Arne Slot backs his Liverpool side to go ‘toe-to-toe’ with PSG in Champions League

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He challenged his players to “stand up again” and respond to the City embarrassment immediately.“It’s not the first time we have 15-20 minutes in a game where we don’t play our best football and it is not the first time we immediately get punished by a goal, sometimes one or two,” Slot said of Saturday’s collapse. I have to say it like that, because of their quality and the way they are managed.“But I can tell you that if we have the 20 minutes we had at City here, we will again concede four goals because these PSG players know how to act if we are having a 20-minute period like that.

Last year [in the Champions League last 16] we completely deserved to lose 4-0 here or maybe more, but that is the beauty of football that we scored a goal in the 85th minute and it was almost like this was a robbery.”Alexander Isak is expected to be named among Liverpool’s substitutes after four months out. We have to have a strong and firm reaction too.” That sentiment was not shared by Wirtz, however, who claimed to be unaware of Van Dijk’s comment about the team giving up at a certain point against City and in disagreement with it.“I didn’t know about this, that he said this, but I think I would not agree directly because we still tried to create chances to turn the game around,” said the Germany international.

At 3-0 and 4-0 we still had a few chances but this is not our standards that we lose 4-0 against City.“We still believe in ourselves. We wanted it to be better but we still have things to play for.