PSG ramp up the style and leave Slot and Liverpool looking like yesterday’s men | Barney Ronay

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This team should always have been this good.The issue really is the way PSG were so much better, by highlighting the extent of Liverpool’s regression, the lack of pattern and structure in the team. What does a Liverpool goal look like anyway?

What is the complete Slot 2.0 Liverpool performance?The moment of the game was PSG’s second goal on 66 minutes, scored by the sublime, unignorably entertaining Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who took an instant forward pass from João Neves then did three brilliant things in the space of five seconds.First he surged inside two Liverpool players, all elite torque, balance, handling, not really seeming to run or really move his legs, but gliding at annihilating speed. He seems to have semi-tubular legs, ankles as thick as his calves, a mooching, socks-down presence, like the drummer in a 1990s indie band has reluctantly admitted to being the world’s greatest maverick left winger.Arne Slot applauds the Liverpool fans in Paris but this was a chastening night for the manager and his team.

And by the end 2-0 felt like something to be pleased about, given Liverpool had come to Paris with fear in their hearts after the evisceration by Manchester City, like a boxer sat on his stool, legs already wobbled, dreading the bell. And from here Liverpool will contemplate next week, not so much with hope, but with hope of saving some sense of themselves, of still looking like a team.