Given the direction of that arrow I think we’ve got a case for petitioning that gets cancelled as an official shot
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Strong pass.
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Pass to left winger (himself).
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Scouse pas anglais
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A fantastic result after a cynical, pragmatic approach we have often lacked in recent times, but that was a painful 90 minutes to watch.
We were shocking with the ball. There were times where we looked like we hadn’t played a game of football before, and it directly contributed to PSG’s complete and utter dominance for most of the game. If we were able to keep the ball, exchange a few more passes instead of gifting it over and over again, we wouldn’t have been under such intense pressure all the time. We might have even scored another one because they did look very vulnerable to counterattacks. As it happened it took us parking the bus and Alisson having a monumental performance to escape with a truly unjust win.
The tie isn’t over. At Anfield we will need to play actual football if we want to move on, regardless of Alisson’s heroics.
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Le Joe c’est smartass
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Cant fault the result obviously, but to me I’m a bit concerned at how easily they dominated the game.
We were not in control, when we had the ball we were rushed, and had no composure and looked desperate to drive forward.
Their attacking players often beat one or two defenders is also a concern.
A proper smash and grab. Thanks Ali.
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You know what? It’s like that sometimes.
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Should the sides be that far apart? I dont think so.
I laughed this morning when I read one line in an article
‘Donnarumma made no saves in the match’
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PSG backroom guy shouting the odds… Hear big Virg reply :0)
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Morning after. Feels brilliant.
Yes, PSG should have won. They were really good. But we were really good too, defensively. And that’s football. You don’t win them all because of wave after wave of attacking football. Sometimes you dig deep, position well, win your battles and leave everything out on the pitch to keep the opposition at bay.
And then you score the winner with a surgical strike. Alisson to Nunez to Elliott. Bam!
Definitely not counting any chickens though. It is only half time and PSG showed how good they were last night. This tie is not over.
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Stupid on the PSG guy’s part. Suits getting into it with the opposing players never works out.
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Yeah, it’s not Ligue 1 after all…
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I knew this game was going to be very tough. I saw PSG transform itself from that Arsenal game onwards, and it was clear to me that this would be quite difficult.
But looking back this morning, wondering if perhaps Slot gave them a little too much respect.
We were always going to cede possession from his comments b/4 the game, but from the way the game started- we were on top the first 5mins, we were looking to use Diaz to attack behind Hakimi with the long diagonal.
After two turnovers from Diaz, the tenor of the game changed, and we kept dropping deeper and deeper. And although there were openings for the counter, we lacked the composure to fully develop play, until the goal by Harvey…
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Fundamentally, I think the problem was that Diaz and Salah both had really poor games. Jota was not at his best, but most of his turnovers were from attempts to take a defender on or put in a through ball. Diaz and Salah were just coughing up the ball, all too often with sloppy lateral passes that set up the counter perfectly.
Tactically, the fix probably has to be getting more going in midfield.
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It was that lack of composure in the build up phase in MF as we kept trying to get upfield quickly. Plus they pressed well with Neves and Vitinha…
I thought there were vulnerabilities in that PSG team on the counter…
In a way that goes against all popular understanding of the respective leagues, we simply were not used to a press that intense and well executed as PSG’s forwards and midfielders put in yesterday. The very small number of times Slot’s side has faced anything close to that in domestic competition it has been against players who are not anywhere near this good with the ball once they win it back.
It will be interesting to see what happens next week - whether they are able to repeat that away from home, and whether we stand up to it better now we’ve experienced it, or whether we even both trying and instead have a better developed and executed play for going over it.
With the caveat that I thought Pacho was very good. We were linked with him last summer, but I really hadnt seen him much then or since he’d joined PSG. He looked very good.
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That is a really good point, I had not thought of it that way.
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I had the same thought, but I think we played into a bit too. We were very disrupted by their press, but we also didn’t help ourselves by playing well below our capability as an attacking force.
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