For a year and more, Arne Slot has often harked back to what he frequently describes as the best tie has been involved in. “My football is Paris Saint-Germain v Liverpool, Liverpool v Paris Saint-Germain,” he said in January. Now he gets to relive and revisit it. If sequels can be worse than the original, this threatens to be more painful; for Slot, anyway.
Liverpool exited the Champions League to PSG last year, but on penalties. Now that might seem a respectable, acceptable outcome. The European champions beat Chelsea 8-2 on aggregate in the last round; Slot, who regularly notes that opponents outperform their xG against Liverpool, may note they did so with an expected goals of just 2.23. They posted a tally almost twice as high over 210 minutes against Liverpool last season and scored just once.
