Watching PSG-Bayern thriller from stands 'no fun' for suspended coach Kompany

PARIS (AP) — Vincent Kompany might have been the only spectator in the Parc des Princes who didn't enjoy watching the thrilling Champions League semifinal game between his Bayern Munich team and Paris Saint-Germain.

Barred from the touchline as he served a one-game suspension, Kompany found it hard to be further from the action as he sat with staff in the media seats wearing an earpiece.

“It’s no fun," Kompany told Prime Video. “If it never happens again, I'll be satisfied.”

The twists and turns of PSG's 5-4 first-leg win were clear to see on Kompany's face. With assistant Aaron Danks taking charge on the touchline, Kompany was sharing smiles and handshakes with staff in the first half, but was stone-faced as his team slumped to 5-2 down before charging back into the contest.

“I can’t take decisions 80 meters (262 feet) away.” Kompany said. “But I appreciated the way the players responded, from high up in the stands.”

Kompany's PSG counterpart Luis Enrique had a different view from the sideline, proclaiming it the best game he's ever coached.

In the past, Luis Enrique has occasionally taken a seat in the stands of his own free will to get a tactical view of the game, but Kompany wasn't convinced.

“I don't know why. I wouldn't do that,” the Belgian coach said.

With Kompany out of “the vicinity of the field of play or the team bench" as UEFA rules demand, and also barred from the locker room, Danks took charge of a game for the first time since a two-game interim stint at Aston Villa in 2022.

Danks is Bayern's set-piece specialist but his team still managed to concede a simple headed goal from a corner when Joao Neves evaded his marker Jamal Musiala to put PSG 2-1 up. Dayot Upamecano's header at a free kick for Bayern's third goal was more in line with expectations.

With his one-game suspension for three yellow cards served, Kompany will be back in his technical area for the second leg next Wednesday and wants an even louder atmosphere than for the rousing quarterfinal win over Real Madrid.

“There was such fire against Madrid. We need no less than that, we need even more, and that's all I can ask for,” he told Prime Video. “I'd go to the stadium for a game like that, but not to be quiet.”

Ellingworth reported from Duesseldorf, Germany.

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Bayern Munich's coach Vincent Kompany attends a team training session ahead of a Champions League semi-final, first leg soccer match against Paris Saint-Germain, in Munich, Germany, Monday, April 27, 2026. (Sven Hoppe/dpa via AP)

Bayern's Luis Diaz, center right, and PSG's Vitinha embrace at the end of a Champions League semifinal, first leg, soccer match between Paris Saint-Germain and Bayern Munich in Paris, Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (AP Photo/Aurelien Morissard)

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — The spacecraft that flew four astronauts around the moon is back where its record-breaking journey began.

NASA’s Artemis II capsule returned to Florida’s Kennedy Space Center on Tuesday, almost a month after blasting off on humanity’s first lunar trip in more than a half-century.

Following its splashdown in the Pacific on April 10, the Orion capsule was trucked from San Diego to Cape Canaveral. Engineers will examine the capsule’s heat shield in more detail along with everything else in preparation for next year's Artemis III docking demo in orbit around Earth. The capsule's electronic boxes will be removed and recycled, along with research equipment.

The capsule, dubbed Integrity by its U.S.-Canadian crew, carried astronauts deeper into space than humans have ever traveled before. Aside from a finicky toilet, the capsule appeared to perform well during the nearly 10-day voyage, according to NASA.

Commander Reid Wiseman, pilot Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Canada's Jeremy Hansen are finally getting a break after medical exams and other tests that followed their mission.

“Been waiting for this moment,” Wiseman said via X late last week, posting a video of himself relaxing on the beach. “There is a lot in my head that I must process and very little has to do with leaving the planet. Today is my first step. I have never in my life felt peace like this.”

Until Artemis II, astronauts had not flown to the moon since Apollo 17 in 1972.

Artemis III will feature a fresh capsule and crew. They will remain in orbit around Earth for docking exercises with lunar landers still in development by SpaceX and Blue Origin. That will set the stage for a moon landing by two new astronauts as early as 2028.

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This photo provided by NASA shows the Orion spacecraft arriving at the Kennedy Space Center Multi Payload Processing Facility in Merritt Island, Fla., Tuesday, April 28, 2026. (Tiffany Fairley/NASA via AP)

This photo provided by the U.S. Navy shows the Orion spacecraft's heat shield underwater after Artemis II splashed down Friday, April 10, 2026. (U.S. Navy via AP

In this photo provided by NASA, Artemis II mission specialist and NASA astronaut Christina Koch hugs the Orion spacecraft aboard the USS John P. Murtha, Saturday, April 11, 2026, off the coast of California. (Bill Ingalls/NASA via AP)