Liverpool boss Arne Slot described Tuesday's Champions League shootout decline on penalties to Paris St-Germain as "the most beneficial video game of soccer I have been associated with", Regardless of his facet exiting the Levels of competition Consequently.
Just after dropping past week's first leg one-0 in Paris, the website visitors levelled the tie at Anfield on aggregate because of Ousmane Dembele's 12th-minute strike.
Liverpool experienced loads of odds to score on their own, but the game went to time beyond regulation and was decided on spot-kicks, where PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma saved from Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones, before Want Doue fired house to seal a four-one success.
"It had been the most beneficial recreation of football I've at any time been involved with," Slot claimed on Amazon Primary.
"It had been an incredible functionality, particularly if you Examine it with previous week. Maybe we ran out of luck as the margins were being so smaller.
"We performed an ideal match, except for scoring a objective. It absolutely was comparable to Paris very last week, once they performed the proper video game and did not score. After which you can in overtime, they have been perhaps a bit superior."
Defeat leaves Liverpool using a domestic double to Perform for.
With a fifteen-level guide at the highest, the Reds are all but particular of profitable the Premier League, while they deal with Newcastle while in the Carabao Cup last at Wembley on Sunday.
"We were being pretty good and you want to go as significantly as you possibly can, but we realized when we drew Paris that it had been going to be very hard," admitted Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk.
"In Paris, we struggled but we won. Nowadays we saw a very good Liverpool facet, but we're out with the Opposition."
Scotland remaining-back Andy Robertson explained the main target will change to Newcastle now as he included: "It wasn't meant to generally be and we need to dust ourselves down. We constantly get better, there's a lots of tired legs in there. Cup finals, we get pleasure from them, and that is the biggest match."
PSG manager Luis Enrique felt Liverpool were unlucky as he explained: "Both of those from the teams need to Visit the next stage.
"They performed much better than us in this article, but I think my crew at Anfield, in a very special stadium showed excellent individuality and character.
"I do think it reveals clearly the group we're."