Instead, less than a minute into his cameo, Elliott was clinically dispatching past Gianluigi Donnarumma with his first touch and giving the visiting Reds a first-leg lead they simply did not deserve.

PSG dominated for large swathes and had Alisson Becker not been in inspired form - the sort that has his supporters champion him as the world's best - then the Ligue 1 leaders would be heading to Merseyside with the sort of lead that might have proven beyond even Liverpool at Anfield in the Champions League.



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"Probably [the best performance] of my life I think!" was how Alisson himself candidly described it.

The manager was telling us how hard it would be to play against PSG, how good they are with the ball, we had to be ready to suffer, so when you see the clips as well you know what is coming, so much quality."

But perhaps, for all the stunning saves and vital interventions from Alisson himself, it was the inability of Donnarumma down the other end to keep out a rare Reds shot that really hammered home just how good the Brazil international is

It would be even simpler to give full credit to the match-winner Elliott, whose first season under his new boss has not quite gone to plan as of yet.

But it was Alisson whose world-class status was truly justified here and the No.1 was the toast of the travelling fans at full-time as they belted out his name after keeping his 22nd clean sheet in Europe for the Reds