Fog covered the Eiffel Tower on Tuesday and Manchester City are in danger of disappearing from the Champions League.

Pep Guardiola's side have been in a dark place, to quote Bernardo Silva, since they were stunned by Sporting in Lisbon back in November and the crisis really set in when they conceded three goals in the last 15 minutes to draw at home to Feyenoord. You can't win the Premier League every year, but City will be embarrassed if they do not qualify for the Champions League knockouts.

They should still - a win at home to Club Brugge next week will do it - but they currently sit outside of the top 24 places after another chastening evening. Having entered the game with real optimism and scored two good goals, losing 4-2 was another sickener in a season with already too many of them.

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It was never a perfect performance from City, with frustration evident through the team and in the dugout in the first half as PSG took the game to the Premier League champions. Kevin De Bruyne, never one to hide his feelings, got so fed up with makeshift right-back Matheus Nunes not doing what he wanted him to do that he started pointing or gesturing whenever he got the ball.

City's possession count in the first half was well under 40 per cent, yet they did show some promise on the counter in a similar way to when they were at Brentford last week. They didn't have the ball as often as they are used to, but when they did they increasingly carried a threat.

It felt like a breakthrough wasn't far away in an entertaining game, and City went 1-0 up in the 50th minute. The chance looked to be gone when Phil Foden failed to slip in Kevin De Bruyne, only for him to keep his patience and find Manu Akanji, whose surging run into the box found Bernardo Silva and the PSG defence could only turn his shot in the direction of substitute Jack Grealish, who smashed in.

A few minutes later, City were in dreamland as a surging run from Nunes found Grealish and the ball ended up with Erling Haaland at the back post to turn in his 23rd goal of the season. It looked like it was going to be one of their most impressive wins of the season.

Until the latest inexplicable collapse. City can't have been helped by the decision to take Ruben Dias off at half-time - it felt like it must have been injury-related although he was on a yellow card - yet at the same time it cannot be that the removal of one player causes chaos in the backline; these are international players who simply weren't good enough.

PSG were afforded far too much space on the left side to race through and play in Ousmane Dembele, and then Mateo Kovacic gave the ball away in his own third and Bradley Barcola tucked it away after the ball had come off the bar. The Croatian too often seemed to be on the cusp of giving the ball away, so it can have been no surprise to anyone when City paid a heavy price for it.

John Stones was brought on for his first minutes to shore up the final minutes, only for him to miss the opportunity to clear a free-kick from the restart of the game and Joao Neves to had past Ederson. PSG had another goal disallowed before Goncalo Ramos sealed it in injury time with an effort that had initially been ruled out as well.

The biggest worry for Guardiola will be how shot the players looked in those final minutes. Not only did they surrender a lead but once it was gone there was only one team who looked like scoring.

With Chelsea, Arsenal and Newcastle to play next looking to keep them out of the Premier League top four, the storm clouds gather again over City's season.