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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Sport
John Brewin

The curious case of Arne Slot’s Paris romance and Liverpool’s slump

Mohamed Salah controls the ball as PSG's Vitinha slides in during Champions League match
Mohamed Salah (left) will be hoping to re-capture some of last season’s form for Liverpool in this year’s Bigger Cup tie against PSG. Photograph: Oli Scarff/AFP/Getty Images

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Arne Slot tries his best not to choke up when he talks of last year’s meeting between Liverpool and PSG. “I hope every fan around the world was hoping this game wouldn’t stop because it was incredible,” he blubbed in March 2025. His team had just lost on penalties to the soon-to-be Bigger Cup winners. “It was the best game of football that I was ever involved in.” If the Slot regime comes to its end this summer, with a significant groundswell of opinion among Kopites nodding in that direction, then it is curious he keeps returning to an infamous European night at Anfield which may well prove the beginning of the end. A few days later, Liverpool deservedly lost a Fizzy Cup final to a much more inspired Newcastle. Things have never quite been the same since, despite a 20th league title being claimed in April.

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