Why the sequel to Arne Slot’s favourite tie could spell doom for Liverpool

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If sequels can be worse than the inferior, this threatens to be more painful; for Slot, anyway.Liverpool exited the Champions League to PSG last year, but on penalties. They posted a tally almost twice as high over 210 minutes against Liverpool last season and scored just once.But the aesthete and the attacker in Slot savoured the quality in the double header against Luis Enrique’s team last season.

PSG’s tactics – “press, press, press”, in his words – are very different.Arne Slot’s Liverpool face Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League quarter-finals (AFP via Getty Images)Enrique had claimed it was “impossible” there was a favourite in a rematch. It arguably had greater consequences than that, though.PSG’s Anfield win, just the fifth reverse of Slot’s reign, has proved the first of 20 defeats Liverpool have suffered in 59 games.

Now we have to show that mentality again.”Slot called on Liverpool to draw on their rich history to overcome PSG (Reuters)It has been apparent at times. But first for the Parc des Princes and the risk that Paris Saint-Germain against Liverpool might not be Slot’s kind of football.