Mohamed Salah was one of the two Liverpool players criticized by the French departure L'Equipe for his performance in the impressive 1-0 victory of the Reds over Paris Saint-Germain.
A look at the notoriously hard grades of the publication will make you believe that Arne Slot's side returned to Merseyside on Thursday morning with the tails between the legs.
In fact, another look at the final statistics would reinforce this statement. But notably, the Premier League leaders won an unlikely victory in the French capital thanks to the brilliance of their goalkeeper Alisson Becker and the impact of the substitute Harvey Elliott.
The PSG had a good value for a two or three goals victory in the first leg of the last draw of the Champions League and had 27 shots at two and three great Liverpool opportunities for the Reds. L'Equipe called the unlikely result and the 'English robbery'.
The unusually poor exhibition stood out better in the performance of Salah who received a 3/10 for The team. The Egyptian, who is enjoying an impressive campaign and is the favorite to win the Golden Ball, could not be imposed on the party and was defended by experts by Nuno Mendes completely.
Salah had only 41 touches, he could not complete any of his two crosses or his long lonely ball. The striker also lost the eight duels and delivered the possession of 16 times.
Mohamed Salah had a rare night to forget in Paris while Liverpool struggled to show a threat of attack against the PSG
Andy Robertson was led by the French talented club variety
The Thursday edition of L'Equipe ran with the headline and the 'English robbery' after the victory of the Reds'
Finally, he hooked in the 86th minute, racing the way for his replacement to score the winner with his first touch 60 seconds later.
The other Red player who will be criticized for the publication was Andy Robertson after he was torn by the PSG assortment of front devastants. Khvicha Kvarathskhelia, Ousmane Dembele and Bradley Barcola turned to torment the captain of Scotland.
The visiting stars with the slightly more favorable qualification of 4/10 included Trent Alexander-Arnold, who was marginally better than his partner again against the merchants of the assumed of the Parisians.
Diogo Jota, Luis Díaz, Dominik Szoboszlai and Ryan Gravenberch were also beaten with figures below the torque after fighting several degrees against the French champions.
The midfielder Alexis Mac Allister received a 5/10, while the Central Defensive Association of Liverpool by Virgil Van Dijk and Ibrahima Konate received six. Konate's rating may have been generous since he was lucky enough not to be fired by a clumsy Tackle on Barkola in the first half.
As expected, L'Equipe recognized Alisson as the best Liverpool player at night and gave the Brazilian a 9/10 for his impressive efforts.
Post-Match, a relieved Alisson said that it had been the best performance of his life, while making time to praise the defensive effort of the team.
“I think it was the best performance of my life,” he told TNT Sports. '(Slot) told us how difficult it would be and we had to be ready to suffer.
Alisson Becker was the Liverpool hero and produces a series of saves to deny the local team
Harvey Elliott left the bank to score the winner of Liverpool with his first touch of the game
Liverpool head, Arne Slot, admitted that the best team lost Tuesday night before receiving the performance of his goalkeeper
'You know what comes with the clips, but we work hard, we give many opportunities.
'Some 1v1, but the most important part is having someone so that the player who is having the opportunity to think more, so my work is easier. All the effort made by the team is incredible.
Slot admitted that the PSG was the best team of the night and said that his team would have been fortunate to escape from the princes parc des with a draw.
“If we had a draw, we would have been lucky,” he said. That is clear to everyone. I think today were the team much better.
'Especially in the first half had many opportunities, three or four major opportunities. In the second half, they were still the best team, they still had many shots in the goal, but they were mainly outside the box. I knew before the game, and I saw again how much quality this team has, and all individual players have.
'All the shots from outside the box that you see with some speed that only comes from the best players, so Alisson still had to make great salvages. We were lucky that the goal was fractionally out of play in the first half. I was very happy that, in difficult circumstances, here the referee was not impressed. That is not always the situation in games out of place. Already, in the game we had opportunities in the transition, but we wait until the last moment and hurt them. ''
The Reds will seek to press their advantage in the second leg in Anfield on Tuesday.