As Paris Saint-Germain’s coaching staff and players hared onto the field to celebrate a fourth and fatal goal, the Catalan looked crestfallen. Try as he might, he just can not find the answers.
Nothing worked: not a defence that creaked against pace, not a midfield that looked disregulated or a forward line that vanished in a disastrous second half. In biblical rain in the French capital any pretensions that City are back to their best were swept away.
Now they have a team to match that strange vibe, a blend of the final remnants of their shimmering but ill-starred Galatico era and a new, younger generation who give them an air of chaos and unpredictability.
Guardiola looked like he hated every minute of it. He glowered through the first half and they weren’t even that bad.
The locals sniffed blood early. Just 11 minutes were on the clock when Ruben Dias saw yellow for crudely checking Achraf Hakimi’s run. It was the first clanging of alarm bells but it was to grow so much louder.
Rico Lewis and Jack Grealish were summoned at the break with Dias – who had looked every inch like a player still feeling his way back to fitness – among those hooked.
The home side’s fightback was Barcola’s doing. The winger’s lightning run teed-up substitute Ousmane Dembélé for the first before his quick reflexes swept a rebound past Ederson to restore parity. It felt like frantic, knockout football and that suited the home side so much more.
Guardiola’s gambit was to bring back John Stones to restore aura but it backfired, his number five missing a header to allow Joao Neves to nod home a third and swipe City’s Champions League destiny out of their own hands, before Goncalo Ramos added insult to injury with the fourth deep into injury-time.
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