Liverpool boss Arne Slot explained Tuesday's Champions League shootout loss on penalties to Paris St-Germain as "the very best activity of football I've been involved with", In spite of his aspect exiting the Opposition Subsequently.

Following shedding last week's initially leg 1-0 in Paris, the site visitors levelled the tie at Anfield on combination owing to Ousmane Dembele's 12th-minute strike.

Liverpool had a good amount of prospects to score on their own, but the game went to overtime and was selected location-kicks, where PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma saved from Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones, prior to Need Doue fired household to seal a four-one accomplishment.

"It had been the most beneficial activity of soccer I've at any time been involved with," Slot explained on Amazon Primary.

"It was an incredible overall performance, especially if you compare it with past 7 days. Probably we ran from luck because the margins were so small.

"We performed the proper match, apart from scoring a goal. It absolutely was just like Paris final week, if they played the right activity and did not score. After which you can in overtime, they had been maybe a bit much better."

Defeat leaves Liverpool that has a domestic double to Perform for.

Which has a 15-place lead at the highest, the Reds are all but specific of profitable the Premier League, even though they encounter Newcastle from the Carabao Cup last at Wembley on Sunday.

"We ended up very good and you would like to go as significantly as possible, but we understood whenever we drew Paris that it absolutely was going to be very hard," admitted Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk.

"In Paris, we struggled but we gained. Now we observed an excellent Liverpool facet, but we are out in the competition."

Scotland left-back Andy Robertson explained the main target will change to Newcastle now as he additional: "It wasn't meant to generally be and we need to dust ourselves down. We generally bounce back, there is a lot of drained legs in there. Cup finals, we enjoy them, and that's the biggest match."

PSG manager Luis Enrique felt Liverpool have been unlucky as he said: "The two with the groups need to Visit the future period.

"They played better than us listed here, but I think my workforce at Anfield, in the Distinctive stadium showed great temperament and character.

"I think it reveals Obviously the workforce we've been."