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Lionel Messi finally arrived at Parc des Princes, and Manchester City left with nothing to show for 18 shots.

Paris Saint-Germain beat Manchester City 2-0 on September 28, 2021, in Matchday 2 of UEFA Champions League Group A, and CBS Sports Golazo’s extended highlights capture exactly how it happened: a set-piece-perfect opener from Idrissa Gueye, a barrage of missed City chances, and a 74th-minute Messi strike that made his PSG debut goal count for something. Mauricio Pochettino’s side snapped a four-match winless run in the competition, while Pep Guardiola’s City suffered a result they hadn’t seen in this competition in years.

• Idrissa Gueye opened the scoring in the 8th minute, curling a right-footed shot into the top corner after buildup involving Neymar and Kylian Mbappé.
• Manchester City hit the woodwork twice in one sequence — Raheem Sterling’s header off the crossbar, then Bernardo Silva smashing the rebound off the bar from three yards out.
• Lionel Messi scored his first PSG goal in the 74th minute, driving from midfield, combining with Mbappé, and curling a first-time finish past Ederson.

Gueye Breaks the Deadlock Early

PSG didn’t wait long to make their move. In the 8th minute, Neymar and Mbappé combined to spring Gueye into space, and the Senegalese midfielder didn’t hesitate, driving a right-footed effort into the top corner to put the hosts in front inside the first ten minutes. It set the tone for a first half in which PSG controlled the tempo despite City doing most of the shooting.

City’s Missed Chances Pile Up

Manchester City finished the night with somewhere between 16 and 18 shots, and the most damning sequence came midway through the first half. Sterling’s header cannoned off the crossbar, and before anyone in blue could react, Bernardo Silva pounced on the rebound from just three yards and somehow put it off the bar again. It was the kind of double miss that decides these group-stage nights, and City never got the goal their volume of chances suggested they deserved.

Donnarumma’s Champions League Debut

Standing behind that City pressure was Gianluigi Donnarumma, making his Champions League debut in PSG’s goal. He turned away dangerous attempts from Sterling, Kevin De Bruyne, and Rúben Dias, and his shot-stopping kept the door shut long enough for PSG’s front line to add the insurance they needed. Extended highlights packages like this one, similar in spirit to the full-game breakdowns CBS and other outlets have run for marquee matchups — think the level of detail given to a CFP National Championship broadcast — make clear how much of this result rested on Donnarumma’s saves rather than PSG’s attacking numbers alone.

Messi’s First Goal for PSG

The moment everyone in Paris had been waiting for arrived in the 74th minute. Messi picked the ball up near the halfway line, drove forward himself, played a sharp one-two with Mbappé at the edge of the box, and curled a first-time strike past Ederson into the top right corner for his first goal in a PSG shirt.

Messi’s driving run from midfield, into a one-two with Mbappé, into a curled finish past Ederson — his first goal for PSG arrived exactly when the club needed it, in the 74th minute of a Champions League night against Manchester City.

Impacts of the Final Results

The win moved PSG to the top of Group A and ended a four-match winless run in the competition under Pochettino. For City, it was the other side of the ledger: their first Champions League group-stage defeat since September 2018, snapping an 18-game unbeaten run in the group phase. Highlights reels covering results like this one tend to circulate widely in the days after — the kind of clip that ends up in the mix on any trending sports conversation for the rest of the week.

Messi had gone four matches into his PSG career without a goal before that curler past Ederson, and Guardiola’s City — who had gone unbeaten through 18 straight Champions League group games — now had to regroup with Club Brugge and RB Leipzig still left on the Group A schedule.