If a team took 27 shots and put 10 on the target for an XG of 1.82. And the other only took two shots by putting one on the target for an XG of 0.27, which team would you have won?
Pencils down. You are wrong. It is not this one like Liverpool, despite doing nothing in attack throughout the whole match, won 1-0 in Paris Saint-Germain in the round of 16. Behind a strike that did not come from Mohamed Salah, but instead, his replacement Harvey Elliott, the young Reds delivered the winning shot with his first touch of the match while being set up by his other replacing Darwin Nunez. This is still another example of the changes of Arne Slot turning into goals, but they would not have matters without the performances of Alisson in the net, the Brazilian making nine stops.
Even slot said Liverpool was lucky on their side. “If we got a draw, we would have been lucky,” he said after the match.
The Liverpool goalkeeper delivered what he described as the best performance of his life in the face of 10 shots and saving nine from them, preventing 2.26 goals. Even with PSG taking their shots from outside the box, players’ skills like Ousmane Dembele and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia allow PSG to take pictures of where they wish and generally, except when they are confronted with a Brazilian wall AA.
“Probably (the best performance of my life) of my life … The manager told us how difficult it would be to play against PSG, how good they are on the ball, we must be ready to suffer, so when you see the clips also opponents, you know what is happening,” said Allison after the match.
“Most of the prosecution is to have someone to make sure that the player who has the opportunity reflects a little more, that makes my work easier. All the efforts that the team moves and at the end, Harvey arrives and marking a goal, it’s incredible. Good story and a good night.”
These are the types of nights that strengthen the belief that Liverpool can win this competition. Arriving in the match, PSG had scored in 22 undefeated consecutive games in each of them. Their last laundering and defeat came on an outside trip to face Bayern Munich during the tournament league phase, but statistically, the Luis Enrique team was outclasssed during this match, unlike it.
From the outside to have no final contact, PSG was ready for this match, but now they will have to show that they will be able to shake this on the second floor in Anfield on Tuesday. If things are a little different earlier in the match, Liverpool may not have had these chances. Ibrahima Konate had a challenge on Bradley Barcola examined by Var in the 28th minute who could have led to a red card and, according to the analyst of the sports rules CBS Christina UNEKEL, the bad decision was made on this review.
“I will not actually agree with the referee and the Var manager in this room herself,” said Unkel. “I think it should have been recommended for a red card due to the refusal of an obvious opportunity of the objectives being that the contact occurs outside the penalty zone.”
If Konate is triggered, Liverpool might not have been able to resist all the chances that PSG has generated, but that will not matter because the 1-0 advance cannot be removed from them. It will be more difficult for PSG to dominate a correspondence to this degree in Anfield and now Slot will have a better idea of ​​how to settle down to make sure they keep the thin. The Reds will probably not be worse than this in the second stage, but they will have to be wary of the danger that PSG can create with their attack, because if the finish is lit, this tie is probably not over.
