Arne Slot calls Liverpool’s UCL exit vs PSG ‘best game’ he’s experienced

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Liverpool head coach Arne Slot hailed his team’s Champions League second-leg clash with Paris Saint-Germain as the “best game of football” he has ever been part of, despite their heartbreaking exit on penalties.

After securing a 1-0 victory in the first leg in Paris courtesy of Harvey Elliott’s late strike, Liverpool saw their advantage erased at Anfield when Ousmane Dembélé’s goal leveled the tie on aggregate.

In the decisive penalty shootout, PSG emerged victorious as Gianluigi Donnarumma denied both Darwin Núñez and Curtis Jones before Désiré Doué confidently converted the winning spot-kick.

“It was the best game of football I was ever involved in,” Slot told reporters after the match (via espn.co.uk) “I don’t have the history that Liverpool has as a manager but it was two teams at an incredible level. It was an incredible intensity in the first 25 minutes.

“I also remember the first 25 against Manchester City at home and the first 25 against Real Madrid but this was unbelievable, what we showed in the first 25. But I looked at the scoreboard and we were 1-0 down.

“Over 90 minutes, I don’t think we deserved to lose this game of football. Over 180 minutes, maybe it was deserved that we went to extra time. In extra time, I thought maybe PSG were a bit better than us, and then it comes down to penalties and we lost.”

Liverpool finished top of the Champions League league phase, winning seven of eight games, and have also lost just once in the Premier League this season to surge 15 points clear at the top of the table.