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Champions League: New format brings high drama as PSG edge Atalanta
Aug 13, 2020
The hope was it would feel like a World Cup - seven games in 11 days. And day one of the Champions League mini-tournament in Lisbon delivered.
Two-legged ties are good, but are one-off games better?
Paris St-Germain scored two late goals, separated by 146 seconds, to come from behind and knock out Champions League debutants Atalanta.
Here's what the first, dramatic taste of the final eight - and the spectacle of one-game, knockout football - gave us.
Would Mbappe have even played?
Did the late comeback save Thomas Tuchel's job as PSG boss?
PSG were labouring up front with half an hour to go when Kylian Mbappe came on and changed the game.
The 21-year-old was initially expected to miss the match after spraining his ankle last month, with Thomas Tuchel saying it would take a "miracle".
As the game got closer their hopes grew and he was passed fit for the bench.
But the question is would they have risked him if this had not been an all-or-nothing tie?
BT Sport pundit Glenn Hoddle, the former England manager, thought not. "If there was a second leg they'd have held Mbappe back."
The ex-Stoke man the hero
Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting had not scored since facing amateur side Linas-Montlhery in the French Cup on 5 January
Right, we all had a good laugh when Paris St-Germain signed Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting on a free transfer from Stoke. And again when he was guilty of one of the worst misses of all time.
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