Thanks to match winner Kylian Mbappe and despite a missed penalty by his superstar Lionel Messi, the star ensemble from Paris St. Germain can continue to dream of the first triumph in the Champions League.
In the last 16 of the giants against Real Madrid, after the 1-0 (1-0) in the first leg on their own pitch, the French have all the trumps in hand for the second leg on March 9th.
England's champions Manchester City can plan completely carefree for the round of the top eight.
Star coach Pep Guardiola's team offered a show of power in the 5-0 (4-0) win at Sporting Lisbon.
Mbappe scored the late winner for the French Ligue 1 leaders in Paris in the final minute of added time.
33 minutes earlier, Messi's penalty was denied by Madrid goalkeeper Thibault Courtois.
Mbappe was fouled by Dani Carvajal.
Former world champion Julian Draxler and national player Thilo Kehrer only experienced the success of the comeback of Brazilian superstar Neymar on the PSG bench.
Ex-national player Tonio Kross was hardly able to set any accents in Real's team.
Manchester was a size too big for Sporting, who had held their own in the preliminary round against Bundesliga club Borussia Dortmund.
Riyad Mahrez (7th), Bernardo Silva (17th, 44th) and Phil Foden (32nd) made everything clear before the break.
After the change, Raheem Sterling (58th) followed up shortly before national player Ilkay Gündogan was substituted on.
The German champions Bayern Munich is challenged on Wednesday.
Coach Julian Nagelsmann's team, which was the only team from the Bundesliga quartet that started to survive the preliminary round, has to play for Austrian title holders RB Salzburg.
At the same time, the English top club FC Liverpool and his German team manager Jürgen Klopp are guests at Italy's champions Inter Milan.
For the English defending champion and newly crowned club world champion FC Chelsea and his German coach Thomas Tuchel, the first round of 16 duel with the French representative OSC Lille is not on the agenda until next Tuesday.