Paris Saint-Germain has won with great difficulty on the road to Metz in the French elite championship.
The French and European champion won 3:2 in the round of 16 match.
Gonçalo Ramos and Quentin Ndjantou scored in the 31st and 39th minutes to make it 2-0 in favor of the Parisians, but Jessy Deminguet narrowed the score three minutes before the end of the first half.
Then in the 63rd minute, Desire Doue scored for 3:1.
Georgiy Tsitaishvili scored for 3:2, ten minutes before the end. But the home team no longer had the strength to equalize the score and the match ended with the victory of the visitors.
PSG have 36 points after 16 matches, while last-place Metz remain with 11 points.