After mercilessly defeating French rivals Brest 7-0 on Wednesday to win their play-off round tie 10-0 on aggregate, Paris Saint-Germain can anticipate a showdown with either Liverpool or Barcelona in the last 16 of the Champions League.
PSG’s first-leg victory in Brittany last week effectively ended the tie with a 3-0 victory over the formidable opponents  and Brest.
There were seven different goal-scorers in the return at the Parc des Princes, with Bradley Barcola, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Vitinha, Desire Doue, Nuno Mendes, Goncalo Ramos and Senny Mayulu netting for the home side.
It is PSG’s record-breaking winning margin in a European competition, and it is their first Champions League goal in seven years since Celtic defeated them 7-1 in November 2017.
PSG has found the net 21 times in its first five Champions League appearances since then despite only three goals in their first five matches this year.
Even though Ousmane Dembele failed to add to the 18 goals he had already scored for Luis Enrique’s side in his previous 12 appearances, they made a dominant display in this case.
After achieving a historic third-place finish in Ligue 1 last year, Brest’s first-ever European campaign came to an end in agony.
Being drawn against PSG was an anti-climax for Brest. They have lost 19 of the club’s final 20 meetings, but they haven’t defeated them in 40 years.
Marquinhos blocked a Mathias Pereira Lage shot in front of the net before PSG struck in the 20th minute, almost giving Brest the lead.
For his 16th goal of the season, Barcola, who is on the left, controlled a Fabian Ruiz ball over the top before beating goalkeeper Gregoire Coudert near post.
Six minutes before the break, Kvaratskhelia scored his second goal for his new club after Barcola had headed in a low Joao Neves cross.
In stoppage time in the first half, Neves hit the crossbar, and Pierre Lees-Melou then fired a header past Brest for the opener.
However, just before the hour mark, Vitinha’s lovely strike from the edge of the area made it 3-0, and Ramos then finished with a delightful piece of skill to level up Doue for the fourth.
In the fifth minute of play, Mendes was tapped by Achraf Hakimi, and Ramos scored from close range with his ninth goal of the campaign.
On 86 minutes, Kvaratskhelia scored 18-year-old Mayulu to cap the scoring before Abdallah Sima had a goal that Brest had been denied for offside.
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