Four takeaways from the Champions League: PSG gets lucky, Manchester City and Inter Milan misfire
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The first round of Champions League matches continued on Wednesday as PSG bemoaned a laborious performance, Man City and Inter played out a 0-0 draw and Shakhtar Donetsk showed national pride.
The first round of Champions League matches continued on Wednesday with two of the competition’s biggest names – Manchester City and Paris Saint-Germain – in action. But neither of those teams produced the most impressive performances of the night, one failing to score and the other needing a late piece of luck to salvage the three points. Here’s a roundup of the latest games across Europe. “This was worse than giving birth, with all due respect,” was PSG manager Luis Enrique’s bizarre analogy when asked about watching his side struggle against Girona and eventually emerging with a 1-0 win. It was only thanks to an error from Girona goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga that PSG, beginning its latest quest for a maiden Champions League title, claimed the narrow victory in the 90th minute. The Spanish side, making its first appearance in the competition, was moments away from securing a draw at the Parc des Princes until Gazzaniga let a deflected cross from Nuno Mendes slip out of his hands, through his legs, and into the back the net.