Kylian Mbappe won and scored a penalty in Paris Saint-Germain’s 1-1 draw with Toulouse on Saturday. He was back on the first team after a contract disagreement put him on the bench.

Kylian Mbappe scores on his return to Paris Saint-Germain in a tie with ToulouseKylian Mbappe won and scored a penalty in Paris Saint-Germain’s 1-1 draw with Toulouse on Saturday. He had been brought back to the first team. 

Kylian Mbappe won and scored a penalty in his first game back with Paris Saint-Germain on Saturday, when they drew 1-1 with Toulouse. He was back in the first team after a contract fight with the French champions, and he did this in his first game back. The France captain started on the bench, but he came on in the 51st minute and broke the tie right away. He got Rasmus Nicolaisen to commit a mistake, and then he scored from the penalty spot just before the hour mark.

Zakaria Aboukhlal tied the game with a penalty three minutes before the end after Morocco teammate Achraf Hakimi pulled him back. This means that Luis Enrique still hasn’t won his first game as PSG coach.

“I’m not happy with the result. “The draw was mostly due to bad luck,” the Spaniard said, unwilling to get into a debate about why Mbappe started the game as a sub.

“I know that you (the media) like to ask controversial questions, but my staff and I will keep running things the way we think is best.”

Mbappe hadn’t played for PSG since a friendly on July 21. He wasn’t asked to the pre-season tour in Japan and South Korea, and he also missed the first game, which ended in a 0-0 tie with Lorient.

He had to train with players the club is trying to get rid of because he wouldn’t sign an extension to his PSG contract. But after “constructive and positive discussions” with the club, the 24-year-old was brought back into the team on Sunday.

The change of heart happened just two days before Neymar was sold to Al-Hilal in Saudi Arabia for a price that is thought to be close to 100 million euros ($109 million).

In 2022, when Neymar was strongly linked with a move to Real Madrid, French media said Mbappe made Neymar’s exit one of the conditions for him to sign a new contract.

Mbappe and Ousmane Dembele, who just joined the team, were both put on the bench for the trip to Toulouse, which is where the French Cup is held.

Last week against Lorient, PSG didn’t have many clear-cut chances, and they didn’t have many in the first half either. Hakimi was stopped by Guillaume Restes’ legs, and Goncalo Ramos was stopped by a sharp snap save.

Mikkel Desler’s shot for Toulouse went just wide, and just after halftime, Warren Zaire-Emery’s good goal was called out because he was offside.

Luis Enrique quickly turned to Mbappe and Dembele. Dembele wore Neymar’s old number 10 shirt, and they almost immediately changed the game.

Mbappe’s foot was caught by Nicolaisen’s trailing leg. After a VAR review, the PSG forward was given a penalty kick and scored the game’s first goal.

When Dembele played a through ball for Vitinha, the Portuguese player jumped over Restes, but his shot went just wide of the post.

PSG’s failure to score a second goal cost them when Hakimi was sent off for unnecessarily getting in the way of Aboukhlal as he chased the ball on the edge of the box.

Aboukhlal scored in last week’s 2-1 win at Nantes, and he beat Gianluigi Donnarumma from the penalty spot to give the home team an important point.

“I’m very happy with how things turned out and proud of the team. For us, it feels like a win,” said Toulouse coach Carles Martinez Novell, who worked with Barcelona’s youth teams when Luis Enrique was in charge there.

Lyon lost its second game in a row to start the season, and captain Alexandre Lacazette was sent off in a 4-1 home loss to Montpellier earlier on Saturday.

Last weekend, Lyon lost to Strasbourg. In that game, Arnaud Nordin put Strasbourg ahead, and then Mousa Al-Tamari scored twice for Montpellier.

Lacazette got a goal back, but then he got a red card when he kicked out at Teji Savanier in anger.

Nigerian Akor Adams made his Montpellier debut and scored twice in a 2-2 tie with Le Havre. He then added a late fourth goal to make Lyon’s day even worse.