Arne Slot said that Liverpool played the game of their lives, but still deposited from the Champions League.
Liverpool duo Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones had both saved their penalties by PSG Hero Keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma in the shoot-out. It ended in the heartache for Liverpool, but Slot insisted that it was good luck on his players because they delivered a brilliant achievement in a European thriller.
Liverpool Boss Slot said: “It was the best football game I have ever been involved in. I don't have Liverpool's management experience. But it was an incredible version and I don't think we deserved to lose in 90 minutes.
“Of course it was a shock, but if you have to go out, go to one of the best teams in the world. I hope that every fan all over the world hoped that the game would continue. It is very bad luck to finish the top of the Champions League table and then to be confronted with Paris Saint Germain. “
Liverpool duo Ibrahima-Konate and Trent Alexander-Arnold Trend both wounded and Slot is worried about the Carabao Cup final on Sunday.
Slot added: “Ibrahima had to come out, but I think that was tiredness, but it didn't look good for Trent. We will have to see now. “
Liverpool -captain Virgil van Dijk said: “It was a very intensely great football game, I am also thinking of being part of it. It was completely for Liverpool and what we showed in Paris and unfortunately were on punishments and that is the reality.
“I think we have created dangerous moments in the first half and they also have the quality, and then it comes down to punishment.
“It is part of football, I told the boys, you can of course be disappointed because we are out of the competition, but getting up and preparing for the next challenge, a nice at the weekend.
“I think we were pretty good today, and you want to go as far as possible, but we knew that if we pulled PSG, it would be very difficult. We saw in Paris when we struggled, but we won, and today we saw a very good Liverpool side, but we are out of the competition.
“Today from the first second and then extra time, when fatigue enters into force for both parties, it becomes more open, but especially regular time, we have shown a very good game.
“We have been able to talk about the game for years, but we are out of competition, that is the reality.”
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