'A big night in the Champions League': three things we learned from Real Madrid-PSG

The veteran French striker outshone the young French striker as Real Madrid reasserted the old order, coming from two goals down to eliminate Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Wednesday.

AFP looks at three things we learned from the game:

Wait goes on for PSG

With less than half an hour to go at the Bernabeu, the great Paris Saint-Germain gamble seemed to be paying off.

Last summer the club opted not to sell Kylian Mbappe, who will be a free agent after this season, and had invested heavily in an ageing Lionel Messi and Sergio Ramos and also in young Italy goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.

Mbappe scored to give PSG a 1-0 victory in the first leg. He then dazzled as PSG dominated the first hour in Madrid, scoring in the 39th minute putting his team two goals up.

Then Donnarumma, trying to play out of defence passed to Vinicius Junior who found Karim Benzema for a tap in.

PSG imploded.

It wasn't quite a collapse on a par with the infamous Camp Nou remontada in 2017 when Barcelona scored three times after the 88th minute to eliminate PSG 6-5 on aggregate. It was total nonetheless.

Benzema hit three in 17 minutes and PSG ended a tie they had dominated, looking like kids in a playground.

In the end, the team that historically finds a way to win in the Champions League, even when they should lose, beat the team that so often manages to lose when they should have won.

Mbappe looks at home - in Madrid

The build up was dominated by the relentless speculation on the future of Mbappe, presumed to be heading to Real Madrid as the golden keystone in a rebuild to an ageing squad.

For an hour, Mbappe looked at home at the Bernabeu. He had already had two shots saved and an effort that hit the net ruled out for offside when he ran