The tool was introduced to football to help referees keep players sticking to the rules, but David Luiz found a way to make the vanishing spray disappear on Tuesday night. Turkish referee Cüneyt Çakır's vanishing spray undoubtfully played the lead in an otherwise pretty eventless first half in Tuesday's Champions League match between Paris SG and Chelsea. After having lost his spray bottle close to the penalty area for several minutes at the start of the game, the Turkish referee, who showed an overall good performance in the Parc des Princes, was cheekily deceived by Paris defender David Luiz. Çakır had marked the spot for the kick to be taken from, but former Blues defender Luiz, decided to scoop up the spray and move it to the side while Turkish referee was not looking. PSG didn't score - Ibrahimovic took the kick in the end, which whistled over the bar - but if they had, Chelsea maybe would have had a recourse. Striker Edinson Cavani gave Paris Saint-Germain a Champions League lifeline with a second-half equalizer as his team battled to a 1-1 draw with Chelsea in the last 16. In the night's other last 16, first leg match, 10-man Bayern Munich settled for a 0-0 draw with Shakhtar Donetsk in Lviv, Ukraine.
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