Arne Slot makes bold 'best game' claim after Liverpool crash out of Champions League to PSG
The Liverpool boss was still full of praise for his side despite their defeat on penalties, as PSG converted all four of their kicks following misses from Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones
by Mark Jones · The MirrorArne Slot said Liverpool's Champions League defeat to Paris Saint-Germain was the best game of football he's ever been involved in despite the Reds crashing out of the competition.
Liverpool lost on penalties after Ousmane's Dembele's goal levelled the tie, with substitutes Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones both seeing their kicks saved by Gianluigi Donnarumma, with PSG scoring all four of their kicks.
Slot, whose side are 15 points clear at the top of the Premier League and play against Newcastle in the Carabao Cup final on Sunday, said: ""It was the best game of football where I was ever involved in. Incredible performance, especially compared to last week. First 20/25 minutes, we were all over them, created chance after chance and all of a sudden we were 1-0 down. Probably it was almost the opposite, maybe we ran out of luck because the margins were so small tonight.
"After 90 minutes it felt we deserved more than being 1-0 down. I was waiting for us to score. I don't think the second half, apart from the last five minutes, when they threatened us once or twice. We played the perfect game except from scoring goals, it was the same for PSG last week when they played the perfect game and didn't score and it happened to us today."
Reds captain Virgil van Dijk said: "It was a very intense great game of football, I think to be part of it as well. It was totally there for Liverpool and what we showed in Paris and unfortunately were out on penalties and that is the reality.
"I think in the first half we created dangerous moments and they have the quality as well, and then it comes down to penalties.
"It's part of football, I said to the guys, obviously, you can be disappointed because we're out of the competition, but chin up and get ready for the next challenge, a beautiful one on the weekend.
"I think we were pretty good today as well, and you want to go as far as possible, but we knew when we drew PSG it was going to be very difficult. We saw in Paris when we struggled but we won, and today we saw a very good Liverpool side but we're out of the competition.
"Today from the first second and then extra time, when fatigue kicks in for both sides, it becomes more open but especially regular time, we showed a very good game. We can speak about the game for ages but we're out of the competition, that is the reality."
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