Paris, Feb. 19 (BNA) Paris Saint-Germain was just minutes away from its fourth consecutive loss on Sunday when Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi came to the rescue to avert a major club crisis.
The Ligue 1 leaders squandered a two-goal lead and found themselves trailing by a goal in the 86th minute before Kylian Mbappe and Lionel Messi turned things around to turn the fiasco into a 4-3 victory over Lille.
As PSG looked on course for a fourth consecutive loss in all competitions, Mbappe grabbed a late equalizer at the Parc des Princes.
Messi then scored the winning goal in overtime with a free kick, with a deadly left-footed shot into the bottom right corner, according to the Associated Press.
The hard-fought victory followed a 1-0 home defeat in midweek to Bayern in the Champions League that followed a 3-1 defeat by Monaco in the league and another setback against arch-rivals Marseille in the French Cup.
PSG went 2-0 up after 16 minutes after Neymar’s goal but the French champions conceded three times – with Paphod Diakite, Jonathan David and Jonathan Bamba all scoring and losing Neymar to injury.
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