Stan Collymore and Ibrahima Konate (Picture by Marc Atkins, Julian Finney/Getty Photographs)
Former Liverpool star Stan Collymore has spoken completely to CaughtOffside concerning the Reds’ win towards Paris Saint-Germain within the Champions League this week.
Harvey Elliott’s purpose and a sequence of beautiful saves from Liverpool goalkeeper Alisson gave Arne Slot’s males a priceless 1-0 win away to PSG to make them the clear favourites to progress into the Champions League quarter-finals.
Arsene Wenger gave me an Arsenal shirt after a deal was AGREED – which all-time nice’s transfer to Arsenal fell by means of on the final minute?
Nonetheless, PSG had loads of possibilities and may think about themselves unfortunate to not have received on the evening, with Luis Enrique prone to really feel his aspect aren’t fairly out of this tie but if they will play like that once more at Anfield.
On high of that, Ibrahima Konate was very fortunate with an incident that might have seen him despatched off, based on Collymore.
Ibrahima Konate “fortunate” to not see purple in Liverpool win at PSG
Ibrahima Konate in motion for Liverpool (Picture by Alex Pantling/Getty Photographs)
“I feel Konate was fortunate to not be despatched off. For me, it’s a purple card, however there have been 10 different incidents in the course of the match which you could say that about, and then you definitely’re coping with hypotheticals,” Collymore mentioned.
“The truth is that on the pitch, the referee determined that it was not a purple card. On this incident, I feel there was a little bit of an agenda behind it, and it has primarily been pushed by the French media.”
Liverpool will in all probability want to enhance for the second leg, they usually definitely can’t afford an error like that once more from Konate or any of their different key gamers.
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Nonetheless, it was additionally a extremely skilled victory for LFC and the sort that can solely enhance the membership’s optimism about what they will obtain this season.
Slot’s aspect are already high of the Premier League desk and massive favourites to win the title, they usually might absolutely go all the way in which in Europe as properly.