Victory for the reigning champions would have seen them retain their Ligue 1 crown on Sunday night, after second-placed Lille’ 1-1 draw at Reims earlier in the day.
Despite a host of injury problems and the absence from the starting line up of Neymar, Edinson Cavani and Kylian Mbappe, who was named as a substitute, it looked a formality when Eric Maxim Choupo-Moting scored after 13 minutes to put PSG ahead.
However, Strasbourg arrived in the French capital on a high after winning the Coupe de la Ligue final last weekend and following it up with a 4-0 midweek success against Reims, and the visitors rallied.
Thierry Laurey’s team turned the game on its head before half-time with goals from Nuno Da Costa and Anthony Goncalves.
PSG should have regained the lead immediately after the visitor’s equaliser, but an astonishing miss by Choupo-Moting meant it stayed level. Christopher Nkunku lifted his shot over the advancing goalkeeper and the ball was set to trickle into the net, only for Choupo-Moting to follow it in and stop the ball on the goal line in an attempt to get the final touch and his second goal of the game.
Chupo-Moting 🤯 nearly as bad as Nani stopping one of the greatest goals of all time in a Portugal-Spain game because he headed it in (it was already going in) on the goal line (and he was offside) pic.twitter.com/50BkzXAzDe
— Tommy Rooney (@TomasORuanaidh) April 7, 2019
Thilo Kehrer equalised with eight minutes remaining, but the hosts could not find a winning goal and their inevitable coronation was put on hold.
However, all the talk was about Choupo-Moting’s miss.
Check out the video above to see what PSG boss Thomas Tuchel had to say about his misfiring striker.