Brazil's Botafogo upset UCL champs PSG at CWC

Botafogo stunned Champions League victor Paris Saint-Germain 1-0 connected Thursday nighttime successful each club's 2nd lucifer of the Club World Cup.

Igor Jesus scored precocious successful the archetypal half, and the South American champions made it basal up done a tense 2nd fractional portion moving atop the radical connected six points.

PSG hadn't mislaid successful immoderate contention since May 3, but the European champions looked understandably weary astatine times earlier a lively Rose Bowl assemblage of 53,699.

Jesus' stunning people successful the 36th infinitesimal was the archetypal extremity allowed since May 17 by PSG, which routed Atlético Madrid 4-0 past Sunday successful Pasadena.

The French powerhouse had outscored its past 3 opponents by a combined 12-0, winning the French Cup and the Champions League last on the way.

Ballon d'Or contender Ousmane Dembélé missed his 2nd consecutive crippled for PSG with a quadriceps injury. His teammates inactive dominated possession successful the archetypal half, adjacent though manager Luis Enrique rotated his starting lineup.

Everything came undone with the singular idiosyncratic effort by Jesus, the Brazilian striker reportedly headed for Nottingham Forest adjacent season.

PSG finished with 16 changeable attempts to Botafogo's 4 -- but each 4 were connected target, whereas PSG lone got 2 connected net.

Jesus controlled Jefferson Savarino's agelong pass, outmaneuvered 2 defenders and thumped a changeable past Gianluigi Donnarumma. He leaped implicit a obstruction and up onto the beforehand enactment of the Rose Bowl stands to observe with Botafogo's ecstatic supporters.

PSG had small of the sublime connective play that characterized their stellar tally implicit the past month, but Luis Enrique's nine is inactive successful beardown presumption to beforehand arsenic they caput to Seattle connected Monday to play MLS' Sounders.

Thousands of boisterous Brazilian fans made the travel to observe 1 of the astir singular victories successful Botafogo's storied history. The nine faces Atlético connected Monday astatine the Rose Bowl with a astonishing accidental to beforehand from this hard group.

Information from The Associated Press was utilized successful this story.