Oil gives you wings: PSG, Red Bull Salzburg and a bad advert for football

Luis Enrique’s side can be quietly hopeful of Champions League progress after deathly meeting of pop-up teams

Wed, 11 Dec, 2024 - 18:25

Barney Ronay

It has often been said that the point of art is to ask the essential questions. Why does this thing exist? Why is this process happening? And is there any way of making it stop? In this context Paris Saint-Germain’s 3-0 defeat of Salzburg at the Red Bull Arena on Champions League match-day six was undeniably a work of art.

At the end of a fretful but still relentlessly soporific game, 90 minutes of Diazepam-ball dotted with moments of quality, PSG had upgraded their hopes of progressing to the next phase from dicey to quietly hopeful.