LIVERPOOL, England — Liverpool head coach Arne Slot described the second leg of his team’s Champions League tie with Paris Saint-Germain as the “best game of football” he has been involved in, despite crashing out of the competition on penalties.
Liverpool won the first leg of the tie 1-0 thanks to a late goal from Harvey Elliott in Paris but lost at Anfield after Ousmane Dembélé found the back of the net to draw PSG level on aggregate.
The French champions then triumphed in the shootout, with Gianluigi Donnarumma saving from both Darwin Núñez and Curtis Jones before Désiré Doué hammered home the winning penalty.
“It was the best game of football I was ever involved in,” Slot told reporters after the match. “I don’t have the history that Liverpool has as a manager but it was two teams at an incredible level. It was an incredible intensity in the first 25 minutes.
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