Ferran Torres (R) celebrates with PSG's French forward #10 Ousmane Dembele (L) after scoring his team's fifth goal during the UEFA Champions League, league phase, matchday 1, football match against Slovan Bratislava at the Parc des Princes Stadium in Paris on September 9, 2026.
Ferran Torres scored a hat-trick and Ousmane Dembele also starred as Paris Saint-Germain began their quest to win a third consecutive Champions League title by thrashing Slovan Bratislava 6-1 at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday.
Last year’s Ballon d’Or winner Dembele had bagged a brace by the midway point in the first half in the French capital, and then set up Spain’s World Cup final hero Torres to make it 3-0 by the interval.
Torres, a close-season signing from Barcelona, added two more just after the restart to complete his hat-trick before the hour mark, with Suleiman Camara pulling one back for the Slovakian champions and Fabian Ruiz then sealing PSG’s win.
Anything other than a comfortable PSG victory would have been an enormous surprise given the gulf in resources between these clubs, and this was really just a warm-up for Luis Enrique’s team ahead of much tougher tests to come in the league phase.
