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That’s all from me. Thanks for reading and for your emails. What a game. Congratulations to PSG, that was one of the best 45-minute performances I have ever seen. I have absolutely no idea how Khvicha Kvaratskhelia gets in this side ahead of Bradley Barcola. Anyway. Cheers!
David Hytner’s match report from Paris:
Champions League roundup:
Champions League: Feyenoord’s Giménez hits double to stun Bayern
Sid Lowe’s match report from the Bernabéu:
Manchester City Pep Guardiola faces the cameras:
They were better. They were faster. They won the duels. We couldn’t control it. The best team won. The game was never how we wanted. We didn’t take the ball.
It could happen [that City go out]. We would deserve it. We had difficult away games but that’s a reality and we have to accept it.
Here are some of the scenes after the final whistle in Paris.
Ousmane Dembélé hugs PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma. Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA
PSG fans light flares in the stands. Photograph: Yoan Valat/EPA
PSG players salute their supporters. Photograph: Christophe Petit-Tesson/EPA
Ouch. Photograph: Adam Davy/PA
City still have their destiny in their own hands. Should they beat Club Brugge at home next week, City (25th on eight points) will nip into the top 24 and a play-off fixture. That is due to PSG (22nd on 10 points) and Stuttgart (24th on 10 points) having to play each other next week in the final round of the league phase. Should City win and earn 11 points, that should be enough to qualify for a play-off.
These are all the full-time scores in the Champions League today.
Arsenal 3-0 Dinamo Zagreb
Celtic 1-0 Young Boys
Feyenoord 3-0 Bayern Munich
Milan 1-0 Girona
Real Madrid 5-1 RB Salzburg
RB Leipzig 2-1 Sporting
Shakhtar Donetsk 2-0 Brest
Sparta Prague 0-1 Internazionale
Celtic are through to the play-off round, a great effort from the Scottish side. The same is true for Feyenoord, after a sensational 3-0 win over Bayern!
And this is how things stand in the standings. One match to go!
Manchester City fans, do you want the good news or the bad news?
The good news is that the women’s side are through to the semi-finals of the League Cup after a derby win over Manchester United.
The bad news is that the men’s side are facing further accusations of foul play.
City blew a 2-0 lead away at Brentford just eight days ago. Brentford roared back to snatch a 2-2 draw.
Tonight in the Paris rain, PSG looked down and out at 2-0 down. But what happened over the next 40 minutes was as surprising as it was total. Barcola terrorised Matheus Nunes on the left. Dembele came on and did the same to Rico Lewis on the right. In central midfield João Neves ran around like a man possessed. Vitinha relentlessly kept the ball moving. Willian Pacho quietly pocketed Erling Haaland like he was a packet of Tic Tacs. PSG won 4-2 but it could have been six or seven.
City are in real trouble in the Champions League. But they look completely bereft of style, energy or composure. Turns out wins over Ipswich Town, Salford City and West Ham don’t mean much at the sharp end of elite European football.
That is an absolutely sensational second half of football from PSG. I have rarely seen Manchester City bossed so completely. Pep Guardiola’s side are now in serious danger of going out of the Champions League at the league phase.
Manchester City’s manager Pep Guardiola (left) and PSG’s head coach Luis Enrique embrace at the end of an enthralling match. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP
Ramos runs clear and finishes cooly past Ramos, R2-ing (Pro Evo heads know) a finish into the top corner. The goal is initially ruled out for offside, and while it’s true that Ramos was beyond the last man, the goal is given as the last touch was off a Manchester City man, with replays showing that Ramos received the ball after it bounced off Gvardiol’s shoulder. It’s four!
Paris St Germain’s Goncalo Ramos slots the ball home. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
Then celebrates. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
Then is joined in the celebrations by Vitinha, Presnel Kimpembe and Joao Neves. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
90+2 min: City win a corner. Here comes the cavalry. Stones, Akanji and Gvardiol all come forward but a PSG free-kick is given for a Haaland block (I think).
90 min: Ederson comes to City’s rescue, closing the angle well to deny Ramos, who had wriggled clear.
We’ll have three minutes added on here. As a neutral, I’m surprised it is only three.
