Man City changes vs PSG are no excuse for another Champions League collapse

Fog covered the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday and Manchester City are in danger of disappearing from the Champions League.

Pep Guardiola's side have been in a dark place, to quote Bernardo Silva, since they were stunned by Sporting in Lisbon back in November and the crisis really set in when they conceded three goals in the last 15 minutes to draw at home to Feyenoord. You can't win the Premier League every year, but City will be embarrassed if they do not qualify for the Champions League knockouts.

They should still - a win at home to Club Brugge next week will do it - but they currently sit outside of the top 24 places after another chastening evening. Having entered the game with real optimism and scored two good goals, losing 4-2 was another sickener in a season with already too many of them.

It was never a perfect performance from City, with frustration evident through the team and in the dugout in the first half as PSG took the game to the Premier League champions. Kevin De Bruyne, never one to hide his feelings, got so fed up with makeshift right-back Matheus Nunes not doing what he wanted him to do that he started pointing or gesturing whenever he got the ball.

City's possession count in the first half was well under 40 per cent, yet they did show some promise on the counter in a similar way to when they were at Brentford last week. They didn't have the ball as often as they are used to, but when they did they increasingly carried a threat.

It felt like a breakthrough wasn't far away in an entertaining game, and City went 1-0 up in the 50th minute. The chance looked to be gone when Phil Foden failed to slip in Kevin De Bruyne, only for him to keep his patience and find Manu Akanji, whose surging run into the box found