How Arne Slot’s side came through their Champions League last 16 first leg will take some analysing but it came down to sheer force of will
Liverpool pulled off a barely comprehensible 1-0 victory over Paris St Germain as substitute Harvey Elliott struck late on after the Ligue 1 champions had dominated for 87 minutes.
Alisson faced 27 shots and saved 10 of them but at times was the only thing standing in the way of complete annihilation against totally dominant opponents. The hosts, for so long the butt of the joke in their expensive but so far futile chase for Champions League glory, showed they are a force to be reckoned with having come up short in the semi-final last season.
Having started centrally Dembele switched to the right and enjoyed a devastating 15-minute spell, first skipping past Andy Robertson and Alexis Mac Allister only for Joao Neves to miskick his shot into the ground and see it bounce over the crossbar. The suffering did not end there as VAR came to Liverpool’s rescue again on a red card check for Ibrahima Konate’s last-man shoulder barge on Bradley Barcola after Italian referee Davide Massa had waved play on.
Kvaratskhelia, who had earlier fully extended Alisson with a long-range drive, then doubled up against Trent Alexander-Arnold on the PSG left before cutting in to test the Liverpool goalkeeper again.
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