Kylian Mbappe Warren Zaire-Emery PSG 2023Getty/ GOAL

PSG player ratings vs Borussia Dortmund: €175m spent on strikers, but Parisians lean on 17-year-old midfielder Warren Zaire-Emery to scrape into Champions League last 16 as Kylian Mbappe turns provider

Warren Zaire-Emery was the homegrown hero for Paris Saint-Germain on Wednesday night, with his deflected strike proving crucial as the Parisians salvaged a point against Borussia Dortmund to qualify for the Champions League knockout stages. After going down 1-0, Zaire-Emery grabbed the vital goal for PSG after a wonderful piece of set-up play from Kylian Mbappe, levelling the game at 1-1 to finish second in their group - albeit in unconvincing fashion.

Without a win, PSG were always going to be at the mercy of results elsewhere. Things mercifully changed in the other fixture - the Parisians mathematically doomed one minute, then saved the next.

In a breathless contest, Karim Ademyemi grabbed the game's first goal early in the second half. It started with an Achraf Hakimi error as the full-back was dispossessed high up the pitch - a sequence that resulted with an easy finish for Adeyemi. The Parisians responded swiftly, though, as Zaire-Emery burst into the box and blasted the ball home.

PSG thought they had grabbed a potential winner, but Mbappe was ruled fractionally offside after finding the bottom corner. It mattered little in the end as both sides settled for a point apiece, with results elsewhere meaning both scraped out of a gripping group.

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