Messi scores as PSG work past Japan's Kawasaki
Lionel Messi scored however Paris Saint-Germain were made to buckle down for a 2-1 win over Kawasaki Frontale on Wednesday in the main match of their pre-season Japanese visit.
Star advances Messi, Neymar and Kylian Mbappe all began in new PSG director Christophe Galtier's most memorable game responsible for his full crew before a horde of 65 000 at Tokyo's National Stadium.
Messi opened the scoring with a 32nd-minute shot yet a much-changed PSG setup in the final part could oversee just a single additional objective through substitute Arnaud Kalimuendo.
J-League champions Kawasaki pulled an objective, thinking back to the 84th moment when Kazuya Yamamura headed home plain to set up a cheeky completion.
PSG will play two more J-League sides on their Japanese visit, taking on Urawa Reds in Saitama on Saturday and Gamba Osaka in Osaka the next Monday.
PSG had the majority of the early belonging however the primary genuine possibility tumbled to Kawasaki.
A pass forward split the PSG protection and delivered striker Marcinho, just for the Brazilian to put the ball wide with the objective under his control.
Kawasaki goalkeeper Jung Song-ryong denied Mbappe a moment later after Messi had played him in on objective.
Kawasaki's Chanathip Songkrasin - nicknamed the "Thai Messi" - then, at that point, cleaned a shot off of his Argentine namesake off the line to keep the game scoreless.
Be that as it may, Messi tracked down a way through soon after, directing a shot into the corner from right inside the container.
Neymar and Mbappe left at halftime and Kawasaki forward Kei Chinen botched a wonderful opportunity to balance when he bursted over the bar in the 50th moment.
Messi bowed out not long after as Galthier, recently showed up from Nice, rung the changes.
Substitute Kalimuendo multiplied PSG's lead when he turned home Juan Bernat's low cross in the 58th moment, before Yamamura pulled one back with six minutes left to play.
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