Slot: If Liverpool don't lift it we'll get PSG pummelling

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Virgil van Dijk accused the team of giving up and apologised to fans after a defeat that has increased the pressure ahead of Liverpool's challenging Champions League quarter-final first leg away to holders PSG. "I can tell you, if we have the 20 minutes we had at City, if we have them tomorrow evening here, we will again concede four goals because these players over here know how to act if we are having 20 minutes like that," the Liverpool manager said.

Erling Haaland gave Liverpool the runaround in their Cup tie "If not, it’s going to be a really hard night again, like it was last year where we completely deserved to lose 4-0 over here or maybe more. In the 85th minute we scored a goal and it was almost like this was a robbery." Alisson Becker’s inspired display between the sticks saved his side that night, but the goalkeeper is injured for Wednesday’s meeting, ahead of which Van Dijk’s eye-catching comments were put to Slot.

"But I think it’s also good from a captain that he has a strong and firm reaction after a game like that and hopefully it’s not only immediately after the game, but we can, as a team, show a strong and firm reaction tomorrow evening." Liverpool are boosted at PSG by the return of Alexander Isak to the fold after 15 weeks on the sidelines. "Since he’s with us now, we do think that we can get a performance out of him now, but not to start." Listen to the RTÉ Soccer podcast on Apple Podcasts, Spotify or wherever you get your podcasts.