PSG players were reportedly left “shocked” due to the lack of quality from Liverpool in their last-16-drawing game on Wednesday evening, despite the loss of 1-0 at home.
The men of Luis Enrique dominated the match against the Reds with more than 70 percent owned in the Parc des Princes, but the men of Arne Slot still succeeded in a Smash-and-Grab victory by the deceased winner of Harvey Elliott.
PSG will ruin their failures to turn their chances, but now the team is “obsessed with” by making things in the second stage after he has seen Slot's men up close, according to the French outlet l'Equipe.
The same report claims that PSG also felt more at ease against Liverpool than against Arsenal and Bayern Munich in the group stage, after they had lost to both teams.
PSG was also surprised by the observed time of Liverpool during the match in Paris, something that Captain Virgil van Dijk refuted after the game.
The Ligue 1-side had 27 attempts against Liverpool, which is the second record of a team in a Champions League-Knock-out match that did not score and lost.
Alisson was also in excellent form to deny PSG, and made a large number of top councils to keep Liverpool in the game before they hit their deceased winner.
PSG boss Luis Enrique said that the result was “not honest” and promised to play in the same way next week, especially to secure the qualification of the quarterfinals.
“Today it was not about details,” he said. “Alisson had a great game. They only play against us because we didn't let them play.
“In the first five minutes they played better than we did, but only for that. Then it was all about PSG. Nobody saw something else tonight. One team was above the other, we all saw that. Is the result fair? No, the result is not fair.
“We are just a team that has nothing to lose. We go to Liverpool and play exactly as we did today.”
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