Laurent Blanc admitted the attention surrounding Zlatan Ibrahimovic's return to boyhood club Malmo was in danger of distracting Paris Saint-Germain from the task at hand in their Champions League encounter on Wednesday.
PSG secured an emphatic 5-0 victory in Sweden, with Ibrahimovic marking his homecoming with the team's third goal and the three points securing the French titleholders a place in the last 16.
Blanc insisted that his side's success was not dampened by Real Madrid's 4-3 win over Shakhtar Donetsk – a result which saw los Blancos clinch top spot in Group A with one round to spare.
"The thing that we could master this evening was our own game," the former France international told reporters.
"The context was a little separated. With the return of Zlatan in Malmo, we had almost forgotten that the main thing was to qualify for the quarter-finals.
"Focus has driven us tonight, and in 15 minutes we made it difficult [for Malmo]. It took determination to win this game well. We can talk about a good evening, yes."