PSG comes out Liverpool by winning the Goals war – Liberation

Paris-SG has surfed on Anfield Road. Beaten (0-1) on the outburst of the princes by FC Liverpoolwhich put them in a precarious position to say the least, the champions of France in title fought a deep, courageous, constant fight, which earned them the leader from the Premier League to the penalty shootout (1-0, 4-1) at the end of the night. The superiority of the capital's club was not discussed on the two meetings, no more on the lawn of Liverpool than in Paris. This Tuesday, March 11, during the two hours of match as during the penalty shootout, Gianluigi Donnarumma was the big man of the evening, returning the unfair criticism that overwhelmed him after the first leg in the limbo. Courageous on the countless centers that the Reds rained on his goal, a great leader when the boat tank (and he sometimes tank very, very strong), the Italian porter held his team on his back.

If FC Liverpool had let the first leg, undergoing Parisian assaults, his coach Arne Slot had not changed his composition a week later: the same eleven. However, Parisians have not seen the same team tumble down to Anfield's lawn. Mohamed Salah and his teammates attacked the floor, without leaving a corner of the field in the shadows, to multiply the situations in the surface of the Parisian goalkeeper, saved on his line by Nuno Mendes (4th) from the first gusts. It will suffice for a ball, from one, so that the champions of France overthrow the table: Ousmane Dembélé at the start and on arrival, Bradley Barcola in the right and the Liverpuldian defense which takes its feet in the carpet, Ibrahima Konaté serving involuntarily the tricolor winger who finished in the empty goal (0-1, 12th).

The reverse mirror of the first leg: the less you put pressure on the opposing defense, the less you gain duels in the midfield, the more you mark. This good fortune, the Parisians will deserve it afterwards. She earned her weight in intensity to brake the opposing initiatives, compensation to make a beaten partner to replace, of quality also in the outlet outings to force Konaté and others to monitor their own goal, the Reds passing several times (16th by Dembélé, 31st by the same, 35th by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia) on the edge of the Correctional released full iron.

1-0 to lemons for visitors and breathtaking data: not the slightest Parisian fault during the initial period. A level of control which, given the speed printed in the game, says a lot about what Parisian coach Luis Enrique has been able to draw from his men. At this moment, the general idea is that Parisians have their opponents well in hand. The English will thus work to loosen the embrace. By creating a little tactical uncertainty already, modifying the height of their defensive block so that Dembélé, Barcola or Vitinha see their bearings blur.

And by attracting the Parisian team more frankly, as if to make characterist character and a kind of expressionist force speak of the mastery of the champions of France. The time for Donnarumma to make the albatros on a head of Luis Diaz (55th), for the Ecuadorian defender of PSG Willian Pacho to scoop everything that arises and for the public to scold each time a red striker drops into the surface and the storm passes, like that of the start of the match. However, it does not leave the match in the same order. Parisian attackers no longer hurt. More active than their adversaries since the start of the meeting, the circles run out of steam. The two teams slipped to the extension thus, far below the explosive pace which had worn them during the first hour.

And she saw the players of Liverpool die in turn, letting Déé Déé pass some chills in the spans of Anfield and putting their own destiny in the hands of their Brazilian goalkeeper Alisson Becker, in anticipation of the penalty shootout. Two signs will then come to the aid of Parisians: the right to open the session (never bad), and to shoot in front of their own supporters. Vitinha, Gonçalo Ramos, Dembélé and Goué succeeded, Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones missed theirs. Aston Villa or FC Bruges await PSG in the quarter -finals.