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With a 2-1 victory over Paris Saint-Germain away from home thanks to Luis Diaz’s two goals and red card, Bayern Munich have won 16 of their 16 games this season, underlining their status as early UEFA Champions League favorites.

On the stroke of half-time, the Colombian winger struck twice on Tuesday before being sent off for a violent tackle against Achraf Hakimi.

After the break, PSG dominated possession but failed to make it count, falling to their first defeat in the competition since last season’s quarterfinal second leg defeat Aston Villa.

With the early replacement of Hakimi and Ousmane Dembele, Bayern remained top of the 36-team league with a maximum of 12 points, PSG in third, three points adrift, and with more injury concerns.

The most important thing I hope isn’t too bad for Hakimi. Bayern coach Vincent Kompany stated at a press conference that we had this experience with [Jamal] Musiala] at the Club World Cup in the United States.

“I always tell players to believe what there is when there is some hype.” We’ve won 16, but it’s going to be back to zero starting tomorrow. Today, no one has captured the Champions League.

The PSG counterpart, Luis Enrique, echoed that sentiment, saying, “Today’s standings are meaningless. February, March, April, and May are all important.

“It’s always difficult to lose at home,” he said. We must be more assertive and creative. A well-organized team, especially physically, was on hand. Marquinhos, the PSG captain, said, “We couldn’t get our game going.”

“This match has some positives to take away,” he said. The team continues to be ambitious, but we must improve. They were more superior to us. We were in control in the second half, but it came after the red card.

Ten-man Bayern are on pace for a dramatic victory.

Dembele made his Champions League debut, but Lee Kang-in took the place of him after 25 minutes.

PSG, who had defeated Bayern 2-0 in the Club World Cup quarterfinals in July, came out strong with their signature high pressing, but Lucas Chevalier’s effort was denied by Diaz in the fourth minute.

Dembele initially thought he had leveled midway through the half, but PSG struggled and looked unusually fragile at the back, where his goal was later ruled out for offside.

Bradley Barcola, who had a precise long ball from Fabian Ruiz, was denied by Manuel Neuer moments later in a spectacular save.

After Serge Gnabry hit the post, Diaz slammed on a sleepy Marquinhos to steal the ball and fire a second home in the 32nd minute.

Diaz abruptly missed half-time when he was shown a straight red card for a brutal lunge at Hakimi, who had a rumored ankle injury.

PSG had a number of long-range possession opportunities in the second half, but they didn’t have a cutting edge until the 74th minute when substitute Neves cut the deficit with a spectacular scissor kick from Lee’s cross.

Neves almost equalized a few minutes later with a header as PSG’s pressure increased. Bayern stayed put despite the hosts’ late ruckus.

In what was seen as a significant victory for Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom, early results from Tuesday’s vote showed that voters had a two-to-one margin to support Proposition 50, increasing his party’s chances of taking control of the US Congress in the upcoming election and thus halting Trump’s agenda.

Democrats could win up to five additional House seats with the passage of the legislation, compared to the five that Texas Republicans are considering replacing after Trump pressured them to redraw their own maps. Republicans anticipate that new maps in Ohio and Missouri will add one seat, possibly two, to the mix.

Trump yelled out a furious response to Newsom’s protest. On Tuesday, he wrote on his social media platform Truth Social that the entire process, especially the Voting itself, is a GIANT SCAM.

Newsom rebuffed his criticism, calling the Republican response the “ramblings of an old man who knows he’s about to LOSE,” saying that he is putting his claim to the presidency of the Democratic Party ahead of the 2028 presidential election on his willingness to stand up to Trump. He claimed that voters had “sent a powerful message” to Trump in X after the victory.

California delivered Donald Trump a powerful message this evening. Our democracy will be fought for. And we’ll triumph. pic. twitter.com/tEcPlxVbi4

The elections of 2026, 2028, and 2030 will use the new district boundaries. The electoral map is based on the population there and is typically created by an independent commission following a national census that is conducted every ten years. Most parties in power actually rejigger the boundaries.

In some cases, the recast districts combine rural, traditionally conservative areas of northern California with Marin County, a renownedly liberal coastal stronghold across the Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco.

The proposal was intended to counteract Trump’s efforts to erode democracy, according to Newsom, who had attempted to nationalize the campaign. An angry Trump was depicted in a television campaign throwing French fries at the TV as he watched the results.

Barack Obama, the former president, backed the decision. Republicans want to rig the next election by snub a seat in Congress, according to one advertisement. You can stifle Republican sentiment.

Critics claimed that a wrong does not equal a right. Even if Californians have reservations about Trump’s actions in Republican-led states, they urged Californians to reject what they perceive as a Democratic power grab.

Arnold Schwarzenegger, the former Republican governor who had overseen the establishment of the independent commission, was one of the most well-known critics.