8:50PM Slot needs one of his famous half-time rethinks. Liverpool started well, but the longer the half went on the more superior PSG became. The erratic finishing of the French may yet haunt them. Slot will be looking to his bench early in the second half if there is no immediate momentum shift.
8:48PM And the sand in the glass trickles away in an instant.
PSG have been very good on the break. Liverpool have had far more of the ball but need more precision with their passing and heading at attacking corners.
8:47PM Just a minute of stoppage time to come.
8:46PM Liverpool want a penalty when Szoboszlai goes down like a bag of spanners half a yard inisde the box as he tried to hold it up, back-to-goal, and roll his man. The referee tells him to get up. The replay shows Ruiz’s left leg catching him on the back of the thigh but he went down in instalments
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8:45PM Liverpool’s final pass has let them down so far. I think that has as much to do with PSG’s aggressive marking as any failure in execution.
8:43PM Another good save from Alisson to claw a deflected Dembélé left foot shot from the right of the area that spun viciously off Mac Allister towards the top left. PSG again make nothing of the corner.
8:41PM Nuno Mendes brings the ball forward, stepping into the inside-left channel from full-back to stride forward and then play Kvaratskhelia down the line. The winger feints and then shoots between Konaté and Alexander-Arnold as they tried to shut the door but it was gentle enough for Alisson to flop forward and gather.
Donnarumma looks so edgy for PSG. Despite their comfort in possession and their increasing number of chances, the difference between the teams over both legs could be the keepers.
8:38PM Two shots over the bar from Diogo Jota and Kvaratskhelia, the latter turned over the bar by Gravenberch’s outstretched leg. Alisson again catches a poor corner and triggers the counter with a punt to Díaz. He has Salah and Szoboszlain in support but PSG flood back into defence to pick off a wayward pass.
8:35PM As Chris said one misplaced midfield pass could be lethal and when Ruiz catches Mac Alllister overstretching and nips the ball away and upfield, Dembélé really should have made Liverpool pay as he closed in on Alisson. But a heavy touch knocks the ball into Alisson’s orbit and he manages to smother it.
8:33PM Mac Allister and Szoboszlai team up to rob Kvaratskhelia but the Georgia winger won’t stand for it and flies in to make a very forceful tackle on Mac Allister. The ball thuds into the hoardings and he celebrates like Ruben Dias after a blocking a gola-bound shot.
