There have been more obviously brilliant performances by City but none surely so calm or complete as PSG lost their heads
Everywhere you looked, people were losing their heads. There was Ángel Di María stamping on Fernandinho. There was Leandro Paredes hurling the ball at an opponent. There was Marco Verratti, seconds after being booked, pulling Riyad Mahrez’s shirt. There was Presnel Kimpembe and Danilo flying into challenges.
There was Mauricio Pochettino, having at one point marched on to the pitch to try to calm his side, giving up and sitting glowering on the bench. And there was the Dutch referee Björn Kuipers smiling beatifically, determinedly keeping 21 players on the pitch, although had one of those late lunges brought a serious injury, his failure to produce more than one red card would have seemed questionable.
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