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David Hytner was at the City of Manchester Stadium, and here\u2019s his report. Thanks for reading this MBM.<\/p>\n
Share<\/a><\/p>\n Enzo Maresca talks to TNT Sports. \u201cWe started quite good until the first goal \u2026 then we conceded the second after one minute so that created a little bit of bad feeling \u2026 so first half we struggled \u2026 second half we were much, much, much better and probably deserve something more \u2026 [the first half] was a bit strange to be honest \u2026 we were in the game \u2026 but it\u2019s really difficult when you concede two goals in two minutes \u2026 but we used half-time \u2026 we adjust something \u2026 second half we created enough to deserve something more \u2026 we adjusted the way we were pressing \u2026 something on the ball \u2026 it was completely different \u2026 Luis [Enrique] was quite honest at the end of the game \u2026 he said \u2018we have been quite lucky today\u2019 \u2026 you have to be clinical \u2026 don\u2019t lose the balance \u2026 Saturday [at home to Ipswich Town] is a Premier League game and we need to continue our run.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n This result puts PSG at the top of the nascent Champions League<\/a>. Manchester City are down in 17th place. City host AEK next Tuesday, while PSG welcome Barcelona to the French capital on the same evening.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9 speaks to TNT. \u201cIt was amazing today \u2026 the atmosphere here is amazing too \u2026 you want to play this type of game \u2026 we did good today \u2026 the second half was not quite as good but the result is here \u2026 we did good with the ball \u2026 we respect the tactics of the coach \u2026 when you win 3-0 at half time, you think you can relax, but this is the Champions League<\/a> at the highest level \u2026 we have to be better defensively \u2026 be more focused.\u201d<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Not sure how there were only (!) six (!!) goals in the end. That could have ended 2-10, 6-6, 8-6 or anything in between. Manchester City<\/a> were much improved in the second half, but paid the price for not turning up for the first, during which PSG at times went into full Harlem Globetrotters mode. The reigning champions were outrageously good; the half-time scoreline of 0-3 didn\u2019t flatter them at all. City will take succour from the performances of two-goal Erling Haaland, plus the second-half subs Iliman Ndiaye and Ayyoub Bouaddi, but on this evidence PSG are going to take some stopping, especially if they can keep their concentration for the full 90. Very early doors, of course, but the three-peat looks very much on for Luis Enrique\u2019s side, who celebrate with feeling in front of their fans.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>FULL TIME: Manchester City 2-4 Paris Saint-Germain<\/p>\n Luis Enrique and Enzo Maresca embrace. Their teams put on one hell of a show.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +3: Kvaratskhelia hasn\u2019t done much since coming on. Not by his lofty standards. He tries to address that with a power-dribble down the middle, then a probe down the right, but there\u2019s nothing doing.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 90 min +1: Ah well, Torres will always have East Rutherford.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Torres misses the penalty!<\/p>\n 90 min: \u2026 and after a stop and skip, Torres scuffs towards the bottom right. Easy for Donnarumma! The City fans enjoyed that. Then Fernandez makes way for O\u2019Reilly. There will be four additional minutes.<\/p>\n Oooh, that\u2019s poor from Torres. Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The GuardianShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.55 EDT<\/p>\n 89 min: \u2026 but Nunes had made the slightest of contact. Torres to take. Loud boos for the former City man as he prepares to take \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 88 min: \u2026 but VAR is going to take a look \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a>Penalty for PSG!<\/p>\n 87 min: PSG clear and counter. Mendes and Torres one-two down the middle. Mendes enters the box, only to be nicked by Nunes. The referee points to the spot.<\/p>\n Matheus Nunes fouls Nuno Mendes to concede a penalty. Photograph: Phil Noble\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.52 EDT<\/p>\n 86 min: Haaland rolls a pass into the PSG box from the left. Semenyo bustles. He can\u2019t get a shot away, not at first, but eventually slices over from ten yards. Big miss. Or did that take a nick? It took a nick. Corner. From which \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 84 min: A PSG double-switch as Hernandez and Beraldo replace Ruiz and Zaire-Emery.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 83 min: Nunes races into the PSG box down the right and crosses low for Haaland, who slides in at the far stick and hook-forces the ball goalwards \u2026 only for Safonov to sensationally block on the line. Wonderful play all around.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 82 min: Luis Enrique comes to the touchline and gives his players some beneficial advice, utilising letters such as F and JEFF.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 80 min: Semenyo threads a long-range drive towards the bottom right. Easy for Safonov.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 78 min: Neves nearly releases Torres down the inside-left channel with a mid-pirouette side-footed volley. Not quite, because Khusanov slides in to flick clear. That would have been some assist.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 77 min: Hakimi has the chance to release Torres down the middle, but looks for Kvaratskhelia on the left instead. Bad decision. Kvaratskhelia enters the box and drags a tame shot across Donnarumma and wide right.