For 30 first-half minutes Paris Saint-Germain threatened to swagger their way through an oddly fearful and muddled Manchester City team. This 2-1 away win was a triumph also for Pep Guardiola, who did that thing here he’s not meant to do. Still though, Guardiola has a history of flinching a little too much on these occasions. For a while there was the extraordinary sight of this City team being given a chasing, being punked, merked, debagged, as the navy shirts swerved and flicked and swaggered about in easy little triangles. In the space of one Parisian lull, one switch of the full-backs’ starting position, City had gone from being dominated to a position of steamrollering ascent.

Source: The Irish Times April 29, 2021 04:52 UTC