Substitute Harvey Elliott scored the winner with his first touch in the 87th minute of Wednesday\u2019s game at Parc des Princes.<\/p>\n
That secured an unlikely, yet crucial, victory from a contest that was dominated in large parts by PSG, who were thwarted in the main by a near-perfect performance from Alisson Becker, who made nine saves on the night.<\/p>\n
The Reds now take a slender advantage into next Tuesday\u2019s second leg, with Slot anticipating another stern test from Luis Enrique\u2019s side at Anfield.<\/p>\n
Read the head coach\u2019s post-match reaction below.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
On how he would sum up the game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I think if we had a draw over here we would have already been lucky, that\u2019s clear for everyone. I think they were the much better team today, especially in the first half, they had a lot of open chances \u2013 three or four big, big, big chances. In the second half they were still the better team, still had a lot of shots on target, but they were mainly from outside the box. But I knew before the game, and I saw again today, how much quality this team has and these individual players have. <\/p>\n So, all these shots from outside the box were with a certain speed that you only see with top players. We have them as well but you could see it with them as well [and] that\u2019s why Alisson still had to make a lot of big saves. We were lucky in the first half that the goal [Khvicha Kvaratskhelia\u2019s disallowed effort] was fractionally offside\u2026 and in the end, we were already in the game three, four or five times. I felt like, \u2018We can hurt them in transition,\u2019 but we didn\u2019t. But we waited until the last moment and then we hurt them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n You have to accept cookies in order to view this content on our site.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n On Elliott\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n A big moment for him. I can understand that he is sometimes frustrated by the playing time he gets because he is a good player, he showed at Liverpool already that he is a good player, but he is in competition for players that I hardly take off. So, Dominik Szoboszlai is always the one that just keeps on going, he also scores goals but he\u2019s so important for us with all the running he does. And yeah, Mo Salah I think is quite key for everyone as well. So, he has to do it with limited playing time but he just keeps on going. <\/p>\n I have to give him big compliments for that and also my staff because they keep working with him and every time come up with great exercises so he stays fit. But it wasn\u2019t only Harvey, it was also the one who assisted, Darwin Nunez, who came from a difficult two games but was absolutely there again tonight because from the moment he came in we were more of a threat than before.<\/p>\n \u200c<\/span><\/p>\n On what tonight tells him about the task ahead at Anfield\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n It tells me that we are, of course, [with] a 1-0 win and if you have seen the game it is a very good result for us., But we also felt the quality of Paris Saint-Germain and I knew it before: 10 times in a row they scored goal after goal after goal [and have] incredible pace with the wingers. So, every underlying stat shows you that they are the best team in the Champions League \u2013 so, we in the league table won it but they were in the underlying stats the best team, so I wasn\u2019t surprised they were so good. We\u2019re definitely going to need our fans in a week\u2019s time.<\/p>\n On whether PSG are the Reds\u2019 best opponents so far this season and whether his team were \u2018under par\u2019 on the night\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n No, no \u2013 we were not under par. It\u2019s purely the quality of Paris Saint-Germain and the way they\u2019ve played this whole season. I can say it one more time, all of the underlying stats show you that they were the best team in Europe until now \u2013 except for the league table, but they\u2019ve had Arsenal, they\u2019ve played Bayern Munich, they\u2019ve played Atletico Madrid and they\u2019ve played Manchester City and they still have the best underlying stats. <\/p>\n They showed today \u2013 and I already knew it but the players saw it today as well, and our fans and all of England \u2013 that Luis Enrique made an incredible team here after three [transfer] windows. So much pace, so much work-rate, so much quality in the midfield, how they handle the ball. So, it was an unbelievable challenge for us to get away here with a result and we know it\u2019s going to be a hard one in a week.<\/p>\n\n
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