Zlatan Ibrahimovic opened the scoring from the penalty spot, Thiago Silva netted on his debut, Alex made it 3-0 and Javier Pastore wrapped up the victory with a fourth in stoppage time.

The French club, who have spent over 200 million euros ($261.11 million) on players since being taken over by Qatari investors over a year ago, were never really threatened by the visitors who got a late consolation through Miguel Veloso.

Carlo Ancelotti's side will next travel to Porto, who snatched a 2-0 win at Dinamo Zagreb.