Key occasions
Team information: Isak begins
Alexander Isak begins a Liverpool recreation for the primary time since December, changing Joe Gomez in the one change from the primary leg. Mo Salah and Rio Ngumoha, who scored towards Fulham on the weekend, are on the bench.
PSG are unchanged, as a result of why would you modify that XI?
Liverpool (poss 4-1-3-2) Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch; Szoboszlai, Wirtz, Mac Allister; Isak, Ekitike.
Subs: Woodman, Misciur, Gomez, Jones, Chiesa, Salah, Robertson, Nyoni, Nallo, Ngumoha.
Paris Saint-Germain (4-3-3) Chevalier; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Nuno Mendes; Zaire-Emery, Vitinha, Joao Neves; Doue, Dembele, Kvaratskhelia.
Subs: Chevalier, Marin, Lucas Beraldo, Zabarnyi, Goncalo Ramos, Lee, L Hernandez, Mayulu, Dro Fernandez, Barcola, Mbaye.
Referee Maurizio Mariani (Italy).
Andy Hunter
Arne Slot has stated Liverpool don’t face an unimaginable job towards Paris Saint-Germain however should produce the proper efficiency to beat the European champions within the quarter-finals of the Champions League.
Liverpool require one other stirring Anfield comeback in Tuesday’s second leg to salvage their hopes of silverware having misplaced 2-0 at Parc des Princes final week. PSG have been vastly superior within the first leg and may have received extra comfortably, though their head coach, Luis Enrique, described such discuss as “a trap” and claimed there will likely be “pitfalls” for his workforce at Anfield.
Slot and Dominik Szoboszlai exuded confidence on the pre-match press convention on Monday, with the Liverpool head coach insisting it is not going to be troublesome to instil perception in his gamers for a make-or-break night time at Anfield.
Preamble
Right, the place lets begin? Saint-Etienne 1977, maybe, the primary epic European comeback at Anfield. Maybe Auxerre 1991 or Dortmund 2016, when Liverpool made a mockery of apparently insurmountable deficits. “The stadium seemed to know what would happen,” winced Dortmund’s supervisor Thomas Tuchel after Dejan Lovren scored an injury-time winner. “It was as if it was meant to be.”
Barcelona 2019 is the final word, a 4-0 win with a weakened workforce that also blows the thoughts seven years on. Those precedents – and the information that Anfield is a singular microclimate – are sources of hope for Liverpool as they try for an additional wonderful comeback towards Paris Saint-Germain tonight.
There’s additionally a nagging concern that the one related precedent is final week’s first leg, when PSG ran Liverpool ragged and may have received by greater than 2-0. Even the staunchest Kopite would possibly concede that PSG are a category aside, and all logic says they’ll cruise right into a semi-final towards Bayern Munich and Real Madrid.
Oh, only one other thing: logic and European nights at Anfield don’t all the time see eye to eye.
Kick-off 8pm.
