Liverpool boss Arne Slot explained Tuesday's Champions League shootout loss on penalties to Paris St-Germain as "the very best activity of football I've been involved with", Regardless of his aspect exiting the competition Therefore.
After dropping previous 7 days's to start with leg one-0 in Paris, the site visitors levelled the tie at Anfield on mixture as a result of Ousmane Dembele's twelfth-minute strike.
Liverpool had a good amount of likelihood to attain them selves, but the game went to additional time and was decided on place-kicks, the place PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma saved from Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones, in advance of Desire Doue fired house to seal a 4-one success.
"It was the very best sport of football I have at any time been linked to," Slot reported on Amazon Key.
"It absolutely was an unbelievable effectiveness, particularly if you Assess it with previous week. Maybe we ran outside of luck as the margins were being so compact.
"We performed an ideal recreation, except for scoring a goal. It absolutely was just like Paris previous week, every time they performed the right game and failed to score. And after that in extra time, they ended up perhaps a bit greater."
Defeat leaves Liverpool having a domestic double to Participate in for.
By using a fifteen-position lead at the highest, the Reds are all but certain of successful the Leading League, when they confront Newcastle in the Carabao Cup ultimate at Wembley on Sunday.
"We were very good and you ought to go as far as feasible, but we knew after we drew Paris that it absolutely was going to be very hard," admitted Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk.
"In Paris, we struggled but we received. Today we saw a very good Liverpool facet, but we're out on the Competitors."
Scotland remaining-back Andy Robertson stated the main focus will switch to Newcastle now as he extra: "It was not meant to get and we must dust ourselves down. We normally get better, there's a number of fatigued legs in there. Cup finals, we delight in them, and that's the largest video game."
PSG manager Luis Enrique felt Liverpool were unlucky as he claimed: "Both in the teams should Visit the next section.
"They played a lot better than us in this article, but I think my staff at Anfield, inside of a Unique stadium confirmed terrific character and character.
"I believe it reveals clearly the team we have been."