PSG beat Istanbul Basaksehir (2-0) on Wednesday in Turkey, thanks to a brace for young Italian striker Moise Kean.
But the Parisians lost their superstar Neymar to injury, released after 20 minutes of play with a bandaged thigh.
Paris won ... but is not at the party.
PSG beat Basaksehir (2-0) on Wednesday in Istanbul in the Champions League, but lost their superstar Neymar, who came out injured early in the game.
The Parisians, very clumsy in the face of dangerous Turks against, found the flaw on a corner from Kylian Mbappé, pushed to the bottom by a header from Moise Kean (64th).
And the Italian, again, offered himself a double (79th), in the game this time, on a new pass from Mbappé, on the ground.
Kean, arrived at the end of the transfer market, perfectly controlled the ball and crucified goalkeeper Mert Günok to score ... his second consecutive double, after that inflicted on Dijon in the French Championship.
PSG, beaten at the opening by Manchester United (2-1) at the Parc des Princes, thus returns to its group before facing Leipzig twice, two meetings which will be crucial for qualifying in the round of 16.
Neymar came out with his thigh bandaged
But if PSG avoid the humiliation of a second poor performance against the theoretically weakest team in Group H, this success looks like a Pyrrhic victory, with the loss of Neymar in the first period.
The Brazilian came off the pitch shortly before the 20th minute holding his left thigh.
He returned for a few minutes again, his thigh bandaged, before resigning himself to leaving his place to Pablo Sarabia (26th).
This is already the third absence of the season for 'Ney', after the coronavirus at the start of the season and a suspension in Ligue 1 after his red card against Marseille.
And a hell of a tile for coach Thomas Tuchel, whose workforce undermined by absences (Marco Verratti, Mauro Icardi, Leandro Paredes, Julian Draxler ...) struggles to cope with the calendar, with a match every four days.