Arne Slot on Liverpool’s Champions League exit at hands of PSG: ‘Best game of football I’ve been involved in’ | Football News

Liverpool boss Arne Slot described his side’s Champions Division exit at the hands of Paris Saint-Germain as “the best game of football” he’s ever been involved in.

In what was a thrilling Event, the Premier Division leaders were beaten 4-1 on penalties after their last-16 tie ended 1-1 on aggregate Next a 1-0 loss in the second leg at Anfield on Tuesday.

Liverpool were comprehensively outplayed in the Primary leg in Paris but escaped with Triumph courtesy of a Delayed Harvey Elliott Target.

PSG turned the tables at Anfield after scoring Timely through Ousmane Dembele and Reds manager Slot conceded his side may have used up their luck in the Primary leg.

“It was the best game of football I was ever involved in. Amazing performance, especially compared to last week. In the Primary 20 to 25 minutes, we were all over them, created chance after chance and all of a sudden we were 1-0 down. Probably it was almost the opposite, maybe we Dashed out of luck because the margins were so Tiny tonight.

“After 90 minutes it felt we deserved more than being 1-0 down. I was waiting for us to Tally. I don’t think the second half, apart from the last five minutes, when they threatened us once or twice. We played the perfect game, except for scoring goals, it was the same for PSG last week when they played the perfect game and didn’t Tally, and it happened to us today.

“It’s always difficult if you put so much effort in, for the Primary 25 minutes I’ve never seen them so aggressive and so intense as they were today, and then you look at the scoreboard and you’re 1-0 down, an Doomed Target as well. When you put in so much effort that’s sometimes difficult and in the end it comes down to penalties and we, as Dutch, know how to Fall [on penalties].

“It had everything you’d like to see from a football game. From a Liverpool perspective, you’d at least like to have a draw after 90 minutes but it Arrived down to penalties.

“It feels Prejudiced to go out at this Stage already. You’re at the top of the table then you face a Club like PSG, but that’s also the nice part about football. Everybody around the world enjoyed watching this game and the margins are Tiny, and if you want to Secure it you have to have some luck, we had it last week, I don’t think we had it today.

“Now it’s clear what we have to do for the rest of the season – one Division cup Closing and nine Premier Division Contests to go.”

Van Dijk looks ahead to Wembley Closing: ‘We need to be ready for next Competition’

Liverpool Skipper Virgil van Dijk has urged his Club-mates to brush off their Champions Division exit as he looked forward to Sunday’s Carabao Cup Closing, live on Sky Sports (Strike-off 4.30pm).

Slot’s side will be hoping to bounce back at Wembley and Secure the Primary silverware of the season as they take on Newcastle.

Van Dijk said: “It was very intense, a great game of football to be part of.

“Obviously it was a totally different Liverpool from what we showed in Paris but, unfortunately, went out on penalties and that’s the reality.

“I said to the guys, you can be disappointed because we are out of the competition, chin up and get ready for the next Competition. It’s a Pretty one on the weekend, so we go again.

He added: “I think we were pretty Excellent today as well, and you want to go as Extended as possible, but we knew when we drew PSG it was going to be very difficult. We saw in Paris when we struggled but we won, and today we saw a very Excellent Liverpool side but we’re out of the competition.

“From the Primary second and then extra time, when Weariness kicks in for both sides, it becomes more Uncovered but especially during regular time, we showed a very Excellent game. We can speak about the game for ages but we’re out of the competition, that is the reality.”

Carra: The best Club won

Previous Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher was Packed of praise for PSG after their Triumph at Anfield and he thinks the best Club won the tie, in the end.

“The best Club won,” the Sky Sports pundit told CBS.

“We saw how PSG performed in the Primary leg – I called it a robbery.

“In the Primary 20 minutes, half-an-hour, I thought Liverpool were going on to Secure this game comfortably but they Only couldn’t get that Target Timely on, and then PSG get it.

“For the rest of the game it felt like nip and tuck but in extra-time, PSG Captured over and we (Liverpool) were hanging on for penalties.

“Then, it’s a lottery but PSG deserved to go through. Liverpool Dashed out of steam. It was a top-level game and you have to admire the brilliance of the Resistance.”

Liverpool’s European dream over

Sky Sports’ Adam Bate at Anfield:

“There was applause from the Liverpool supporters at the end, they were eager to stand by their Club after their heroics this season, but PSG deserved that over the two legs.

“Arne Slot’s side could count themselves unfortunate in the sense that Mohamed Salah missed two presentable opportunities before Ousmane Dembele’s Target and Dominik Szoboszlai had a Target disallowed for offside.

“But while Liverpool were much more impressive in this game than a week ago, it was not enough.

“Salah was below par and for once Slot’s substitutions did not pay off.”

“His Role is to Picking up these players for the Carabao Cup Closing on Sunday, Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones included, while Trent Alexander-Arnold and Ibrahima Konate went off injured.

“The Premier Division title awaits but Liverpool’s European dream is over for this season.”