Club World Cup: Bavaria’s high-noon meeting with PSG as a transfer guide

Hot 33 degrees outside, pleasant 22 inside: at least the permanent topic of weather with extreme heat, high humidity and crashing thunderstorms will play no role in the quarter-final bang between FC Bayern and the Champions League hero from Paris Saint-Germain. And cannot serve as an excuse for an early World Cup KO.

The futuristic and air-conditioned Mercedes-Benz stage in Atlanta with its closable roof opens on Saturday at 12 noon local time (6 p.m. CEST/SAT.1. And DAZN) Ideal conditions for a large quarter-finals and a football spectacle. “I didn’t know that,” admitted Leon Goretzka when he learned from Miami’s heat after the 4-2 round of finishing success against Flamengo from Miami’s heat.

“That sounds good,” added the international with a laugh. His game in midfield is strongly shaped by the physique. “With the conditions here in the USA it feels like a completely different sport,” said Goretzka. In the end, club world champion becomes “who best packs the conditions”.

Cool duel under the stadium roof

However, the cool koool in the 1996 Olympic City should win the better football team. And Bayern want to be that, even if – which rarely occurs – against the PSG ensemble are outsiders. “It is against the best team in Europe,” said coach Vincent Kompany.

In November 2025, Bayern defeated 1-0 in the Ligaphase of the Champions League Paris in Munich. But what does that mean for reunion in America? Nothing. A renewed victory and the move into the semi-finals against Borussia Dortmund or Real Madrid, who conclude the Super-Saturday a few hours later (10:00 p.m./Sat.1 and DAZN) in the final stadium in front of the gates of New York, would be more than a respect for Bavaria and Kompany.

It would be a statement, in addition against Luis Enrique, the creator of the new PSG ensemble around clock vitinha and storm jewel Desiré Doué. The 20-year-old was the outstanding player at the incredible Parisian 5-0 triumph against Inter Milan in the final of Munich as a double goal scorer.

Paris has a lot of tailwind

“You have had an incredible season,” said Harry Kane. “This is a team that has a lot of tailwind,” said Goretzka. And yet the Munich professionals “have the feeling that we can beat anyone when we are at our top level”, as Kane confidently announced.

Top levels have all at the French top club. From Gianluigi Donnarumma in the goal to the attack series around Doué. In Bayern, the Captain Manuel Neuer in the goal in the previous World Cup can be attested to the offensive in the goal, Joshua Kimmich in midfield as well as wing striker Michael Olise and goal scorer Kane. Goretzka also sets an exclamation mark. And the new central defender duo Jonathan Tah and Dayot Upamecano is in the process of finding themselves.

Neuer’s goal and Müller’s announcement

Company’s trump card could be Jamal Musiala, who could start for the first time in the fifth tournament game. Company can not wait even longer. Sports board member Max Eberl already announced that “Jamal will definitely play an important role”. Musiala looked fresh and ready in training.

For Kompany and the squad planner around Eberl, the high-noon meeting with PSG will be directional in many ways. On the one hand, the winner collects another $ 21 million prize money, the equivalent of 17.9 million euros. Above all, however, the game becomes a personnel guide for the transfer summer. Is a nick Woltemade enough to come as a top shopping?

Which weak points reveals PSG in which Bayern positions? “We will knock everything in, invest everything,” promised Neuer. The 39-year-old wants to hold another World Cup trophy in his hands. And Thomas Müller also wants to go to New York on his Bayern departure tour for the final week. “We won’t be stopped,” announced the 35-year-old.