France, Dec. 1 -- Nantes defied the form book on Saturday night with a resolute display to earn a point at Ligue 1 pacesetters Paris Saint-Germain.

The visitors arrived at the Parc des Princes on the back of four successive defeats to face a team that had won five games on the trot in the French top flight.

And within two minutes of kick-off, it appeared the respective sequences would continue.

Achraf Hakimi stabbed home after Goncalo Ramosmarked his first start for PSG in three months with a neat back-heeled flick from Nuno Mendes' cross to set him up.

The strike animated the home faithful on a bitterly cold night in the French capital and they should have been further warmed seven minutes later when Vitinha engineered an opening for...