Coming into the game Liverpool had finished top of the league phase and Paris Saint-Germain finishing 15th so the English side would have the better seeding resulting in a home match in the second leg.
Despite PSG finishing 15th they were on a 22 unbeaten streak in Europe and were absolutely on fire with players like Bradley Barcola and Ousmane Dembele on top form.
When the first whistle went, Liverpool realised what a tough match it would have been for them with the pace of Dembele attacking them, and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia would put PSG 1-0 up just twenty minutes into the game with a lovely curled effort, but this would be chalked off due to him being offside.
The PSG pressure did not stop there as minutes later Bradley Barcola went through on goal where Ibrahima Konate appeared to shove the forward to the ground, the ref said no foul and that was looked at by VAR but they stuck to the refs decision.
Liverpool were struggling to get out all half and would be lucky to be holding onto their 0-0 score line as half-time struck.
The second half started no differently, with more pressure from PSG, and the Reds were unable to get out their own half, but there was still no goal for PSG.
The later the game went on, the more comfortable Liverpool got sitting back but still relying on Alisson to make some crucial saves.
But in the 87th minute when everyone thought the match was going to end 0-0 Darwin Nunez held the ball up for Harvey Elliott and with his first touch of the game he gave Liverpool the 1-0 lead going back to Anfield.
Alisson Becker - 10
The player of the match by a long way and probably the performance of his career, 10 saves in one game and not just that so many claims and some many crosses punched out, also got the pre-assist for the Liverpool goal too.
After getting a lot of criticism for his defending Alexander-Arnold put in a good defensive display against some really good wingers and played his part in the clean sheet.
Ibrihima Konate - 7
Covered really well all game and cleared a lot when it came in the box but probably should have had a red card in the first half for a shove on Barcola but got away with, and could have ended the tie for Liverpool.
Virgil Van Dijk - 8
Really good today clearing whatever came at him and whatever got past Andrew Robertson, made one mistake to give Ousmane Dembele a chance but was bailed out by Alisson.
Andrew Robertson - 7
Was getting beat quite a bit in the first half but secured himself up for the second to keep the clean sheet.
Ryan Gravenberch - 7
Was one of the better players on the ball today and really showed composure throughout the game, and defensively held the line with Alexis Mac Allister well.
Alexis Mac Allister - 7
Similar to Gravenberch, the Argentine was decent on the ball and kept the team really compact and hard to get through, but at times gave the ball away a little too easily.
Ran his absolute socks off which we say after every game but worked tirelessly to help out defensively when the team needed it putting in some crucial blocks and going forward drove the ball well.
Mohamed Salah - 4
One of the worst performers on the pitch today not really tracking back which is expected of Salah given how good he is going forward but today he was so poor going forward and so many miss placed passes and for Salah could be classes as easy chances.
Luis Diaz - 5
Quite poor holding up the ball game and giving it away in silly places and being too fancy and losing it, inviting more pressure onto the Liverpool defence.
Diogo Jota - 4
Same with Diaz in that his hold up play that is normally good was awful and he could not keep onto anything and his passes were constantly wayward.
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Liverpool Substitutes
Darwin Nunez - 8
Made an instant impact in the game and showed his quality in holding up the play especially for the goal where he played an instrumental part.
Curtis Jones - 7
Worked really hard when he came on and broke up PSG play really well delaying and disrupting their attacks.
Waturu Endo - 7
Looked defensively strong and made some important tackles to protect the back line
Harvey Elliott - 8
Scored with his first touch and it was the only touch that matters in the game what a substitution.
