PARIS -- It's time to take Bayern Munich seriously as potential UEFA Champions League winners. Right now, the Bundesliga giants are the team to beat on the road to next May's final in Budapest, and they proved it on Tuesday in adversity in Paris.

If you can beat Paris Saint-Germain in the Parc des Princes, it marks you out as a team to be feared, but Bayern left the French capital with a 2-1 win despite having been reduced to 10 players before half-time thanks to double goalscorer Luis Díaz being sent off for a dangerous challenge on Achraf Hakimi .

Playing with a one-man disadvantage against the European champions -- and arguably the best team in the world, regardless of their FIFA Club World Cup final defeat against Chelsea in July -- Bayern flipped from a display of

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