New marking Hatem Ben Arfa was among the scorers as Paris Saint-Germain cavorted to an uneven 4-1 win over Lyon in the Champions Trophy, the conventional French season-opener, on Saturday.
Javier Pastore, Lucas Moura and Layvin Kurzawa got alternate objectives before Corentin Tolisso got a reassurance as the French champions won the trophy for the fourth year running and gave new mentor Unai Emery some early flatware.
What Emery, who touched base in Paris straight from winning three back to back Europa League titles with Sevilla, will make of this early achievement stays to be seen, notwithstanding.
Lyon, last season's Ligue 1 runners-up who additionally lost to PSG in the Champions Trophy 12 months back, did not turn up for the primary hour at any rate and the match was played out in a strange climate in a to a great extent vacant stadium in Klagenfurt.
The French alliance have utilized this amusement to advance their opposition in late seasons, arranging it in Canada, the United States, China and in Africa.
In Austria, the event could barely have been met with more noteworthy lack of concern by local people and immeasurable swathes of the 32,000-seat Woerthersee Stadion stayed vacant.
The flight of Zlatan Ibrahimovic after four great seasons in Paris has removed a portion of the star quality from the champions however they started another period by dashing into a three-objective interim lead.
Pastore greatly changed over a Kurzawa cross for the opener and the Argentine then squared for Lucas to package in the second under weight from Jeremy Morel.
Heavenly attendant Di Maria hit the bar with a delightful chip before setting up Ben Arfa, the previous Lyon player taking a touch and lashing in his first objective since marking from Nice.
Ben Arfa was the main new face in the beginning line-up named by Emery, himself another entry after the sacking of Laurent Blanc.
Pastore set up Kurzawa for the fourth objective nine minutes into the second half with the Lyon barrier all adrift and by then it looked like PSG could go ahead to altogether humiliate their adversaries.
In any case, goalkeeper Kevin Trapp was at last constrained into a recovery from Maxwel Cornet just before the hour and midfielder Tolisso snatched a comfort objective with three minutes remaining when he headed home a Christophe Jallet cross.
PSG start their Ligue 1 title protection away to Bastia next Friday with Lyon commencing their crusade at advanced Nancy two days after the fact.
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