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

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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, some times 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.”Slot claimed he had no issue with Van Dijk’s analysis of the City defeat and: “It was good that the captain has a strong and firm reaction after a game like that. At 3-0 and 4-0 we still had a few chances but this not our standards that we lose 4-0 against City.“We still believe in ourselves.

We had a lot of good games this season. We wanted it to be better but we still have things to play for.