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When was the last time a side headed to Anfield feeling supremely confident it would progress from a European knockout tie against Liverpool?

Perhaps Barcelona in 2019, when a side full of serial Champions League winners and the world’s greatest-ever player made the journey to Merseyside holding a three-goal advantage from the first leg.

To say the French champions are confident of beating Liverpool is putting it mildly.



“We're going to go there, we're going to play a great game, we're going to score and we're going to go through, I'm sure of it.”

Those views were echoed elsewhere in the PSG ranks.

It may be a more rounded and more resilient team than those which have preceded it, but PSG’s Champions League scars are still evident.

For all its dominance against Liverpool, that PSG only recorded an expected goals of 1.78 indicates it did struggle to get beyond Virgil van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate.

Even Slot hinted at that on Friday when referencing how often Real Madrid secures a result in the Champions League without performing to its maximum

Sceptics may point to the fact that the Reds have actually won just one of its last five Champions League knockout matches at home, was blown away by Atalanta last year on English soil and has lost a Champions League game at Anfield in each of its last four seasons - but that would be to ignore the catalogue of memorable European nights under the lights in Liverpool.

There’s an energy, an unquantifiable force that accompanies nights at Anfield