City's European wins drought goes on

Three games into the group phase and City have three draws to show for it. According to the Guardian, City created the better chances across the night but couldn't turn dominance into daylight on the scoreboard, a problem that is becoming the defining theme of their European campaign.

PSG's equaliser arrived late, converted from the spot by Shaw after the Guardian reported City had squandered a string of clear openings before the penalty decision turned the game. A one-goal lead through most of the match should, in theory, be enough to see out at home. It wasn't.

A pattern now, not a blip

One draw against a strong side can be filed under bad luck. Three in three starts to look like a finishing problem, and at this level the margins are too tight to keep missing. City sit top of the Premier League table, seven wins from seven and unbeaten domestically, so this isn't a squad short of quality or goals in general. It's specifically happening on the European stage.

That gap matters because the Women's Champions League rewards ruthlessness more than any domestic competition does. Missed chances against PSG don't just cost two points, they chip away at a top-four finish that determines how City's continental season ends.

The top-four picture tightens

City now need results elsewhere to go their way just to stay in touching distance of the qualification places, having failed to beat anyone in the group so far. PSG, by contrast, leave the Joie Stadium with a point they barely deserved on the balance of play but will happily bank.

The next fixtures will tell us whether this is a group of players who simply need the finishing to click, or a deeper issue Grainger has to solve before the group stage runs out of games to fix it in.