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Champions League Defeat to PSG Exposes Man City's Flaws Once Again

To an extent, defeat to Paris Saint-Germain doesn’t matter for Manchester City. It’s only the group stage of the Champions League. Come March, Tuesday's 2–0 defeat to PSG at the Parc des Princes will be a game that will be remembered, if it is remembered at all, for Lionel Messi’s first goal as a PSG player. City will, almost certainly, go through to the knockout rounds and, thanks to country protection, it cannot play a Premier League club in the last 16. More generally, there was plenty to admire about its performance. It had 17 shots to PSG’s six.