ANFIELD — Liverpool finally met their match this season, knocked out of the Champions League by a thrilling Paris Saint-Germain side in an enthralling tie that only penalties could decide.
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It was only a shame that these two sides didn’t meet later in the competition. Luis Enrique, the PSG coach, had made the bold claim that the winner would get to the final – it would have been a worthy edition.
They were inseparable over the two ties. Liverpool, accused of a smash-and-grab win with a goal from their only shot on target, after facing 27 in total, in Paris, turned up here to attack, rather than defend, their slender lead, but were left stunned by an early PSG counter.
For 12 breathless minutes, they cheered every PSG mistake, whistled every touch, jeered every misplaced pass.
They broke swiftly, Ousmane Dembele picking up the ball and feeding Bradley Barcola.
Anfield had been a giant balloon filling with pressure and intensity – Dembele burst it from yards out.
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Read MoreLiverpool peppered PSG’s goal but were disjointed. And by the end of the first half their own obvious chance, a cut back for Mohamed Salah, that you would have expected the Egyptian to score, was deflected for a corner.
But if they had seemed to be shrinking in the tie, Liverpool came out steaming in the second half, flooding PSG’s half with attack after attack, forcing their previously forward-thinking opponents to worry defensively.
As legs grew tired, Liverpool grew into the game and had chances to win it.
In the end, it was probably fitting that penalties were the only thing that could separate these two remarkable sides.
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