Alexander Isak plan backfires as next Liverpool evolution clear - 5 talking points vs PSG

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This is what we spotted, with Hugo Ekitike's injury ultimately proving costly.Alexander Isak couldn't make an impact for Liverpool.(Image: Paul ELLIS / AFP via Getty Images)ANFIELD, LIVERPOOL // For all that Liverpool battled well and threatened to move ahead, PSG had enough to hang in there — and then Ousmane Dembele put the French side ahead.Dembele and Virgil van Dijk will both feel they should have scored in the first half. Here are the five things Liverpool.com spotted as the game unfolded.READ MORE: Dominik Szoboszlai apologizes to Liverpool fans after controversial gesture toward themREAD MORE: PSG's touching gesture to Hillsborough victims and Diogo Jota before Champions League gameAnfield rises to Virgil van Dijk requestVirgil van Dijk said the Reds had to "remember we are Liverpool".

There were appreciative claps at the final whistle; at times this season, there have been boos.Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk(Image: Photo by Carl Recine/Getty Images)Next Liverpool plan made to waitPreparations for next season appear to have begun. And given Isak could only play a half, with Cody Gakpo coming on in his spot, that trio was dismantled almost as soon as it had reunited.Arne Slot and Alexander Isak during Inter Milan vs Liverpool in the Champions League.(Image: Emmanuele Ciancaglini/Ciancaphoto Studio/Getty Images)Mohamed Salah's final Champions League gameIn the March international break, of course, Salah confirmed that he would be leaving Liverpool — but there was no suggestion of this being a farewell tour that would indulge him.Here, the Egyptian was reduced to being an option off the bench again, with a new-look trio (Isak-Ekitike-Wirtz) — who had only played with each other for 88 minutes before this, and never from the start — given the go-ahead from the off.For each of them, this was a first real taste of a proper European night at Anfield.

He looked desperate to impress, but perhaps too so in moments.Liverpool forward Mohamed Salah.(Image: Tnani Badreddine/DeFodi via Getty Images)Liverpool midfield energizedThis was the most energy that Alexis Mac Allister has had for some time, no doubt rising to the occasion and feeding off the crowd. Ultimately, though, Liverpool had given itself too much to do in the second half of the tie with an experienced PSG group able to come through.When Dembele scored his first, the tiredness set in.