In that second half, the cavalry kept coming, wandering off the bench and onto the field one after the other. As Atalanta’s players blinked back the sweat, it must have felt as if Paris St.-Germain could draw from a bottomless well of talent. First, the boy wonder, the next best player in the world, with his blistering speed and his glistening menace and his adhesive touch. Then came the German winger who would walk into all but a handful of teams in the world, and the playmaker not long since regarded as Argentine soccer’s coming star. True, there was a sliver of solace to be found in the desperation of it all.

Source: New York Times August 12, 2020 22:36 UTC