Paris Saint-Germain will have to achieve a performance that no club has ever managed in 39 attempts against Liverpool if they continue on Tuesday evening to the quarterfinals of the Champions League.
The Runaway Premier League leaders, who have a 15-point advantage compared to Arsenal with nine games, take a slim benefit in the crucial Champions League-Tweede stage against the French champions after a dramatic 1-0 victory last week.
The first stage, described by Liverpool legend Jamie Carragher as 'one of the biggest robberies you will ever see in football', saw Arne Slot's Side Escape Paris with a narrow lead thanks to the replacement Harvey's 87th-minute the Reds.
French newspapers played the chances of PSG to continue on Tuesday to the quarterfinals in Anfield, where L'Equipe burned the task of 'mission as possible' and it stated that the Ligue 1 champions had every opportunity to 'overthrow the Reds in their own' Kingdom 'after an impressive representation against them last week.
However, history would tell French media to hinder their expectations, because Liverpool never lost a draw in a European competition after Triumphing in a first stage.
Slot would like to make the 40th time on Tuesday evening that this took place in the rich European history of Liverpool, with PSG's trip to Anfield only five days before the huge Carabao Cup final of the club against Newcastle in Wembley.
To make things in front of Luis Enrique, Liverpool also won each of their last four European competitions in Anfield, with Bologna, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Madrid and PSV Eindhoven there during the Champions League group phase.
Liverpool will undoubtedly need a more impressive version on Tuesday than during the first stage in Paris, with Reds -goalkeeper Alisson Becker made one of the largest versions of his career.
PSG had 27 shots on the two of Liverpool before the winner of Elliott sent the French side to the frustrating defeat in the first stage, forced to make a series of amazing saves to make the will of Bradley Barcola, Ousmane Dembele, KhvaRatskhelia-Opval.
Although the loss was difficult to swallow, PSG's lively representation last week gave the French media much confidence for the second stage.
'Beautiful last week, despite the defeat, PSG knew how he could keep hope. In Anfield on Tuesday evening, Parisians seem to be able to overthrow Liverpool in their kingdom, 'L'Equipe wrote on their front valve.
'[It is] The moment for PSG to reveal itself to itself and the world.
'The boys of Liverpool can spoil themselves to say what the substance of the first leg was, but in their eyes the naked truth is that they had not expected it, and they did not imagine that they will be run over to such relationships.
“In most areas that matter, PSG were far above red.”
In the 16 games that Liverpool played against French teams in Anfield, the Reds won 13, pulled once and lost twice – with those defeats that met Marseille in 2008 and Lyon in 2009.
The last time Liverpool, however, met a Ligue 1-side in a knockout draw, they were beaten 3-1 and lost against Lille in the last 16 of the Europa League in 2010.
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