Liverpool manager Arne Slot described Tuesday's Champions League shootout decline on penalties to Paris St-Germain as "the most beneficial match of football I've been linked to", Irrespective of his facet exiting the Competitiveness Consequently.
After dropping previous week's 1st leg one-0 in Paris, the visitors levelled the tie at Anfield on aggregate as a result of Ousmane Dembele's twelfth-moment strike.
Liverpool experienced plenty of odds to attain them selves, but the sport went to additional time and was decided on spot-kicks, in which PSG keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma saved from Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones, in advance of Drive Doue fired home to seal a 4-1 success.
"It was the very best sport of football I have at any time been linked to," Slot reported on Amazon Key.
"It absolutely was an unbelievable effectiveness, particularly if you Assess it with very last week. Perhaps we ran out of luck as the margins ended up so smaller.
"We played the ideal recreation, except for scoring a intention. It absolutely was just like Paris final week, if they played the ideal game and failed to score. And after that in extra time, they ended up possibly a little bit improved."
Defeat leaves Liverpool that has a domestic double to Perform for.
With a fifteen-level guide at the highest, the Reds are all but certain of successful the Leading League, although they face Newcastle from the Carabao Cup final at Wembley on Sunday.
"We have been very good and you need to go as significantly as feasible, but we understood after we drew Paris that it was gonna be very difficult," admitted Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk.
"In Paris, we struggled but we received. These days we noticed an excellent Liverpool facet, but we're out on the Competitors."
Scotland still left-again Andy Robertson said the focus will flip to Newcastle now as he added: "It wasn't intended to become and we have to dust ourselves down. We normally bounce back, there's a number of exhausted legs in there. Cup finals, we delight in them, and that is the most significant activity."
PSG boss Luis Enrique felt Liverpool had been unfortunate as he reported: "Both equally on the groups deserve to Visit the future phase.
"They performed much better than us right here, but I believe my staff at Anfield, inside of a special stadium showed excellent character and character.
"I believe it reveals Evidently the team we are."