Arne Slot press conference: Verdict on Liverpool's UCL elimination against PSG
On whether he will be able to take satisfaction from Liverpool’s showing in the Champions League when he reflects on the season in May...I am feeling disappointed about being knocked out. I do feel in the end of the season, it does matter how we presented ourselves in Europe. I just said, we were not in the Champions League last season and this season we really showed ourselves. We can be proud of what we did. We won seven games in a row and then we played with our substitutes and lost against PSV. I think we played last week not our best game but today we saw a completely different Liverpool. We go out in a way that I think has impressed Europe.It is something now to take into consideration about how much worth it is to end up first in the league table if you can face Paris Saint-Germain in the next round. It is what it is. Maybe I am [speaking] too soon now but maybe it would be more fair that after the round in between, the one that wins the league table plays against the team that is lowest position after the teams have played. But that is also because we were so unlucky to play Paris Saint-Germain because we could have also gone to the other side of the draw. In the end, if you want to win the tournament you have to beat teams like Paris Saint-Germain and that’s what we didn’t do today after an incredible first 90 minutes of football from us.On whether PSG were fresher than Liverpool in extra-time and if that was due to the demands of Premier League football...I don’t think the last thing [Premier League football] has any influence on that. I think in the second half of normal time we looked fresher and better. There was only one team, in my opinion... I was waiting for us to score a goal, except for the last three or four minutes when [Khvicha] Kvaratskhelia got the free-kick and hit one just over the bar. Maybe these were the only two times they had a shot on target in the second half; we had a header against the post. These are the margins we talk about. I think Mo [Salah] had a shot cleared off the line [and] so many set-pieces we had. We came really close, but I have to give credit to Paris Saint-Germain as well because if you have to play in this stadium with these fans against such a strong Liverpool team and you’re able to get a 1-0 over the line after 90 minutes, then you have to be a very, very, very good team to be able to do so.
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