PSG without Neymar, Mbappe held 4-4 by lowly Amiens

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PSG without Neymar, Mbappe held 4-4 by lowly Amiens
Amiens' Serhou Guirassy scored a personal injury time equaliser on Saturday to secure a roller-coaster 4-4 draw with a Paris Saint-Germain side without Neymar and Kylian Mbappe ahead of next week's Champions League last 16 tie at Borussia Dortmund.

Relegation-haunted Amiens have been on course for a shock win if they surged right into a 3-0 lead after 40 minutes prior to the French champions clawed their in the past to lead 4-3 on the back of Tanguy Kouassi becoming PSG's youngest scorer in 44 years.

Brazil forward Neymar has been sidelined since February 1 with a rib injury while France World Cup winner Mbappe was rested before Tuesday's visit to Germany.
PSG coach Thomas Tuchel said the world's priciest player remained any doubt for the first leg tie.

"For Tuesday I have no idea. I have to wait until tomorrow's training session," Tuchel told broadcaster Canal+.

"Everybody's talking about the match so for that we can feel it's inside our heads and we've been a bit distracted by it.

"We showed a reaction, our quality, and our mentality was really good, we deserved to win," he added.

PSG move 13 points free from second-place Marseille while the home side stay in the relegation zone and with out a league win since November 2.

The hosts' boss Luka Elsner made two changes to his side from last Saturday's loss to Monaco as Haitam Aleesami and Bongani Zungu started instead of the suspended Thomas Monconduit and Bakaye Dibassy.

- Amiens early blitz -

Former French youth international Guirassy opened the scoring after nine minutes before ex-Chelsea midfielder Gael Kakuta doubled the lead 20 minutes later.

Fousseni Diabate, on-loan from Leicester City, managed to get 3-0 on the 40-minute mark after his low effort was deflected by PSG captain Thiago Silva.

Midfielder Ander Herrera slice the league strugglers' lead seconds before half-time with a side-footed volley.

Tuchel made two changes at the break with Marco Veratti and Marquinhos replacing Idrissa Gueye and Silva.

Teenager Tanguy Kouassi scored his first senior goal after one hour from a Julian Draxler header to be PSG's youngest goal scorer since Lionel Justier in 1976.

The 17-year-old holding midfielder, who remains on an academy contract with the Parisians, equalised five minutes later from an Angel Di Maria as PSG pushed on.

The visitors thought that they had completed an enormous comeback as Juan Bernat found Mauro Icardi at the back-post and the on-loan forward hit his 19th goal of the growing season.

But after one minute of injury time, Guirassy was fed by winger Quentin Cornette to equalise for his eighth effort of the campaign.

On Sunday, second-placed Marseille head to Lille in fourth.

On Friday, attacker Islam Slimani claimed a 1-0 victory for Monaco at Montpellier.
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