PSG prove their class and that not even Anfield has an infinite capacity for miracles | Jonathan Wilson

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But it was not enough.Really this tie was decided in the first leg last week – which arguably would have been true even had Liverpool got back into it, if only on the grounds that PSG had not racked up the lead their superiority suggested they should have.Liverpool came closer than it had seemed likely they would. They arguably put PSG’s defence under more pressure than they had last season, even if the 4-0 aggregate looks far worse than that penalty shootout defeat.

They got a round further than they had last season. But there wouldn’t be many who would describe this season as an improvement for Liverpool.This was one of Liverpool’s better performances of recent weeks.

And perhaps it would have been different but for the incident a minute before that when Hugo Ekitiké, Liverpool’s liveliest player in the early minutes, slipped under no pressure and seemed to damage his achilles. There were a couple of glimpses of Rio Ngumoha’s dancing feet, and one effort cutting in from the left saved well low down by Safnonov but he had barely got going when Ousmane Dembélé finished the tie off.Quite apart from their movement and interplay, there is a tremendous decisiveness about PSG in front of goal, which is something Liverpool have lacked all season.Anfield did its best but, ultimately, it cannot make a disjointed team down on its luck beat the European champions.