PSG’s Goncalo Ramos (centre) has his shot saved by Manchester City’s goalkeeper Ederson. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
88 min: Forgot to mention that Lucas Hernandez has replaced Bradley Barcola, another contender for player of the match. That might look like PSG are going defensive, but they look as likely as ever to get a fourth.
87 min: City finally carve out an opportunity as they desperately try to chase the game. And when I say carve, I mean hack away with a spoon, as they lump the ball forward, win the second ball on the edge of PSG area, with Gundogan firing over from 20 yards out. It was a weak shot in truth, with the ball stuck under the German.
85 min: João Neves has been magnificent in midfield. Not only has he snapped into tackles, been intrinsic in PSG’s press and used the ball smartly, but he looks like he has scored the winner.
“João Neves is John Snows in English”, emails Peter Oh. “When it comes to Champions League goals in Paris tonight, when it rains, it snows”.
83 min: Hakimi crossed to Ramos, who backheeled the ball into Dembélé’s path, and the winger finished at the back post but was just offside from that Ramos flick. It remains 3-2 to PSG.
Paris St Germain’s Ousmane Dembélé thumps the ball home but he’s denied from getting on the scoresheet again by the offside flag. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
80 min: Just look what this does to the league phase table! PSG up into the top 24 and City are now two points adrift!
PSG come from 2-0 down to lead 3-2! From a deep free-kick, whips in a delicious cross into the box. It goes over every City defender, before João Neves stoops at the back post to nod PSG into the lead. The Portuguese was completely unmarked, so much so that I can’t even tell who was meant to be marking him, but that was still an outrageously difficult header, with the ball flying over a sea of heads and skidding and sliding off the slick turf.
PSG’s Joao Neves (centre right) celebrates with Vitinha after scoring his side’s third goal. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP
77 min: Stones, who has been out for a month, comes on for Matheus Nunes. That change is about 25 minutes too late. I wonder if it will be Stones or Akanji at right back.
75 min: A rare lull. This has been a sizzling second half.
73 min: City simply can’t get out of their own half. Ederson, normally so capable with the ball at his feet, has been wasteful in possession on a number of occasions, gifting the ball to PSG as he tries to play out.
71 min: Dembele inches away from giving PSG the lead! The winger cuts in from the right, embarrasses Silva with a nutmeg that would make your father weep before crashing a right-footed howitzer off the underside of Ederson’s bar! Woooooow! Dembele is technically left-footed but he is so strong on either side. Silva, the former Monaco man, can count his blessings that didn’t go in.
70 min: It is not a surprise to see Guardiola hook De Bruyne and Kovacic. Gundogan and McAtee (!) come on in City’s midfield.
68 min: City have lost all control of this game, which has been such a hallmark of their play under Guardiola. But Silva, De Bruyne and Kovacic look very leggy in midfield.
66 min: PSG continue to create openings. Barcola acrobatically volleys over the bar and Dembélé does the same with a wild left-footed shot after good work from Zaire-Emery.
65 min: PSG have made two more changes, Warren Zaire-Emery and Goncalo Ramos on for for Doue and Fabian Ruiz.
63 min: Nunes is having a torrid time at right back against Barcola. A penny for Kyle Walker’s thoughts.
PSG are level! We’ve had four goals in the last 10 minutes! Doué cuts inside, curls a shot over Ederson … the ball clatters into the bar, rebounds out to Barcola and the young winger bobbles a finish in off the far post. It was a scruffy finish in truth, but ultimately did the job! What a response from the home side!
Bradley Barcola celebrates after getting PSG back on level terms. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
59 min: PSG’s tails are up. City hanging on here.
57 min: This has long been the case but Bradley Barcola … player.
PSG right back in this! Barcola nutmegs Nunes on the left wing and sprints clear of City’s defence. Kovacic chases but simply can’t catch the Frenchman, who canters to the byline, cuts the ball back and Dembélé, standing on the penalty, places a finish from the penalty spot under Ederson and into the far corner. Game on!
Paris St Germain’s Ousmane Dembele heads back to his own half after getting the home side back into the game. Photograph: Stéphanie Lecocq/Reuters
It’s two! Haaland’s 47th Champions League goal in 46th Champions League game. Grealish wriggles clear on the left, he stays patient and rolls the ball back towards the penalty spot. Joao Neves intercepts but only diverts the ball into the path of Haaland and the big Norwegian sweeps home at the back post!
