It was fitting that on Kylian Mbappe’s Paris Saint-Germain debut, the capital side were wearing gold, for everything the teenager seems to touch seems to go that way.
If there were any fears that the weight of a €180 million price tag might weigh the young France international striker down, those were abolished at Metz’s Stade Saint-Symphorien as he struck what proved to be the winning goal on what was a testing occasion for PSG.
Edinson Cavani opened the scoring in the first half after being teed up by Neymar but Emmanuel Riviere’s unlikely equaliser before the break raised doubts for the visitors that were not answered until their new striker took to the fore after the interval.
Indeed, the former Newcastle man should have scored again early in the second half but after an astonishing error from Alphonse Areola, he somehow upstaged the keeper with an even more astounding miss.
Furthermore there will be doubts raised over the legitimacy of Benoit Assou-Ekotto’s red card, which led to the floodgates opening and the capital side running out winners with a flattering 5-1 scoreline.
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