Key events

70 min: Fernandez takes what is effectively a corner from the left. Gvardiol flicks a header towards the top right. It’s heading in, but Mendes eyebrows off the line and clear!

69 min: Anderson jinks his way past Zaire-Emery near the left-hand corner flag. He’s scuttling clear along the byline when he’s cynically brought down by the man he’s just beaten. Zaire-Emery goes into the book.

68 min: Fernandez slips Haaland into a bit of space down the left. Haaland slices wildly over the bar in a state of great irritation.

66 min: If this isn’t bad enough for City, here comes the best winger in the world, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia. He replaces Désiré Doué.

65 min: That goal has taken all of the air out of the stadium … and from Manchester City’s sail. Semenyo tries to whip up the storm again, nipping past Pacho on the right before rippling the side netting. Safonov had it covered.

64 min: Haaland tries to hit back immediately, but his thunderous shot from an angle on the right sails harmlessly wide left.

GOAL! Manchester City 1-4 Paris Saint-Germain (Akliouche 63)

On the edge of the City D, Akliouche picks up Dembele’s low pass from the right, his back to goal. He takes a touch, turns, and peals a shot towards the top left. Donnarumma gets a strong hand to stop it going in … but not strong enough, because when the ball drops back down and lands, the spin takes it back towards the net and over the line.

Maghnes Akliouche scores the fourth goal past Gianluigi Donnarumma. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/Reuters

62 min: Haaland has reached the 37-goal mark in 60 Champions League matches; for the record, it took Lionel Messi 80.

61 min: Semenyo is booked for a crude lunge on Mendes.

60 min: Semenyo feeds Nunes on the overlap down the right. Nunes crosses long for Ndiaye, who shins his shot from eight yards. Now it’s PSG’s turn to look a bit ragged.

58 min: Fernandez crosses long from the left. Haaland flicks on. The ball sails wide right, but any touch from either Guehi or Khusanov, both sliding in, would have surely cut the deficit in half. City have been fantastic since the break.

57 min: Ndiaye has been an electric eel since coming on at the break. He sizzles his way down the left again, trying to force home from a tight angle. Safonov does just enough.

56 min: Haaland is now Manchester City’s number-one goalscorer in Champions League history, by the way. His 37th in the competition for the club puts him one ahead of Sergio Agüero.

55 min: Semenyo jigs in from the left, seeing Pacho off with ease, only to lift his shot over Safonov and off the crossbar. The ball drops to Haaland, who air-whiffs his shot from eight yards! How on earth did he not score?! But his blushes are spared, because turns out Semenyo was offside at the start of the move anyway.

Oh, what a miss from Erling Haaland! Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/Reuters

54 min: That’s got the crowd going for the first time tonight. And how! And then …

GOAL! Manchester City 1-3 Paris Saint-Germain (Haaland 53)

Mendes really should be booked for wrapping his arms around Semenyo’s waist. But somehow no. Then from the free kick, Ndiaye nearly forces a low shot into the bottom left, only for Safonov to parry. But then he picks up possession again, swinging in from the left. Haaland power-glances a header across Safonov and into the top right! Is it on?

Erling Haaland pulls a goal back for City! Photograph: Ryan Pierse/Getty Images

51 min: A PSG free kick near the centre circle. Nuno Mendes goes for goal, having spotted Donnarumma off his line. Not quite, but full marks for sass and ambition.

49 min: Semenyo dribbles artfully down the right and curls a cross towards Fernandez at the far stick. Fernandez has to convert this sensational cross … but slaps a downward header wide left. City should be on the scoresheet, and speaking of which, here’s Matt Dony with a quip he describes himself as the “lowest of low-hanging fruit … if City carry on playing this badly, it could end 1-114!”

At least he was on target with the water bottle. Photograph: Jason Cairnduff/Action Images/Reuters

48 min: Haaland barrels down the left and clips a low pass across to Semenyo, whose drive from the edge of the box is deflected high and wide. Haaland couldn’t get the ball out from under his feet to shoot himself. Anyway, the resulting corner comes to nothing, but City have flown out of the blocks here, clearly having been given the half-time what-for.

46 min: Two of the subs quickly into the action. Bouaddi creams a diagonal towards Ndiaye on the left. Ndiaye cuts into the box before hoicking harmlessly over.

City get the second half started. They’ve made a triple change, hooking Cherki, Doku and Dias for Nunes, Bouaddi and Ndiaye.

Half-time postbag. “That 30-odd minutes of football from PSG is some of the best I’ve ever seen. At this level football transcends sport into something approaching art. Just amazing to watch” – Martin Gamage

“Say what you will about the tenets of the Qatari government, but at least they built a team worth the money. From spending a decade as Europe’s most dependable clown show, they’re now quite possibly the best club side since peak-Messi’s peak-Barcelona” – Walter Sobchak Kári Tulinius

“I thought I would enjoy City getting hammered, but it’s hard to muster anything above indifference. It’s all so artificial right now, like trying to get outraged over Cellophane. Bring on the charges/irrefutable evidence so we can all just move on. (I’m watching BSC Preussen v Altglienicke in the German fourth tier this weekend, now that’s proper football)” – Tim Woods

“People derided Arteta’s approach during the final but you simply can’t go toe to toe with this PSG team” – Arthur Simiyu

“Good plan, City have decided to be abysmal to take the pressure off and give the media a break!” – Chris, Corfu

“City need to spend seriously big money in January” – Andrew Goudie

“I sincerely hope that Enzo Maresca is only getting paid once for this sham…bolic performance tonight!” – Justin Kavanagh

Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

HALF TIME: Manchester City 0-3 Paris Saint-Germain

PSG have been sensational; City haven’t been able to do a thing about it. Hey, do you think Luis Enrique took the number Enzo Maresca did on him in the World Club Cup final personally, á la Michael Jordan?

45 min +2: … as has Doku, to be fair, and he cuts in from the left only to scuff a drive straight at Safanov.

45 min +1: Semenyo shoots. Blocked. He’s been City’s best player, which sounds like damning with faint praise, but he’s been lively.

45 min: This is the first time City have conceded three first-half goals at home in the Champions League. They’ll be delighted only two minutes of stoppage time are to be played.

Uh oh. Photograph: Tom Jenkins/The Guardian

44 min: … Guehi tries to hack clear, but only manages to slice back towards his own goal. Fortunately for him, straight at Donnarumma. City’s defenders have been all over the place.

43 min: Mendes takes on Dias down the left. The ball clanks off Dias’s arm and out for a corner. From which …

41 min. … but this is better too. City win another corner, this time down the left, and from that, Guehi and Gvardiol get in each other’s way as they attempt to head goalwards from close range. The ball squirts harmlessly wide left.

40 min: Semenyo jinks down the right and enters the box along the touchline. His low cross-cum-shot is turned around the post by Pacho, but more through luck than design. The resulting corner leads to a rare period of City pressure, but Haaland can’t get a shot away when the ball nears him. PSG finally clear their lines. Better from City, though their bar is set so low this evening it may as well be subterranean.

38 min: Zaïre-Emery dribbles towards the City box with great elegance. He sits Khusanov down, but then can’t decide whether to look for Dembele or shoot himself. He does neither. But PSG launch another attack, and Hakimi shoots yet again. Straight at the keeper.