7 Classic Games PSG Fans Should Rewatch While Football Takes a Break

Paris Saint-Germain are a team which have come to be associated more with glorious failures than outstanding victories in recent years. 

Yet that hasn't exclusively been the case - as the games below demonstrate - and in this football-less world we currently live in, what better time to look back at those games which are remembered for the right reasons, at least from a PSG point of view. 

PSG 4-1 Real Madrid (1993)

​Going into the second leg of this UEFA Cup semi-final, PSG were trailing 3-1 on aggregate from their trip to the Santiago Bernabéu. ​Real Madrid's passage to the semi-finals was considered all but guaranteed. 

However, the match wouldn't quite follow Madrid's script. 

George Weah opened the scoring for PSG just past the half-hour mark with a towering header from a corner to give the hosts the perfect start. They only needed one more to go through on away goals but endured an agonising wait until the 80th minute. 

Weah flicked the ball up and lifted it over Madrid's defence for Daniel Bravo to cushion a header down to David Ginola, who ripped a sweetly hit half-volley into the top corner.

As Madrid sought the goal which would put them ahead on aggregate PSG's Brazilian midfielder Valdo made it 3-0 on the night with three minutes of normal time left. But Madrid did find that goal when Ivan Zamorano stabbed home after a set-piece in the fourth minute of stoppage time to give the exacerbated crowd another 30 minutes of action. 

But Antoine Kombouaré won the tie in the 96th minute with a brilliant flicked header as a cacophony of joy erupted within the Parc des Princes. 

PSG 1-0 Rapid Wien (1996)

Other than the Intertoto Cup, the wonderfully named European Cup Winners' Cup remains the only continental prize PSG have ever won. 

But when the talismanic figure of Raí was forced off after just 12 minutes after a hefty challenge, it looked like that European crown would never come. 

However, Bruno N'Gotty's outrageous free-kick after 29 minutes would prove to be the winner. The French centre-back charged onto the ball Youri Djorkaeff rolled into his path, lashing it in from at least 35 yards out. 

The Rapid Wien players can't have been that worried about the attempt as they offered just a two-man wall but N'Gotty's strike skidded along the surface and past the outstretched hand of Michael Konsel to win the trophy. 

PSG 3-0 Liverpool (1997)

In PSG's first ever meeting with Liverpool, the French club thrashed Roy Evans' side by a 3-0 scoreline which somewhat flattered the English visitors. 

That season, ​Liverpool would lead the Premier League table for almost a fifth of the campaign, and yet PSG were easily superior. The Brazilian Leonardo was inspired that night, scoring the opener after 12 minutes and nodding the ball for Benoît Cauet to get the second two minutes before the interval. 

The hosts added a third in the final knockings which would prove pivotal in the second leg as Liverpool won 2-0 at Anfield, which wasn't quite enough to overall the first leg result. 

PSG 3-0 Marseille (2002)

Perhaps Ronaldinho's finest game in a Paris Saint-Germain shirt game in the club's most important fixture of the season - Le Classique against Marseille. 

The Brazilian was unstoppable that October afternoon, scoring a brace and generally tormenting the Marseille backline every time he got on the ball. 

Chelsea 1-2 PSG (2016)

When Qatar Sport Investment became PSG's owners in 2011, as with the other European 'super-clubs', domestic dominance was taken as a given, but the ​Champions League is where they judge themselves. 

In 2015, PSG knocked out ​Chelsea after two draws but a year later, their convincing performances across both legs against the reigning Premier League champions was so impressive it even garnered talk from the ​BBC of a 'new order in European football'. 

PSG 4-0 Barcelona (2017)

Given the infamous comeback which followed, this match has almost been completely scrubbed from the annals of time, but it should not be forgotten how startlingly good PSG were in that first leg of the Champions League round of 16.

PSG's manager Unai Emery had prevailed in just one of his previous 23 meetings with ​Barcelona but his plan that February night was near perfection. 

Ángel Di María produced his best performance arguably since the 2014 Champions League final with Real Madrid and opened the scoring with a superb free-kick. 

Les Parisiens pressed relentlessly, and midway through the first half Barcelona were forced to play the ball back to their goalkeeper from an attacking corner. Capitalising on that intensity, Julian Draxler made it 2-0 after Marco Verratti pinched the ball off ​Lionel Messi's toes and slipped the German in behind five minutes before the interval. 

Di María was given all the time in the world to pick his spot and bend in a third 10 minutes after the break before right-back Thomas Meunier charged through the chasms left by Barcelona and teed up Edinson Cavani to smash a fourth past a battered ​Marc-André ter Stegen. 

It could have been even more as Barça's discipline disintegrated and under different circumstances, this game would be endlessly cherished in Paris. Nevertheless, it shouldn't go underplayed how great PSG were that night but, whatever you do, don't watch the second leg. 

Marseille 1-5 PSG (2017)

High-fives all round.

The largest ever margin of victory in Le Classique began with Thiago Silva providing a headed assist for fellow Brazilian defender Marquinhos to nod beyond the helpless goalkeeper as the visitors raced into a 4-0 lead inside an hour. 

Rod Fanni scored a not so consolatory consolation goal which was cancelled out two minutes later by Blaise Matuidi. PSG were simply untouchable that day with five different scorers getting the goals.