IT’S A STEAL
Not since Danny Ocean assembled a crack outfit of specialist rogues to rob three Vegas casinos in one evening has an 11-strong gang attempted a heist more audacious than that successfully pulled off by the footballers of Liverpool at Parc des Princes on Wednesday night. Not just beaten, but soundly hammered in every available metric apart from the only one that matters, Arne Slot’s hapless side were outrun, outfought, outpassed and quite obviously outclassed by a Paris Saint-Germain side that didn’t so much huff and puff in their attempts to blow their visitors’ house down, as harness the power of 10,000 hurricanes only to meet a lanky wall of heroically stubborn, luminous yellow resistance in the form of Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson. In recording nine saves, at least three of them absolute worldies, the Brazilian denied Ousmane Dembélé, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (twice) and Désiré Doué, among others, before deciding to Get It Launched and set up the only goal of a wild game in which Harvey Elliott scored with Liverpool’s solitary shot on target.
