They could (should?) have taken six in the first leg last week, but as they are still alive before this quarter-final second leg of the Champions League in front of their home crowd, the Liverpool players believe in it when they meet PSG this Tuesday evening. “Everyone knows what they have to do, there is no doubt that we have an opportunity to pass,” said Dominik Szoboszlai on Monday.
The Hungarian is “100% convinced” that the Reds are capable of turning things around. His coach Arne Slot also, on one condition: “score the first goal”, and if possible quickly. “A goal can change the match,” he recalled, aware that his team had missed out at the Parc des Princes but that they were also “capable of producing great performances”.
Words which are nothing other, for the moment, than good self-persuasion before this kind of meeting. But there is undoubtedly some truth, and Luis Enrique intends to use it as a lever to call his men to be vigilant.
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“For me, it’s a trap match, football and matches change very quickly, you have to be concentrated because you can concede a goal very quickly,” said the coach of the Parisian club. It will be important to start the match well, we know the difficulty of playing in this stadium but it is motivation for us. »
The Spaniard would not have spat against an additional goal last week, this 2-0 proving “very short compared to what (he) saw on the field”. An additional advantage for the Parisians, however, is that they can draw on the experience of last year, when they won at Anfield in the round of 16 second leg.
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“I think the difference from last year is that we have more confidence. We are the reigning champions and we know how we must manage this type of match,” noted Achraf Hakimi, also present at the press conference on Monday. The time for big phrases is soon over, let’s go to the first aerial ball in the Parisian area.
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