In City, it's over.
The dream vanished on the night of Manchester, too strong for Paris.
Neymar is not dead on the ground in the sense that the Brazilian has not given everything, like a few insufficient or unworthy individual performances if we want to be more severe.
Mauro Icardi and especially Alessandro Florenzi will recognize each other.
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The great success of Pep Guardiola's men, beyond the weakness of some Parisians, will have been part of their wonderful defense.
It is a team and, as it is a team, it hangs in a group, in a cluster, together, all concerned, to compensate, to slide.
The art of City is worth by this ballet.
The biggest conquests start from behind and the Catalan coach has understood everything, he who often passes for a technician only obsessed with the attacking game.
Paris never really had the opportunity to worry Ederson, despite a header on the bar from Marquinhos (17th) or a strike from Angel Di Maria next to it, despite the empty goal (19th), after a poor recovery from Mancunian .
Di Maria expelled for childishness
Weak in key positions identified by Guardiola, PSG also collapsed, losing their nerves, getting the wrong fight and placing the character in the wrong place. Gana Gueye lost her lucidity in the first leg, for lack of changes initiated by Pochettino's passive coaching. Angel Di Maria will also be expelled (69th) on the return for childishness who does not say that he has experience and has already won the Champions League. Twice to ten in the semifinals of C1, it's a real problem and especially a limit.
Without Kylian Mbappé, unable to start because of his calf contracture, the capital club no longer had a game plan a week later at the Etihad Stadium. In attacks placed as against, there was too little movement and accuracy to destabilize this City, for the first time in the Champions League final in its history. It's with Guardiola and maybe there is no coincidence.
There it's finished.
Paris seemed so far away and so close to the final, with only one goal in 180 minutes - a Marquinhos header from a corner - but intentions and a common thread, which have sometimes jostled the club from the North of England.
Paris knows what remains to be done to get back there and go beyond this stage: better full-backs, a stronger midfielder - Paredes, Herrera, Danilo and Gueye all have qualities but none that makes the difference in these great meetings -, more success.
We already have nostalgia for the past, with these beautiful images of convincing success in Barcelona or Munich against Bayern.
It was with Mbappé.
It was before.
MATCH SHEET
Manchester City-PSG:
2-0
Half-time:
1-0
Referee:
M. Kuipers (PB)
Goals.
Mahrez (11th, 63rd).
Expulsion.
PSG: Di Maria (69th)
Warnings.
Manchester City: Zinchenko (71st), De Bruyne (74th);
PSG: Herrera (22nd), Verratti (71st), Kimpembe (87th), Danilo (89th).
Manchester City:
Ederson - Walker, Stones, Dias, Zinchenko - Silva (Sterling, 82nd), Fernandinho (cap.), Gündogan - Mahrez, De Bruyne (G. Jesus, 82nd), Foden (Agüero, 85th).
Coach:
Guardiola.
PSG:
Navas - Florenzi (Dagba, 75th), Marquinhos (cap.), Kimpembe, Diallo (Bakker, 83rd) - Paredes (Danilo, 75th), Herrera (Draxler, 62nd) - Di Maria, Verratti, Neymar - Icardi (Kean , 62nd).
Coach:
Pochettino.