Erling Haaland doesn’t miss from there. Photograph: Alex Livesey/Danehouse/Getty Images
52 min: What a huge goal that is, and a potentially terminal one for PSG’s European season. They are currently 26th, as things stand, and three points adrift of 24th with just one game to go!
Grealish scores just his second goal of the season, mopping up a rebound after Donnarumma saves from Silva! The goal is made almost entirely by Akanji, who left Nuno Mendes for dead on the right-hand side. The Swiss drove to the byline and made the opportunity for Silva, after which Grealish scored.
Manchester City’s Jack Grealish lashes the ball home to open the scoring. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
Grealish celebrates. Photograph: Michel Euler/AP
47 min: Dembélé starts on the right wing for PSG. On his day, he is one of the best wingers in the world and the Frenchman has six goals in his past four games.
Peeeeeeeep! We’re underway again at the drenched Parc des Princes.
Both sides make half-time changes. PSG bring on Dembélé for Lee.
City on Jack Grealish and Rico Lewis for Savinho and Ruben Dias. That means Gvardiol goes to centre-back and Lewis goes to left-back. Grealish in front of Lewis on the left wing.
These are other half-time scores in the 8pm GMT kick-offs. Feyenoord!
Arsenal 1-0 Dinamo Zagreb
Celtic 0-0 Young Boys
Feyenoord 2-0 Bayern Munich
Milan 1-0 Girona
Real Madrid 2-0 RB Salzburg
Sparta Prague 0-1 Internazionale
You can follow those games in our clockwatch.
Half-time reading/quizzing:
Football quiz: test your knowledge of Premier League nationalities
We’re all square at the break.
“Great to see VAR working as intended, chalking off stunning team goals because a knee cap protruded half an inch beyond the tip of the last defender’s boot”, emails Kári Tulinius, correctly.
45 min: PSG denied an opening goal after the slickest of moves! Nuno Mendes and Lee play an absolutely outrageous one-two to split City’s defence in half. Nuno Mendes races through on goal but rather than shoot, he squares a pass to Barcola, past the onrushing Ederson. Barcola takes a touch (!), lays it off to Hakimi, who sidefoots a finish into the relatively empty net! City defenders were scrambling back to cover and I think Hakimi’s finish took a little deflected off Dias, which actually helped PSG. But after the home side celebrate, the referee chalks the goal off after Nuno Mendes was proved to be offside in his initial run. A shame! From the neutral’s point of view, of course.
PSG’s Achraf Hakimi slots the ball home before it’s chalked off by VAR. Photograph: David Ramos/Uefa/Getty Images
43 min: Despite TNT Sports’ insistence that this is a Champions League classic, this has not been an enthralling first half. Intriguing perhaps.
Paris St Germain coach Luis Enrique attempts to up the entertainment levels by throwing some shapes on the touchline. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
40 min: City applying pressure as the end of the half nears. A dangerous cross comes into the box towards Dias but Marquinhos makes an expert defensive header with Donnarumma flapping around like a penguin.
38 min: Chance for City and Savinho! Foden slips in a lovely through ball to the Brazilian, who takes a nice first touch away from compatriot Marquinhos and flicks a finish towards the far corner. But Donnarumma collapses nicely – Schmeichel style – and saves with his legs. Good football all round!
Paris St Germain’s Gianluigi Donnarumma makes a save from Manchester City’s Savinho. Photograph: Gonzalo Fuentes/Reuters
36 min: “I’ve decided that Pep on the sidelines looks like a trawler fisherman who has just made it back to port after a tough four days and nights searching for herring on the high seas”, emails Sean Boiling. “All he caught was a cold.”
It continues to be wet in Paris, in case you were wondering.
Manchester City’s fisherman manager Pep Guardiola gestures on the touchline. Photograph: Thibault Camus/AP
33 min: PSG the better side, but are lacking a focal point with a front three of Lee, Doue, Barcola.
A reminder that Goncalo Ramos, signed for €80m in 2023, is on the bench. And Randal Kolo Muani, signed for €80m in 2023, has just been loaned out to Juventus. Hmmm.
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