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Barcelona boss Luis Enrique: PSG worthy victors

PSG have stunned Barcelona winning 3-2 in their Champions League encounter last night. In a true heavyweight contest at the Parc des Princes, David Luiz (10) bundled home to open the scoring, but the hosts' first lead of the night lasted all of 60 seconds as Lionel Messi capped off a superb move to equalise with Barca's 500th Champions League goal.

Marco Verratti (26) ghosted in at the far post to restore PSG's one-goal advantage at half time, before Blaise Matuidi (54) made it 3-1.

Two minutes later Neymar smashed home through a crowd of bodies to score his seventh strike in all competitions this season, but PSG did enough to hold out and move top of the group.

It was a welcome triumph for Laurent Blanc's men, who have drawn five of their eight Ligue 1 clashes so far, especially as they managed to do it without injured talisman Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Barca coach Luis Enrique said afterwards: "We were up against a rival who is at the same level as us, and they handled the pressure better than we did. Tonight we didn't play as well as we had hoped. We had a few clear chances at the end when we could have equalised. But I cannot say that it's an unfair result although a draw wouldn't have been too unfair either."

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