Mauricio Pochettino feared he'd broken his nose after wild PSG celebrations

Kylian Mbappe’s late PSG heroics caused his manager Mauricio Pochettino an equal amount of joy and pain.

The Frenchman scored a stunning individual goal in injury time on Tuesday night to record a 1-0 win over Real Madrid in the first leg of their last-16 Champions League tie.

It sparked wild celebrations at the Parc des Prince as Mbappe was mobbed by his team-mates after slotting past Thibaut Courtois and it seems even Pochettino got involved in his own celebrations in the dugout.

‘I felt two things. The first was joy, then Paredes ran towards me and hit my nose with his chest,’ he said.

‘And I thought I had broken it. I called our doctor and told him: “I think I’ve broken my nose.”

‘I was wearing this mask and I thought it had broken my nose. So I had these two feelings: the joy, followed by a pain in my nose.’

Mbappe stole all the headlines with a brilliant individual performance with many seeing it as his audition for a potential move to Los Blancos.

The 23-year-old remains yet to commit his future to the Ligue 1 club and appears set to depart for free at the end of the season when his contract expires, with Madrid keen on his signature.

‘We hope that Mbappe will be with us in Paris for many years,’ Pochettino declared after the match. ‘I’m running out of words to describe him.

‘I’ve been saying that he’s incredibly mature despite his youth and he’s one of the best in the world.

‘I’ve been working with him for almost a year and a few months and you see him every day. He’s top.’

Even Carlo Ancelotti described him as ‘unstoppable.

‘Mbappe is unstoppable,’ said the Italian. ‘We tried to control him. (Eder) Militao did very well. But he can always invent something from nothing and did so at the very last minute.’

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