PSG Better, beware – Liverpool is out for blood!
That is the position of the former Anfield star John Aldridge, who is perplexed perplex and downright furious with some of the sounds from Paris after the last week of last week of last week.
In reality, the men of Luis Enrique were the better team at night and few would have argued if they had claimed the benefit. But a mix of poor finish and the brilliant Alisson Becker, plus Harvey Elliott's late quiet finish, the men of Arne Slot handed over a smash and sees victory.
Luis Enrique claimed that it was “unfair” and a number of PSG players insisted that they had earned the victory, that Anfield has no fear and that they are sure that they can turn things around on Merseyside. What Aldridge is not all the best about.
“When I heard the comments of the PSG players and manager after the first stage, the arrogance of them met me,” he says in his Echo column in Liverpool. “You watch a club that has never won a big trophy, so to come and say what they did after the game …
“They should have won, but they didn't do that. We bought them. And they have been so disrespectful to us and Anfield.
'And I hope that the fans respond on Wednesday evening and the players win their personal fights. We will play better, we will pass it on better. And when we win our personal fights, we win the game because we are a better team than they do.
“What they have said is like a red piece against a bull. I look forward to tomorrow, of course, but if I was a player or the manager, I would smoke. I would like to go out and really show them on Wednesday evening.
“They gave Arne Slot a free team conversations. I did it at Tranmere when we played Bolton in the semi-final of the League Cup. It was huge for us to come to Wembley, small Tranmer Rovers. We went to Bolton, won 1-0 and played very well.
“I didn't have a team conversation. I just said he said that, that's what he said, that's what he said. There you go, it's up to you. In the first 20 minutes we were 2-0 up. Game over. We having them.
“The players will talk about what PSG players have said in the dressing room. Virgil is the one who will pass it on to them.
“So you win fights, don't let them bully you, don't let them get the best of you. There are three or four really crucial fights in this game. We have to win our fights. Especially in midfield.
“We can't be worse than last week. That is as bad as I have seen and I was Goobsmacked, we won 1-0. Imagine we play well!
The last few games, we have not been busy with it, but if we played the way we did against Man City of Real Madrid, we beat them. They are a good team, but we made them look better than they are. They have a number of brilliant players.
“The crowd will contribute, I am pretty sure. And PSG will not know what has been struck to them.”
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