When the referee blew the final whistle, the entire Parc des Princes fell deathly silent.
On the bright-red scoreboard, the time read zero, just like the number on the left representing the home side's goals.
By contrast, the number on the right, representing the visitors' goals, was enough to make anyone despair: four!
In the eighty-sixth minute, Marcelo and Asensio combined on the left. Asensio then set up Marcelo, who struck a left-footed shot from inside the box and scored Real Madrid's final goal.
Four to nil—Real Madrid had crushed Paris Saint-Germain away from home!
It was a scoreline that left the home fans in despair, much like the hopeless away defeat Barcelona had suffered at their hands in the first leg of last season's Champions League round of sixteen.
The difference was that this time, they had faced another La Liga side: Real Madrid.
Yang Yang's Galácticos had not enjoyed the greater share of possession, yet with steadier, more efficient, and more targeted tactics, they had crushed Paris Saint-Germain 4–0 away from home and taught the Ligue 1 champions a painful lesson.
Anyone could see that, with a result like this in the first leg at home, the odds of overturning it at the Bernabéu were practically zero.
It was even harder than Barcelona's great comeback the previous season, because Barcelona had been playing at home.
After the match ended, not only were the Paris Saint-Germain supporters at the Parc des Princes in despair, but the home players on the pitch were equally frustrated and hopeless. The word "defeat" was written across every face.
Especially Neymar's.
The Brazilian superstar had been exceptionally vocal before the match and had placed enormous hopes in it. Before kickoff, he had even expected his team to deliver another hammer blow to Real Madrid,