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 76 min: PSG respond by replacing Demb\u00e9l\u00e9 and Akliouche with Jo\u00e3o Neves and former City striker Ferran Torres.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Manchester City 2-4 Paris Saint-Germain (Haaland 75)<\/p>\n Bouaddi one-twos his way down the right and cuts back for Haaland, who sweeps into the bottom left from 12 yards. It\u2019s on! Again! Maybe!<\/p>\n Erling Haaland pulls another one back for Man City. Photograph: Robbie Jay Barratt\/AMA\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.45 EDT<\/p>\n 74 min: The referee Sven Jablonski is shoved over from behind by Fernandez. Hilarity ensues. While that\u2019s going on, Gvardiol crosses from the left. Haaland wins a header at the far stick and pings the ball off the top of the crossbar. But no matter, because \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 72 min: Anderson drives in from the left and shoots from distance. It\u2019s deflected over for another City corner. Fernandez\u2019s delivery isn\u2019t so good this time, but PSG fail to clear their lines, and the ball drops to Semenyo, whose low shot is blocked by Pacho. Then the flag pops up for offside.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 71 min: \u2026 and now Fernandez pings a long-range shot off the junction of right-hand post and crossbar. This game is proper daft.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 70 min: Fernandez takes what is effectively a corner from the left. Gvardiol flicks a header towards the top right. It\u2019s heading in, but Mendes eyebrows off the line and clear!<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 69 min: Anderson jinks his way past Zaire-Emery near the left-hand corner flag. He\u2019s scuttling clear along the byline when he\u2019s cynically brought down by the man he\u2019s just beaten. Zaire-Emery goes into the book.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 68 min: Fernandez slips Haaland into a bit of space down the left. Haaland slices wildly over the bar in a state of great irritation.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 66 min: If this isn\u2019t bad enough for City, here comes the best winger in the world, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. He replaces D\u00e9sir\u00e9 Dou\u00e9.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 65 min: That goal has taken all of the air out of the stadium \u2026 and from Manchester City\u2019s sail. Semenyo tries to whip up the storm again, nipping past Pacho on the right before rippling the side netting. Safonov had it covered.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 64 min: Haaland tries to hit back immediately, but his thunderous shot from an angle on the right sails harmlessly wide left.<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Manchester City 1-4 Paris Saint-Germain (Akliouche 63)<\/p>\n On the edge of the City D, Akliouche picks up Dembele\u2019s low pass from the right, his back to goal. He takes a touch, turns, and peals a shot towards the top left. Donnarumma gets a strong hand to stop it going in \u2026 but not strong enough, because when the ball drops back down and lands, the spin takes it back towards the net and over the line.<\/p>\n Ah. Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The GuardianMaghnes Akliouche scores the fourth goal past Gianluigi Donnarumma. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.33 EDT<\/p>\n 62 min: Haaland has reached the 37-goal mark in 60 Champions League<\/a> matches; for the record, it took Lionel Messi 80.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 61 min: Semenyo is booked for a crude lunge on Mendes.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 60 min: Semenyo feeds Nunes on the overlap down the right. Nunes crosses long for Ndiaye, who shins his shot from eight yards. Now it\u2019s PSG\u2019s turn to look a bit ragged.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 58 min: Fernandez crosses long from the left. Haaland flicks on. The ball sails wide right, but any touch from either Guehi or Khusanov, both sliding in, would have surely cut the deficit in half. City have been fantastic since the break.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 57 min: Ndiaye has been an electric eel since coming on at the break. He sizzles his way down the left again, trying to force home from a tight angle. Safonov does just enough.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 56 min: Haaland is now Manchester City\u2019s number-one goalscorer in Champions League<\/a> history, by the way. His 37th in the competition for the club puts him one ahead of Sergio Ag\u00fcero.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 55 min: Semenyo jigs in from the left, seeing Pacho off with ease, only to lift his shot over Safonov and off the crossbar. The ball drops to Haaland, who air-whiffs his shot from eight yards! How on earth did he not score?! But his blushes are spared, because turns out Semenyo was offside at the start of the move anyway.<\/p>\n Oh, what a miss from Erling Haaland! Photograph: Jason Cairnduff\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.24 EDT<\/p>\n 54 min: That\u2019s got the crowd going for the first time tonight. And how! And then \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a>GOAL! Manchester City 1-3 Paris Saint-Germain (Haaland 53)<\/p>\n Mendes really should be booked for wrapping his arms around Semenyo\u2019s waist. But somehow no. Then from the free kick, Ndiaye nearly forces a low shot into the bottom left, only for Safonov to parry. But then he picks up possession again, swinging in from the left. Haaland power-glances a header across Safonov and into the top right! Is it on?<\/p>\n Erling Haaland pulls a goal back for City! Photograph: Ryan Pierse\/Getty ImagesShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.18 EDT<\/p>\n 51 min: A PSG free kick near the centre circle. Nuno Mendes goes for goal, having spotted Donnarumma off his line. Not quite, but full marks for sass and ambition.