There were five minutes left when Kylian Mbappé bent a beautiful shot into the far corner of the net, the ball describing a perfect arc and his perfect night. Marc-André ter Stegen dived but could not stop the Frenchman and nor could anyone else. This was astonishing, a statement of intent and the kind of performance that should have played out before 98,000 people surrendering to his superiority; instead, a virtually empty stadium witnessed him score a superb hat-trick that led Paris Saint-Germain to a deserved 4-1 victory at the Camp Nou.

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