Manchester City EDS coach Brian Barry-Murphy saw 'the seeds of some very important careers start to form' in the defeat that saw the Under-19s eliminated from the UEFA Youth League.
City needed a victory at home to PSG to keep their qualification hopes alive but a young team was comfortably second-best across the 90 minutes even if a late rally added a consolation to see the game end 3-1.
The result leaves the young Blues with just five points from five games - six behind both PSG and Club Brugge - and they are winless in their last four in the competition.
With expectations across the academy of going deep in a tournament that pits the best European sides against each other just like the Champions League does, an early exit at the group
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