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New-look PSG starts its Champions League campaign against Dortmund

New PSG winger Dembele celebrates with Mbappe.[PSG]

Paris Saint-Germain started its previous Champions League campaign with a team featuring Lionel Messi and Neymar and a win over Juventus.

The two soccer greats didn't score that night and PSG later was eliminated from Europe's top competition in the last 16 for the fifth time in seven years. The premature exit, once again, highlighted the blatant failure of PSG's strategy of assembling star-studded teams without a real backbone.

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