Liverpool manager Arne Slot described Tuesday's Champions League shootout loss on penalties to Paris St-Germain as "the most beneficial recreation of soccer I have been involved in", Irrespective of his side exiting the Competitiveness Due to this fact.

After losing final week's 1st leg one-0 in Paris, the people levelled the tie at Anfield on combination owing to Ousmane Dembele's twelfth-moment strike.

Liverpool experienced an abundance of prospects to attain them selves, but the sport went to extra time and was selected location-kicks, where by PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma saved from Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones, right before Desire Doue fired home to seal a four-one results.

"It had been the top match of football I have at any time been involved with," Slot mentioned on Amazon Prime.

"It was an unbelievable functionality, particularly if you compare it with past 7 days. Possibly we ran from luck as the margins ended up so modest.

"We played the perfect video game, apart from scoring a objective. It absolutely was just like Paris last 7 days, after they performed an ideal sport and failed to score. After which you can in time beyond regulation, they were it's possible a little bit greater."

Defeat leaves Liverpool with a domestic double to Enjoy for.

Using a fifteen-issue lead at the highest, the Reds are all but sure of winning the Premier League, when they face Newcastle inside the Carabao Cup remaining at Wembley on Sunday.

"We have been very good and you should go as considerably as feasible, but we knew when we drew Paris that it was destined to be very difficult," admitted Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk.

"In Paris, we struggled but we gained. Now we observed a very good Liverpool side, but we are out of the Competitiveness."

Scotland remaining-back Andy Robertson explained the main target will flip to Newcastle now as he added: "It wasn't intended to get and we need to dust ourselves down. We usually bounce back, there is a lots of fatigued legs in there. Cup finals, we appreciate them, and that is the most significant match."

PSG boss Luis Enrique felt Liverpool were being unlucky as he reported: "Both of your teams need to Visit the subsequent stage.

"They performed a lot better than us in this article, but I do think my crew at Anfield, inside a Distinctive stadium showed terrific personality and character.

"I think it demonstrates Plainly the team we are."