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PARIS — It took a huge blunder to gift Paris Saint-Germain victory in the first Champions League match of its post-galactico era. PSG scraped a 1-0 home win over tournament newcomer Girona with a stoppage-time winner after goalkeeper Paulo Gazzaniga let a left-wing cross from Nuno Mendes trickle under his hands and through his legs. For the first time in more than a decade PSG began its Champions League campaign without at least one star player, known as a "galactico." After Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Edinson Cavani, Neymar, Kylian Mbappé and Lionel Messi left without winning Europe's elite club competition PSG started this campaign with a new identity. It was far from convincing.
