Liverpool fell out of the Champions League at the hands of PSG and despite the French side being a fierce opponent, their only goal was far from awe inspiring.
With Arne Slot labeling our exit as ‘unfair’, many pointed to a possible offside in the lead up to Ousmane Dembele’s goal.
Bradley Barcola received the ball on the right wing and drove at our defence, before a mix-up between Alisson Becker and Ibou Konate allowed a simple tap-in.
However, there were some online who suggested that the French winger was in an offside position and the footage from the semi-automated offside has now been shared.
It shows that 22-year-old was in fact onside and so the decision for the goal to stand was the correct one on the night.
You can view the Barcola offside courtesy of beIN Sports (via @DaleJohnsonESPN on X):
The semi-automated offside (onside) graphic for PSG's goal vs. Liverpool. #LIVPSG #UCL pic.twitter.com/cqnFYD4sio
— Dale Johnson (@DaleJohnsonESPN) March 11, 2025
Rio Ferdinand declared that the Parisians are ‘a problem’, which we certainly experienced first hand over both legs.
However, given all their attacking prowess and possession, for this to be their only goal of the tie does show that we played very well to keep them away from our goal.
We saw how much elimination hurt Mo Salah at full-time and the whole squad will be hurting after what was a rare feeling of disappointment this season.
We’ll see how strong Luis Enrique’s side are as they progress in the competition but it does feel like we came up against a very good team.
With possible games against Aston Villa and Arsenal on the horizon too, we may well be backing the French outfit to get to the final in May.
Regardless, we can have little complaint of being beaten by the better side over two legs.
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I disagree that this was cut and dry they were the better side in the second game. From what I saw we had at least two or three clear cut chances to score and did not – so of course you have to look at how many clear cut chances they had – and with all of them when those cjhances fell – because if we scored first – and I think we had the first clear cut chance/it becomes a whole new and different dynamic to the game. The reality is we had three ways to win.
1. We beat the at full time. (attackers job to get it done!)
2. We draw nil all. (defenders job to keep a clean sheet).
3. We beat them in penalty shoot out.
So it was always in our hands and as a team collectively we bottled it.
Nunez look very apathetic with his shot.
Curtis Jones was just plain terrible.
So Nunez now can have no complaints about his striking ability/not for the first he showed with the penalty, one vs one with a chance to score – he bottles it…so not good enough for this LFC team/of course Mo was disheartened when he missed – he is supposedly a striker with an immense shot on him/he just bottled it!
You cannot blame the penalty takers for loosing that game, we had so much attacking prowess in the second half. Should have been put away.
Nunez looked nervous taking our second penalty. But with the season he’s had so far, he maybe should not have taken me of the first 5. Bless him, give the lad a chance. It was only through him we had extra time and penalties 😩