So far the sowing. Liverpool's European efforts have not only earned rewards, because Arne Slot and friends are going to Paris on Wednesday to see a team that has been on a disaster.
Lower leaders in Ligue 1, PSG -Gastheer Lille Tonight after a remarkable February in which they scored 32 goals in eight games.
The opposition may have been of a much lower standard than Liverpool, but fresh from beating seven without an answer beyond Stade Briochin in the last eight of the French Cup on Wednesday evening, striker Goncalo Ramos warned: “Every competition is an objective for us.”
Ten days ago they scored another seven against Brest in the Champions League to complete a 10-0 total victory, after they had also beaten five against the same opponents in the competition.
And while the pursuit of a Maiden Champions League remains a difficult for the club of Qatar, head coach Luis Enrique puts a team together instead of a group of individuals in the Kylian Mbappe era post.
The figures speak volumes.
In 38 games in four competitions they have achieved 101 goals and they are on an unbeaten run of 21 games, which win 18 of them, and their only defeats have come to the first phase of the Champions League this season.
And they came across Arsenal, Atletico Madrid and Bayern Munich – Parties that would expect to dispute from the start of the beginning.
Ousmane Dembele, who had previously fallen from the club's hierarchy, has 25 goals and five assists in all competitions. But the big change from previous seasons is how the load is shared.
Bradley Barcola has 16 goals on top of nine assists, Lee Kang-in has six and four, Achraf Hakimi five and 10, Ramos has a dozen goals to his name despite missing the early months of the season because of an ankle injury that required an operation.
“Three goals and an assist are fantastic for me,” he said after a leading role in the Midweek Cup victory. “Some players come back from injuries and nobody is injured, which is good for us.”
Then there is the Wildcard addition of Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, which arrived from Napoli last month and is still adapting to his new environment.
Winning Ligue 1 looks an even more sucking thing than the grip of Liverpool on the Premier League table with a 13 -point lead and an invincible campaign on the cards.
But Enrique will not allow them to be dragged for their biggest test of the season. “You have to be ready and clinical,” he said this week. A statement that can easily be reflected by lock.
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