FOOTBALL DAILY: Slot's Liverpool machine continues to malfunction, Atleti scupper Barca dreams and Parrott and Omobamidele in Euro action
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Hello and welcome along to Thursday's Football Daily. I'm Phil Egan. Coming up today, Liverpool were beaten 2-0 by PSG in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final. But this is the beginning of the end for Arna Slott. Barcelona's Champions League dreams hang by a thread after they were beaten 2-0 by Atletico Madrid. And Troy Parrott will look to continue his European journey with Azed Alkmaar in the Conference League tonight. But first, Liverpool have it all to do to avoid being knocked out of the Champions League by PSG for the second season in a row. Arnaud Slotseide were beaten 2-0 away to the holders last night in the first leg of their quarter-final. The Liverpool boss changed his formation and went with a back three.
His side didn't have one single shot on target in the game.
Of course, that's not the plan. Of course, you think you can do better and when you press them high, you can force them to mistakes. But I think we were in survival mode for large parts of the game. Paris Saint-Germain was the better team, but we didn't give up. And now we can bring the tie back to Anfield.
Arna Slot defended his decision to leave Mo Salah on the bench for the full 90 minutes. He says there was no point bringing the Egyptian on because they had no chance of scoring.
Mo has so much qualities, but for Mo to be 20, 25 minutes defending inside his own box, I think it's better for him to save his energy for a lot of games that are coming up in the upcoming weeks.
PSG boss Luis Enrique says his team can now play Premier League opposition because they're not reliant on set pieces. Desiree Due and Kavica Kavaratskelia scored goals from open play. Luis Enrique has praised the creativity of his team.
We try to play the best football. We try to have fun with our supporters, trying to show them the way we play its offensive way, trying to create superiority in every part of the pitch.
What happened in Liverpool's Champions League match against PSG?
And that's our idea. That's our mentality.
Ernest Slott was already under massive pressure with Liverpool scrapping for a top-five finish in the Premier League. It doesn't help that former Champions League winner with Liverpool, Xabi Alonso, is available after his departure from Real Madrid in January. And on Thursday morning's off-the-ball breakfast, Spanish football expert Graeme Hunter joined Gerard Gilroy and Michael McCarthy. And Hunter says if Alonso did get the Liverpool job, he would benefit from an entirely different situation to the one he had in Madrid.
Luis Enrique... potentially began the beginning of the end for Arnie Slott, which leads people to wonder about whether or not, or how quickly Liverpool will move to get Xabi Alonso in. The bookmakers have decided that that's... almost a done deal and it was interesting that they went to three at the back last night and maybe showed the powers that be what the gaps are in a squad that we might play three at the back next season which maybe makes it easier for them to hire Xabi Alonso and go actually we know exactly what we need in this squad is Xabi Alonso the right man to fix that? Well, first of all, let's be clear that I think he only played three at the back for Madrid twice. It became his signature, particularly during the first season by Leverkusen.
It's not something he's addicted to if the personnel aren't right. And I'd be honest and say that I don't know sufficiently well what Liverpool's... personnel is going to be like, is Andy Robertson staying or not? So whether it's Alonso or not, does that automatically mean he's playing three at the back? I'm not sure it does. He'll use the resources the way that he sees fit. Look, I think the situation at Liverpool is wholly different from what he encountered at Roma did.
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