Mohamed Salah was left in tears when Liverpool collapsed from the Champions League.
Liverpool pulled 1-1 with Paris Saint-Germain aggregated after the winner of Harvey Elliott in the first and Ousmane Dembele's goal in Anfield, but it was the side of Luis Enrique who eventually reached the quarterfinals after a dramatic shootout.
Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones both saw their mockers saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma, while Vitinha, Goncalo Ramos, Dembele and Desire Doue all the fines of PSG scored. And Salah struggled to control his emotions after Liverpool was eliminated, with the attacker in tears.
The competition could be Salah's last European appearance for Liverpool, because he no longer has a contract in the summer and it is still to see whether he will sign an extension. Reds Captain Virgil van Dijk is in the same boat as Salah and he was also very disappointed about the result.
“It was a very intensely great football game, I am also thinking of being part of it,” Van Dijk told Amazon Prime. “It was all for Liverpool and what we showed in Paris and unfortunately were on penalties 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 said to the boys, of course you can be disappointed because we are out of the competition, but chin up and prepare me for the next challenge, a nice 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 centuries, but we are out of the competition, that is reality.”
PSG will now be confronted with Aston Villa or Club Brugge in the quarterfinals and the side of Unai Emery are the favorites to continue after they have won the first stage of their last 16 collision 3-1 thanks to goals by Leon Bailey and Marco Asensio and his own goal of Brandon Mechele.
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