Former Manchester City defender Nedum Onuoha, watching for Match of the Day, described it as “great entertainment”, but “not a normal game of football”.
“I don’t feel like both teams were going at it at the same time,” he said. “In the first half, PSG were excellent and City looked really off the pace. As a consequence they were heavily punished and the game basically left them.
“But then in the second half they have made some changes, they have rallied, knowing they are playing in front of their own crowd and their performance had to be better. So, it was more aggressive and more on the front foot, and that’s why we saw those crazy scenes where it was shot after shot by City.
“If these two teams had played this game in matchweek six or seven, it would not have looked like this. There would have been more defensive solidity from both sides and they would probably have approached the game in a different manner.
“But at this stage, as we have kind of seen with some of the other games tonight, it is just goals, goals and more goals.”
Either way, the superb Enrique remains the scourge of the Premier League, adding another win against City to a Champions League victims list that includes Liverpool, Aston Villa, Tottenham Hotspur and Arsenal, in a semi-final then last season’s final.
Enrique is currently master of all he surveys in Europe as leader of this wonderful PSG team.
For Maresca and City, it is back to domestic business at home to Ipswich Town on Saturday – and all the uncertainty that brings with the Premier League in a state of limbo as they await sanctions and the result of their appeal.
