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Paris Saint-Germain will have to achieve a feat that no club has achieved in 39 attempts against Liverpool if they will advance to the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Tuesday night.
The fugitive leaders of the Premier League, who feel with a 15-point advantage over the Arsenal with nine games for the end, have a thin advantage in the crucial second stage of the Tuesday Champions League against the French champions after snatching a dramatic 1-0 victory last week.
The first section, which was described by the legend of Liverpool Jamie Carragher as “one of the greatest robberies he has ever seen in football,” he saw next to Arne Slot escape from Paris with a close advantage thanks to the substitute Harvey Elliott 87 minutes of strike, but the reds were indenicly second than the contest against a dominant PSG.
French newspapers played PSG's possibilities to advance to the quarterfinals in Anfield on Tuesday, with L'Equipe marking the 'possible mission' task and insisting that the champions of Ligue 1 had all the possibilities of 'overthrow' to the reds in their own 'kingdom' after an impressive exhibition last week.
However, the story would tell the French media to hinder their expectations, since Liverpool has never lost the tie in a European competition after triumphing in a first leg.
Slot will be anxious to do on Tuesday night the 40th time this happened in the rich European history of Liverpool, with PSG's journey to Anfield only five days before the huge final of the Club Carabao Cup against Newcastle in Wembley.
Liverpool goes to the second stage crucial on Tuesday in Anfield with a close 1-0 advantage over PSG
'One of the greatest robberies you will ever see in football': the PSG dominated the first leg, but it was left to the rue that lost the opportunities after Liverpool snatched a late winner in the Parc de Princes
The PSG will have to achieve a feat that no club has achieved in 39 attempts against Liverpool if they will advance to the quarterfinals of the Champions League on Tuesday night
To make things worse for Luis Enrique's team, Liverpool has also won each of its last four European games in Anfield, beating Bayer, Bayer Leverkusen, Real Madrid and PSV Eindhoven there during the phase of the Champions League group.
Liverpool will undoubtedly need to perform a more dominant performance on Tuesday than during the first leg in Paris, who saw the goalkeeper of Los Rojos, Alisson Becker, perform one of the greatest performances of his career.
The PSG had 27 shots at the two of Liverpool before the winner of Elliott consigned the French side to the frustrating defeat of the first leg, with the Brazilian forced to make a series of impressive salvages to deny people like Bradley Barcola, Ousmane Dembele, Khvicha Kvarathskhelia in attack.
Although the loss was difficult to swallow, the living PSG exhibition last week has given the French media a lot of confidence before the second leg.
'Magnificent last week, despite the defeat, PSG knew how to maintain hope. In Anfield on Tuesday night, the Parisians seem able to overthrow Liverpool in his kingdom ', The team He wrote on his cover.
'(It is) the time for PSG to reveal themselves and the world.
'Liverpool's children can be contorted to say what the substance of the first stage was, but in their eyes the naked truth is that they did not expect it, and they did not imagine being run over such proportions.
“In most of the areas that matter, the PSG was well above the reds.”
Slot will go to the first leg of the Champions League with confidence, knowing that Liverpool has never lost a draw in a European competition after triumphing in a first leg.
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In the 16 games, Liverpool has played against French teams in Anfield, the Reds have won 13, drawn once and lost twice, with those defeats against Marseille in 2008 and Lyon in 2009.
However, the last time Liverpool met a ligue 1 team in a knockout draw, they were defeated 3-1 in aggregate, losing against Lille in the last 16 of the Europa League in 2010.