The French champions named five new signings in their starting line-up.
PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain got their Champions League campaign off to a winning start on Tuesday as a Kylian Mbappe penalty set them up for a 2-0 victory over Borussia Dortmund at the Parc des Princes.
The result immediately puts them in control of the group, after AC Milan and Newcastle United drew 0-0, and coach Luis Enrique will hope they can build on this performance when they visit the English side next in a fortnight.“I enjoyed practically everything about it, our intensity from the very beginning, the way we controlled the game for the first 75 minutes.”
They are still adapting to life without Jude Bellingham and coach Edin Terzic also dropped Sebastien Haller from the starting line-up, with the big striker enduring a difficult start to the campaign. There were five new signings in PSG’s line-up here, including Ousmane Dembele and Randal Kolo Muani in attack.Preferred to Goncalo Ramos, Kolo Muani was starting for the first time since joining from Eintracht Frankfurt.
However, they got the breakthrough just after half-time, thanks to a helping hand from Suele, and the referee. Mbappe stepped up to stroke in the penalty for his eighth goal this season, and the home side had done the hard part.“PSG naturally will say it was a handball and we will say it was not but in the end what annoys me the most is that we were just not aggressive enough.”
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