NEYMAR and Edinson Cavani netted doubles as Paris Saint-Germain thrashed Celtic to break the Champions League scoring record for the group stage.
Moussa Dembele stunned the French side by netting against his former club inside two minutes.
But PSG hit back with four in the first half, as Neymar bagged twice to go with strikes from Cavani and Kylian Mbappe.
Uruguayan hitman Cavani added his second after the break, with Marco Verratti and Dani Alves getting in on the act in a five-minute blitz that took PSG to 24 goals in qualifying.
The result all but guarantees PSG - who have won all five games - will finish ahead of Bayern Munich at the top of group B, given their massive advantage on goals difference.
Celtic will face Anderlecht needing a point to beat the Belgians to third place and a Europa League spot. Neymar, Cavani and Mbappe had all scored in Celtic's 5-0 home defeat against PSG - their record European home loss. But after a less than minute Dembele turned the game on its head. Dani Alves had conceded a corner with a careless pass back and when Olivier Ntcham played the ball to his fellow countryman he drove it high past keeper Alphonse Areola from 16 yards.
The home side were rattled but they levelled rather easily in the ninth minute through Neymar, the Brazilian taking a pass from midfielder Adrien Rabiot and from an angle steering it past Hoops keeper Craig Gordon. The Scottish champion soon suffered another blow when right-back Mikael Lustig went off injured to be replaced by stand-in defender Nir Bitton.
Celtic, however, kept pressing PSG and Ntcham came close with a 20-yard drive but Neymar showed his class again in the 22nd minute when he played a one-two with Verratti and again clipped the ball past Gordon and in off the far post. Cavani missed the target but only by inches with a left-footed volley before a header across goal from Neymar in the 28th minute, following a Julian Draxler cross, allowed him to knock in the third from close range. Celtic were now in a state of shock.
The fourth came in the 35th minute when Celtic failed to deal with a Neymar free-kick into the box and the ball fell to the unmarked Mbappe who, from 10 yards, drove through Gordon and into the far corner.
Gordon then had to make a fine save at close range from a Mbappe volley after he had latched on to a sublime Neymar pass and the interval whistle arrived as respite.
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