Stan Collymore has urged Paris Saint-Germain and French media to ‘cease crying’ over the way of their defeat to Liverpool on Wednesday night time.
Regardless of dominating on the Parc des Princes and having 27 photographs to the guests’ two, Luis Enrique’s aspect misplaced 1-0 within the first leg of their Champions League round-of-16 conflict in midweek, with a number of the PSG gamers and administration not precisely gracious afterwards.
Vitinha bullishly declared that his aspect are ‘going to win’ at Anfield on Tuesday, whereas his coach bemoaned that they ‘deserved extra’ and that ‘soccer might be unfair at occasions’.
In the meantime, the notoriously important French newspaper L’Equipe described Liverpool’s win as an ‘English heist’ and gave unforgiving 3/10 participant rankings to Mo Salah and Andy Robertson (through Each day Mail).
Collymore tells PSG to ‘cease crying’
In his newest column for CaughtOffside, Collymore insisted that PSG should lick their wounds and deal with the duty in hand at Anfield, moderately than wallowing in self-pity and bitterness.
The previous Reds striker wrote: “L’Equipe is clearly a really well-respected newspaper, and so they gave very low rankings to the Liverpool gamers. I feel there’s a little little bit of saltiness there.
“PSG have tried so laborious over the past 10 years to turn into a Champions League-winning staff, and so they haven’t bought there. Now the time that they’re somewhat extra humble and natural, they couldn’t seal the deal at house with that efficiency.”
Collymore continued: “The truth now for PSG is that they’ll’t have any excuses at Anfield. Their gamers, teaching workers, in addition to the French media and pundits, they should cease crying and go to Anfield and be extra medical in entrance of purpose.
“In the event that they do this, and in addition maintain a clear sheet, they’ve each probability of turning it round. However I feel in the event that they spent the following week crying over the primary leg, they are going to strategy the second leg in the identical method, and Liverpool would reap the benefits of that.”
PSG can solely blame themselves for not successful first leg
After what occurred to Liverpool towards Actual Madrid within the 2022 Champions League closing, we will empathise with how sickening Wednesday’s defeat should’ve been for PSG, and Arne Slot was sincere sufficient to confess that his staff had been ‘actually fortunate’ to have gained in Paris.
Nonetheless, as Collymore says, Enrique’s aspect have solely themselves (and a goalkeeping masterclass from Alisson) guilty for not successful the primary leg comfortably, and a efficiency of an analogous commonplace at Anfield might but see them overturn the one-goal deficit.
The Reds mustn’t fall into the lure of considering that the laborious work is completed by successful the away fixture. They solely must look again finally yr’s Europa League quarter-final towards Atalanta for a reminder as to what high-quality visiting groups can do to us if we’re under par.
Liverpool have the benefit within the tie and are ok to capitalise on that at house in the event that they carry out to the degrees we all know they’ll attain. An onslaught from PSG needs to be anticipated, but when we will rating the primary purpose comparatively early on Tuesday, hopefully that may deflate the bruised Ligue 1 outfit much more.
