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PSG 4-1 Club Brugge LIVE! - Messi & Mbappe braces - Champions League result, match stream & latest updates todayBy Evening Standard

Lionel Messi and Kylian Mbappe both scored twice as Paris Saint-Germain ended the Champions League group stages in emphatic fashion.

While Brugge had managed to keep PSG at bay in the opening matchday, they could do little to stop Mbappe from opening the scoring inside two minutes.

Visiting goalkeeper Simon Mignolet clumsily punched Nuno Mendes’s cross into the path of Mbappe who fired home after two minutes and the striker was at it again five minutes later when he volleyed past the Belgian from Angel Di Maria’s pass.

Mbappe is the youngest player to reach 30 goals in the Champions League, less than two weeks before his 23rd birthday.

Messi added the third seven minutes before halftime with a trademark curled attempt from outside the area and although Mats Rits pulled one back in the 68th, PSG were always in control.

Messi wrapped up a comfortable victory with a 76th-minute spot kick after being brought down by substitute Ignace Van der Brempt.

Additional reporting from Reuters

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