Half-Time Report: Paris Saint-Germain cruising against Bayer Leverkusen

Paris Saint-Germain are leading Bayer Leverkusen 3-0 after 45 minutes of their Champions League meeting this evening.

The visitors took the lead in the third minute of the match through Blaise Matuidi, who was played into the box by Marco Verratti before sliding a low effort past Bernd Leno.

Sidney Sam had a half-chance to respond for the hosts, but after being picked out in the box by Andres Guardado he fired wildly over the bar.

PSG almost scored a second goal soon after when Zlatan Ibrahimovic latched on to a weak punch from Leno and saw his close-range effort blocked on the line by Roberto Hilbert.

In the 39th minute the visitors were given the opportunity to double their lead after Emir Spahic brought Ezequiel Lavezzi down inside the box and the referee pointed to the spot.

Ibrahimovic stepped up to take the resulting penalty and made no mistake to place the ball past the keeper and into the bottom corner.

PSG scored their third of the evening four minutes later, when Ibrahimovic fired an effort into the top corner after being teed up by Matuidi.