“Many would like to see us dead,” Luis Enrique had announced, theatrically if not entirely incorrectly, after the narrowest squeak through the Champions League group stages in the autumn.
Midway through this last-16 tie Paris Saint-Germain remain not just alive but favourites to register their first knockout victory in three years. They were driven on at the Parc des Princes by the edge of Kylian Mbappé and the energy of a reconfigured team that is, for all its anti-galactico stylings, geared ever more to feeding the ball towards its incumbent Sun King.
