Neymar will have a crack from right on the edge of the penalty and looks to bend one round the wall into the far corner, but it comes off his own player and goes behind. Montpellier survive, for now.

Dimitry Bertaud comes on in goal, Mihalo Ristic is sacrificed.

Uh oh.

Goalkeeper Jonas Omlin has his yellow card upgraded to a red.

Montpellier in all sorts of trouble now but they can't complain too much about that one. It looked a sending-off in real time, never mind in slow-mo...

Now then, they're going to check that challenge on the monitor...

What a pass from Leandro Paredes to set Kylian Mbappe free and Jonas Omlin comes flying out and wipes the France forward out. Mbappe just got a toe to the ball to take it past the goalkeeper... who could be in trouble?

Just a yellow card. He's got away with that. Mbappe would've surely rolled the ball into an empty net.

That through pass from Paredes, though. Gorgeous.

Neymar catches Teji Savanier and isn't impressed by the Montpellier player's reaction - Savanier looks hurt though. Bit late from the Brazilian.

How has that not gone in?!

Leandro Paredes floats a diagonal ball out to Alessandro Florenzi on the right of the penalty area and the full-back volleys it across the face of goal.

Neymar, Mauro Icardi and Layvin Kurzawa all slide in but no one can get a touch on it.

Hello! Great composure from goalkeeper Jonas Omlin to fake a clearance and instead drag it past a sliding Angel Di Maria inside his own box. Very nice.

Not just PSG with a showboater in their ranks...

Junior Sambia storms forward down the right but there's no other Montpellier shirt in support and his cross is easily gathered by Kaylor Navas.

Oooh!

Chance for Mauricio Pochettino's side as Angel Di Maria fires over on the turn from the edge of the box, but Mauro Icardi was offside earlier in the move.

Montpellier have dropped in and put up an orange wall on the edge of their own box. It's going to have to be inch perfect from Paris St-Germain to break them down.

Montpellier are captained by 43-year-old defender Vitorino Hilton tonight, comfortably old enough to be Kylian Mbappe's dad.

Plenty of touches of the ball for the hosts in the opening stages.

And we are under way in Paris.

Very well, thanks for asking.

The stage is set for this one. Only your touch to blame on that carpet...

Mauricio Pochettino's long-time assistant Jesus Perez has been standing in during the boss' absence.

"It is strange without Mauricio but we have the support of the entire club," he said.

"We have worked together for 10 years. When we have worked together, players & staff have developed. He makes everyone better."

Mauricio Pochettino looked set to be watching this one from his front room, after testing positive for coronavirus last week.

The Argentine missed PSG's win over Angers on Saturday while in self-isolation, but has recovered in time to make it back into the dugout tonight.

And here's how Montpellier line up...

Jonas Omlin, Arnaud Souquet, Daniel Congre, Vitorino Hilton, Pedro Mendes, Mihailo Ristic, Junior Sambia, Teji Savanier, Damien Le Tallec, Florent Mollet, Gaetan Laborde.

Pochettino must feel like he's unwrapped a new games console for Christmas, has loaded up Fifa and is about to see how many goals he can put past his mates.

Mbappe, Di Maria, Neymar and Icardi all start for the hosts.

What's French for "he's magic, you know..."?

Mauricio Pochettino's Paris St-Germain tenure is properly up and running now, with the Argentine a whole 20 days into the job and having already won his first managerial trophy.

His PSG side sit top of Ligue 1 heading into this Friday night clash with Montpellier.

And there's plenty of star names on show...

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