Stoke misfit Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting salvages PSG dream
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It had seemed that Paris Saint-Germain, a club so desperate to win the Champions League that they allow that longing to nullify their array of expensively assembled talent, would fall prey to the ebullient underdogs of Atalanta. However, a frantic finale fell kindly for the French club who forged two very late goals to progress to the semi-finals of the Champions League.
The hero of last night in Lisbon was not the £198 million Neymar or the £166 million starlet Kylian Mbappé but a 31-year-old signed on a free two years ago from a recently relegated Stoke City.
As Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting came off the bench in the 79th minute, with his team 1-0 down and heading for a quarter-final exit, he had a simple