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 49 min: Semenyo dribbles artfully down the right and curls a cross towards Fernandez at the far stick. Fernandez has to convert this sensational cross \u2026 but slaps a downward header wide left. City should be on the scoresheet, and speaking of which, here\u2019s Matt Dony with a quip he describes himself as the \u201clowest of low-hanging fruit \u2026 if City carry on playing this badly, it could end 1-114!\u201d<\/p>\n At least he was on target with the water bottle. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff\/Action Images\/ReutersShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.15 EDT<\/p>\n 48 min: Haaland barrels down the left and clips a low pass across to Semenyo, whose drive from the edge of the box is deflected high and wide. Haaland couldn\u2019t get the ball out from under his feet to shoot himself. Anyway, the resulting corner comes to nothing, but City have flown out of the blocks here, clearly having been given the half-time what-for.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 46 min: Two of the subs quickly into the action. Bouaddi creams a diagonal towards Ndiaye on the left. Ndiaye cuts into the box before hoicking harmlessly over.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n City get the second half started. They\u2019ve made a triple change, hooking Cherki, Doku and Dias for Nunes, Bouaddi and Ndiaye.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n Half-time postbag. \u201cThat 30-odd minutes of football from PSG is some of the best I\u2019ve ever seen. At this level football transcends sport into something approaching art. Just amazing to watch\u201d \u2013 Martin Gamage<\/p>\n \u201cSay what you will about the tenets of the Qatari government, but at least they built a team worth the money. From spending a decade as Europe\u2019s most dependable clown show, they\u2019re now quite possibly the best club side since peak-Messi\u2019s peak-Barcelona\u201d \u2013 Walter Sobchak K\u00e1ri Tulinius<\/p>\n \u201cI thought I would enjoy City getting hammered, but it\u2019s hard to muster anything above indifference. It\u2019s all so artificial right now, like trying to get outraged over Cellophane. Bring on the charges\/irrefutable evidence so we can all just move on. (I\u2019m watching BSC Preussen v Altglienicke in the German fourth tier this weekend, now that\u2019s proper football)\u201d \u2013 Tim Woods<\/p>\n \u201cWith everything that is going on, if City score tonight will it be annotated as Asterix the Goal against the Parisians?\u201d \u2013 Andy Gordon<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve been pondering on a metaphor for City\u2019s matches and I think they are like entries in The Hitchhiker\u2019s Guide to the Galaxy. Entertaining, beautifully crafted and attracting fervent fans, but only plausibly real, not actually real at all. Pep\u2019s team were sometimes described as playing football from another planet – maybe they are now\u201d \u2013 Gary Naylor<\/p>\n \u201cPeople derided Arteta\u2019s approach during the final but you simply can\u2019t go toe to toe with this PSG team\u201d \u2013 Arthur Simiyu<\/p>\n \u201cGood plan, City have decided to be abysmal to take the pressure off and give the media a break!\u201d \u2013 Chris, Corfu<\/p>\n \u201cCity need to spend seriously big money in January\u201d \u2013 Andrew Goudie<\/p>\n \u201cI sincerely hope that Enzo Maresca is only getting paid once for this sham\u2026bolic performance tonight!\u201d \u2013 Justin Kavanagh<\/p>\n Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The GuardianShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a016.05 EDT<\/p>\n HALF TIME: Manchester City 0-3 Paris Saint-Germain<\/p>\n PSG have been sensational; City haven\u2019t been able to do a thing about it. Hey, do you think Luis Enrique took the number Enzo Maresca did on him in the World Club Cup final<\/a> personally, \u00e1 la Michael Jordan?<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min +2: \u2026 as has Doku, to be fair, and he cuts in from the left only to scuff a drive straight at Safanov.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min +1: Semenyo shoots. Blocked. He\u2019s been City\u2019s best player, which sounds like damning with faint praise, but he\u2019s been lively.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 45 min: This is the first time City have conceded three first-half goals at home in the Champions League<\/a>. They\u2019ll be delighted only two minutes of stoppage time are to be played.<\/p>\n Uh oh. Photograph: Tom Jenkins\/The GuardianShare<\/a><\/p>\n Updated at\u00a015.51 EDT<\/p>\n 44 min: \u2026 Guehi tries to hack clear, but only manages to slice back towards his own goal. Fortunately for him, straight at Donnarumma. City\u2019s defenders have been all over the place.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 43 min: Mendes takes on Dias down the left. The ball clanks off Dias\u2019s arm and out for a corner. From which \u2026<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 41 min. \u2026 but this is better too. City win another corner, this time down the left, and from that, Guehi and Gvardiol get in each other\u2019s way as they attempt to head goalwards from close range. The ball squirts harmlessly wide left.<\/p>\n Share<\/a><\/p>\n 40 min: Semenyo jinks down the right and enters the box along the touchline. His low cross-cum-shot is turned around the post by Pacho, but more through luck than design. The resulting corner leads to a rare period of City pressure, but Haaland can\u2019t get a shot away when the ball nears him. PSG finally clear their lines. Better from City, though their bar is set so low this evening it may as well be subterranean.<\/p>\n