📸 PSG paint football: Douè+Kvara 🧙‍♂️ Slot hauls off Salah, OUT 90' 😲 | OneFootball

A one-sided match took place at the Parc des Princes.

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The first leg of the Champions League quarter-finals goes to PSG, who beat Liverpool convincingly and deservedly, even if the scoreline does not fully reflect the number of chances created by the home side.

An unreal atmosphere at the Parc des Princes, driven by a spectacular tifo: a gigantic red-and-blue Hulk tearing apart the Reds’ logo, with the stadium fired up from the very first minute. On the pitch, the script was clear: in the 11th minute Désiré Doué opened the scoring with a deflected shot that caught Giorgi Mamardashvili off guard, then in the 65th minute Khvicha Kvaratskhelia made it two with a devastating run down the left.

PSG dominated and could have run away with it: Ousmane Dembélé wasted several good chances, while Mamardashvili prevented an even heavier scoreline with crucial saves. In between, there was also the penalty first awarded and then overturned by VAR for Ibrahima Konaté’s challenge on Warren Zaïre-Emery.

Liverpool were never truly dangerous and were overwhelmed in terms of play, with Arne Slot under fire for the decision to leave Mohamed Salah on the bench for the full 90 minutes: a choice that has sparked debate. The second leg will be played in Liverpool on Tuesday, April 14, to decide who will fly into the semi-finals.

🔚 PSG vs Liverpool 2-0, second leg at Anfield in six days

😲 Slot puts four on together, but not Salah: on the bench for 90'

Increasingly under pressure, Arne Slot is once again the target of criticism for his decision not to bring on Mohamed Salah: a choice that has raised eyebrows, considering that against such a well-organized team his technical quality could have caused serious problems.

❌ PSG penalty taken away after VAR review

72ND MINUTE - A penalty is initially awarded to PSG for Ibrahima Konaté’s challenge on Warren Zaïre-Emery, who was driving toward goal. But VAR calls the referee to the monitor and changes everything: touch on the ball, decision overturned.

⚽ Kvara in MONSTER mode: he dribbles past them like cones and scores!

65TH MINUTE - PSG strike again, and fully deserve it, at the end of a move finished after the 27th pass.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia comes alive on the left, takes on the defenders and breezes past them, leaving Gomez and Gravenberch behind as well. He then rounds Giorgi Mamardashvili with a brilliant move and taps into the net. Liverpool’s defense was in huge trouble: far too much space given to a player this deadly. 

RANDOM STATS: Khvicha Kvaratskhelia scored his eighth goal in this edition, more than any other PSG player in the UEFA Champions League.

RANDOM STATS: Kvara is the first player ever to score in four consecutive Champions League matches for PSG. Overall, the last player to do so in the knockout stage was Benzema in 2022, the year he won the Ballon d'Or.

😱 Dembele unbelievable: moving penalty blasted into the stands!

53RD AND 87TH MINUTES - It was not Ousmane Dembélé’s night.

The Frenchman receives the ball in the box after Nuno Mendes breaks through on the left, with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia also involved in the build-up. But from the perfect position he fires high over the bar, wasting a huge chance. Shortly before coming off, almost at the end of the match,  from a tight angle he unleashed a powerful effort and the ball crashed against the post.  

👍 Mamardashvili makes amends: two saves deny PSG a second

One of the absolute protagonists was Giorgi Mamardashvili: first he flew to stop Khvicha Kvaratskhelia’s right-footed volley, then he produced a superb save from Désiré Doué at close range. Two decisive saves that kept Liverpool afloat.

⚽ Douè OPENS the match: deflected shot, Mamardashvili 😓

11TH MINUTE - The match is unlocked thanks to Désiré Doué, who scores a great goal.

The Parisian talent creates space for himself on the edge of the area and shoots from the right corner of the box: Gravenberch’s deflection proves decisive, changing the ball’s path and wrong-footing Mamardashvili, beaten by the looping ball that drops in behind him. The feeling is that the goalkeeper could have done much better, because the trajectory was very slow.

RANDOM STATS: With this goal, Doué moves up to 7 scored in the Champions League knockout stage: before turning 21, only Mbappé had managed it.

RANDOM STATS: At 20 years and 309 days, Doué becomes the sixth-youngest player ever to reach 10 Champions League goals, behind only Lamine Yamal, Kylian Mbappé, Erling Haaland, Jude Bellingham, and Karim Benzema.

😱 CRAZY fan choreographies: Hulk tears apart Liverpool logo

In Paris they have now made us used to extraordinary choreographies, and tonight’s go straight into the rankings of the most beautiful.

"Tonight awaken the Hulk within you" reads the banner placed beneath a gigantic Hulk colored red and blue tearing apart the Liverpool logo. On the other side is what looks like the transformation.

🔥 Incredible welcome and atmosphere in Paris!

✅ The OFFICIAL lineups

PSG (4-3-3): Safonov; Hakimi, Marquinhos, Pacho, Nuno Mendes; Zaïre-Emery, Vitinha, João Neves; Kvaratskhelia, Dembélé, D. Doué. Coach: Luis Enrique

Injured: F. Ruiz, Barcola.

Liverpool (4-2-3-1): Mamardashvili; Kerkez, Van Dijk, Konaté, Gomez; Mac Allister, Gravenberch; Wirtz, Szoboszlai, Frimpong; Ekitiké. Coach: Slot.

Injured: Alisson, Leoni, Bradley, Endo.

This article was translated into English by Artificial Intelligence. You can read the original version in 🇮🇹 here.

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