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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Rob Smyth

PSG 2-0 Liverpool: Champions League quarter-final, first leg – as it happened

Liverpool UEFA Champions League Arne Slot Parc des Princes Paris Saint-Germain Paris SaintGermain the Parc des Princes
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia toys with the Liverpool back line before slotting home PSG’s second goal.
Khvicha Kvaratskhelia toys with the Liverpool back line before slotting home PSG’s second goal. Photograph: Chris Brunskill/Fantasista/Getty Images

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Match report: Paris Saint-Germain 2-0 Liverpool

Parc des Princes did not witness the rout that even Liverpool might have privately feared but the gulf in quality between Paris Saint-Germain and Arne Slot’s side was laid bare throughout the Champions League quarter-final. Liverpool leave Paris with hope, having arrived with none, but will require a dramatic recovery just to lay a glove on the European champions at Anfield next Tuesday.

A fortunate, deflected strike from Désiré Doué and a superb second from Khvicha Kvaratskhelia gave the holders a deserved first leg advantage and it could so easily have been more. Ousmane Dembélé missed a hat-trick of openings, his final effort striking the outside of a post, while Nuno Mendes and Doué were also guilty of failing to punish vulnerable opponents.

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