referred to him when cracking his best dad joke -- and Serge Gnabry? How do you stop Neymar, Kylian Mbappe, Mauro Icardi and Angel Di Maria?

They are questions that no team in the Champions League has found an answer to so far this season.

Polish striker Lewandowski is having one of the greatest individual seasons in the competition's history and sits just two goals behind Cristiano Ronaldo's record haul of 17 in a single campaign.

Alongside him is Gnabry, who has developed from Arsenal and West Brom outcast into one of the finest attacking talents in Europe. The duo are now the most prolific in a single season in Champions League history.

Two more goals for Gnabry and another for Lewandowski in the 3-0 semifinal win over Lyon took their combined total to 24 for this season's competition, surpassing the previous record of 23 set by Real Madrid pair Ronaldo and Gareth Bale in 2013-14.

For all of Bayern's domestic dominance in Germany -- it has now won eight consecutive Bundesliga titles -- success in Europe has been hard to come by since its last Champions League triumph in 2013.

Pep Guardiola was hired just after that win but failed to replicate his European success at Barcelona, falling at the semifinal stage in each of his three seasons in Bavaria.

Making it past the last four had become something of a hoodoo for Bayern Munich; heading into its match against Lyon, the Germans had lost in each of its last four Champions League semifinals.

At the final whistle on Wednesday you could see what reaching the final meant to this group of players, many of whom have experienced seven years of Champions League disappointment together.

"It's something special that we have achieved again today," goalkeeper Manuel Neuer said after the semifinal win against Lyon.

"You could see that we had to put everything into it. Now we're looking forward to the final against PSG. We've fought and worked for it for so long and we want to win this final."

'Here to make history'

Fortunately for PSG, it is one of the few clubs in Europe that can match -- or arguably even surpass -- Bayern Munich's attacking talent.

Since Qatar Sports Investments bought the Parisian club in 2011, winning the Champions League has become nothing short of an obsession. More than one billion dollars has been spent on the playing squad, with the ambition of propelling PSG to a place among the continent's elite clubs.

Those in Paris will certainly feel that is already the case, even without a Champions League trophy to show for its efforts. Whether the feeling is mutual around the rest of Europe's top table is another matter entirely.

PSG has been threatening to upset the established order for quite some time, but has until now managed to spectacularly collapse when on the brink of doing so.

For all the millions spent and superstar talent purchased, it wasn't enough to prevent two stunning capitulations; one against Barcelona in 2017 and again against Manchester United last season.

The memory of that incredible Champions League exit against Barcelona -- in which PSG surrendered a 4-0 first-leg lead -- was considered so painful that many said PSG would never recover from it.