PSG ramp up the style to leave Slot and Liverpool looking like yesterday’s men | Barney Ronay

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Pleased that they only lost 2-0 against a Paris Saint-Germain team who were able to approach this first leg carelessly, to showboat a little, to approach the scoring of a goal in the style of a temperamental high-end Parisian pastry chef, always trying to create the perfect deconstructed mille-feuille tour de vanille infinite, when all you really need is a biscuit.And pleased at the end that rather than passively aggressively taunting the travelling fans, Dominik Szoboszlai instead walked off down the tunnel alone while his teammates wandered over in pursuit of Arne Slot, out there pointedly making nice, that lovely soft round head gleaming a little sadly under the Paris lights like a weak spring moon.This will qualify as an improvement. This team should always have been this good.The issue really is the way PSG were so much better, by highlighting the extent of Liverpool’s regression, the lack of pattern and structure in the team.

What does a Liverpool goal look like anyway? What is the complete Slot 2.0 Liverpool performance?Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scores a spectacular solo goal for PSG’s second of the night.

And by the end 2-0 felt like something to be pleased about, given Liverpool had come to Paris with fear in their hearts after the evisceration by Manchester City, like a boxer sat on his stool, legs already wobbled, dreading the bell. And from here Liverpool will contemplate next week, not so much with hope, but with hope of saving some sense of themselves, of still looking like a team.