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Having carried a 1-0 lead from the away fixture, the Reds were the favorites to win the Round of 16 tie against Paris Saint-Germain, but Tuesday turned out to be a rare day when even the atmosphere at Anfield could not phase through the grit of the opposition. PSG cut out Liverpool's lead courtesy of a 12-minute strike by Ousmane Dembele and while both teams found several chances to tweak the scoreline, the regulation time ended with a 1-0 result in favour of the visitors. The match went down to the wire till the penalties, where the Italian goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma proved to be too good a wall to get breached. Donnarumma saved the spot kicks of Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones to ascertain PSG's victory and qualification to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
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Arne Slot Addresses Liverpool's Defeat Against PSG
Following the culmination of the game, Liverpool manager Arne Slot expressed his thoughts on the disappointing result at home and could not help but mention the reason behind the eventual elimination. Slot admitted that the team's inability to score led to crashing out.
“Incredible performance," Liverpool boss Slot reflected. "Especially if you compare it with last week. The first 25 minutes we were all over them, created chance after chance but then we went 1-0 down. It feels a bit unfair to go out in this round already if you were top of the table and face a team like PSG. Last week we had a bit of luck, we didn't have it today.
"After 90 minutes it felt we deserved more than being 1-0 down. I was waiting for us to score. 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 from scoring goals, it was the same for PSG last week when they played the perfect game and didn't score and it happened to us today.
"It's always difficult if you put so much effort in, for the first 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 unlucky goal 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 lose [on penalties].
