With an away win at Paris Saint-Germain on Tuesday evening, FC Bayern put themselves in a good starting position for the second leg of the Champions League round of 16. Kingsley Coman scored the only goal of the day on assist from Alphonso Davies. The Canadian was also successful himself after the game.
Saying goodbye to PSG opponents, the full-back asked for a shirt swap with none other than Lionel Messi. The seven-time world footballer and reigning world champion complied with this request despite the disappointment of the 0-1 defeat from Paris’ point of view. So there is a happy ending for Davies after around two and a half years. Because as early as 2020, Bayern’s winger wanted Messi’s shirt.
Still failed after 8:2
However, the Argentine was not as close as Davies had hoped after FC Barcelona’s historic 8-2 defeat in the quarter-finals of that Champions League season. “I think he was a bit pissed off,” Davies told the British broadcaster in August 2020 bt sports. During the corona pandemic, Messi may have simply been thinking about protection against infection, at least at the time UEFA had spoken out against swapping shirts. So now Davies has added a coveted Messi jersey to his collection. Whether he would have preferred Barca’s shirt number 10 to PSG’s still somewhat unfamiliar number 30 remains to be seen.
