Another year, another premature ending. Paris Saint-Germain are once again out of Europe before spring has sprung, the fifth time they have been knocked out of the Champions League’s last-16 in the past seven seasons, and the worst part is that they have never looked further from their goal of conquering Europe.
There is a theory that PSG have never recovered from the nightmare in Barcelona – La Remontada – and that all the disappointment and the chastening experiences can be traced back to 8 March 2017, when Paris Saint-Germain went to the Nou Camp with a 4-0 lead and lost; the night they reached 90 minutes with a two-goal cushion and conceded two more goals; the night they realised that rewriting football’s world order was going to take more time, more pain and more money.
