PSG edge through behind Dortmund as Zaïre-Emery hints at exciting future

And a very merry Christmas to you too, Luis Enrique. It was looking pretty hairy there for a while, as his Paris Saint-Germain side teetered on the brink of a group-stage humbling in the only competition that has ever really seemed to matter to them. Borussia Dortmund were ahead and so were Newcastle, and for all their vigour and enterprise the champions of France were doing their level best to push their coach towards the one door of the Paris advent calendar you really do not want to open.

Danger averted, just about, via a ghost of the present and a ghost of the future. Just as the cracker jokes were beginning to write themselves following Karim Adeyemi’s second-half goal, Kylian Mbappé and Warren Zaïre-Emery seized control of the game. Zaire-Emery’s spectacular equalising goal, created by Mbappé, was ultimately enough to scrape Paris through their group in second place, even if Milan’s late goal on Tyneside gave the closing minutes a sense of unbearable jeopardy.

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