Manchester United have been thrashing about wildly in the transfer market since the days of Sir Alex Ferguson – buying players with all the strategy and calm of a schoolyard Panini sticker collector.
Paris Saint-Germain, meanwhile, have been relentlessly stockpiling real talent. It has been an expensive project but here we saw the fruits of all that investment as PSG finally produced a performance of note on English soil.
The French champions will take two away goals back to Paris knowing that they have secured something valuable and if they came to Old Trafford having identified key weaknesses in their opponents then maybe it was to be expected.