Liverpool line-ups for PSG as Jeremie Frimpong and Alexis Mac Allister decisions made

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Liverpool are in Paris this evening to take on Paris Saint-Germain in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, and here's how we think they should line up Chief Liverpool FC Writer, Paul Gorst Liverpool FC correspondent and Mark Jones Liverpool Content Editor - Sport10:33, 08 Apr 2026Updated 10:33, 08 Apr 2026Say what you want about Liverpool's season, they are exactly where they want to be tonight.The Reds are in Paris for the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final against PSG, a tie that provides them with an opportunity to avenge last season's last-16 defeat, even if recent form ensures that plenty of fans aren't exactly overly positive that they can do so.How should Liverpool line up in the French capital though? And I'd be putting my faith in the 4-1-2-1-2 approach that has served Liverpool so well in the competition this season.With Alisson Becker still injured, Giorgi Mamardashvili is in goal.

And I'd go with Jeremie Frimpong at right-back.That's because I want a midfield diamond with Ryan Gravenberch at the base, Dominik Szoboszlai to the right, Florian Wirtz on the left and Alexis Mac Alllister as the most advanced of the quartet.Up top, it's Hugo Ekitike on the left of the front two with Mohamed Salah to the right.My team (4-1-2-1-2): Mamardahsvili; Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch; Szoboszlai, Wirtz; Mac Alllister; Salah, Ekitike.Paul GorstIt will be a welcome sight seeing Alexander Isak out there once more in a Liverpool kit tonight, but the Sweden international can only realistically expect to feature towards the end of the game at Parc des Princes. That means Hugo Ekitike leads the line and Mohamed Salah keeps his place as well.I am going to utilise the 4-2-2-2 formation that Arne Slot has used effectively in the Champions League this season, featuring Florian Wirtz and Dominik Szoboszlai as the most advanced of the four midfielders.

He can help stretch PSG on the counter-attack too if he stays high and wide.At right-back, Jeremie Frimpong can come on to help with counter-attacks with his speed as the match enters its final stages but Joe Gomez is tasked with keeping the star-studded PSG frontline quiet over on that side.My team (4-2-2-2): Mamardashvili; Gomez, Konate, Van Dijk, Robertson; Gravenberch, Mac Allister; Szoboszlai, Wirtz; Salah, Ekitike.Mark JonesPart of me thinks that maybe caution should just be thrown to the wind here. Plenty of people expect Liverpool to lose in Paris, so why not go down swinging?If Arne Slot is to end up leaving his role in the coming weeks and months then he needs to go out his way, and that involves pace on the flanks and, as he so admired from PSG last season, attacking play from full-back.So while I'd initially thought I'd select Joe Gomez and Any Robertson for this one I'll go with Jeremie Frimpong and Milos Kerkez instead, with the pair of them told to look at their opposite numbers Nuno Mendes and Achraf Hakimi - the best full-back duo of the post-peak Robertson and Trent Alexander-Arnold years - and essentially try and copy them.Midfield could well be an issue though given PSG's ability to control that area of the pitch, and so I'd be telling Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister and Dominik Szoboszlai to perform very much as a three as they did last season and to prepare to work their socks off.Florian Wirtz then starts off the left, drifting into the centre, with Mohamed Salah on the right and Hugo Ekitike upfront.My team (4-3-3): Mamardashvili; Frimpong, Konate, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Gravenberch, Mac Allister, Szoboszlai; Salah, Ekitike, Wirtz.