It's hard to believe that missing three players with the quality of Neymar, Kylian Mbappe and Edinson Cavani could help a team win a match, but that's exactly the argument Thomas Tuchel made following Paris Saint-Germain's 3-0 mashing of Real Madrid on Wednesday.
Neymar was serving the first match of a two-game suspension, while Mbappe and Cavani both missed out through injury as the French side got their Champions League campaign off to a flying start.
Despite having three world-class forwards watching on rather than playing, Tuchel's side rolled. Angel Di Maria haunted his former club with a brace before Thomas Meunier rounded out the scoring in injury time, making easy work of the Spanish giants, who did not register a single shot on target on the night, though they did have two goals called back.