Mbappe scored the first goal to give win to PSG!
PSG! 2-1 Kylian Mbappe scores twice in the first half to give Juventus the victory in their decisive Champions League match,
despite Weston McKennie‘s outstanding late header making it a tight finish.
After five minutes,
Mbappe scored the first goal after a lofted cross from Neymar.
Juve got a goal back in the 53rd minute thanks to a PSG forward’s second goal after a lovely one-two with Hakim McKennie.
Paris St. Germain opened their Champions League season by defeating Juventus 2-1 at home on Tuesday,
marking their first victory against the Italian team. Kylian Mbappe performed the role of major tormentor.
Mbappe scored two goals in the first half—one spectacular and one more—before Weston McKennie,
a substitute,
cut the deficit in half as the French champions’ level dropped.
Gianluigi Donnarumma made three excellent stops to offset a mistake for the visitors’ goal,
preventing Juve from equalising and assuring PSG defeated
the Italian team for the first time in nine meetings after losing the previous six.
In PSG’s opening Champions League group stage match,
Kylian Mbappe’s spectacular first-half double was just enough to secure all three points as the Parisians held off a second-half Juventus comeback attempt.
The Italian team struggled for the first 45 minutes as Mbappe and Neymar
repeatedly broke past their defence but were unable to score Gianluigi Donnarumma’s goal. But Juve’s substitution of Weston McKennie
during halftime changed the outcome and ignited a second-half charge.
Early in the second half,
McKennie got one back for Juventus by rising high to meet a corner, but it was all they would manage as Donnarumma stood strong on numerous occasions.
In the second half, both teams had pivotal opportunities to shift momentum in their favour, but Donnarumma and Mattia Perin,
who was on the other side, continued to shine.
In the Champions League roundup,
Jude Bellingham scores for Dortmund and Kylian Mbappe propels PSG past Juventus.
On the first night of the Champions League,
Kylian Mbappe scored twice as PSG defeated Juventus 2-1; Jude Bellingham scored as Borussia Dortmund defeated FC Copenhagen 3-0;
and in Chelsea’s group, AC Milan could only draw against RB Salzburg.
Paris Saint-Germain defeated Juventus 2-1 to begin their most recent campaign for Champions League glory behind two goals from Kylian Mbappe.
The France international scored his team’s first goal after latching onto Neymar’s through ball in just five minutes,
and he doubled his tally with just 22 remaining.
Borussia Dortmund defeated FC Copenhagen 3-0
at home to advance to the Manchester City group stage with a goal from England international Jude Bellingham.
Before Bellingham secured the victory with seven minutes left in the first half,
Dortmund had been given the lead by goals from Marco Reus and Raphael Guerreiro.
Paris Saint-Germain defeated Juventus 2-1 in their Champions League opening thanks to a spectacular Kylian Mbappe brace.