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PSG edge past Liverpool with knockout football display
Liverpool's Mohamed Salah (left), Curtis Jones and Cody Gakpo stand dejected after losing the shoot-out following the UEFA Champions League round of sixteen second leg match at Anfield, Liverpool, March 11, 2025

Liverpool 0-1 PSG (1-1 on aggregate, PSG win 4-1 on penalties)
by James Nalton
at Anfield

 

IF THE ideal ending to a European Cup season pits the continent’s two best teams against each other in the final, then there’s a strong argument to say the ideal ending would have been Liverpool versus Paris Saint-Germain.

Knockout cup competitions don’t work like that, though (neither should they) and despite its extended money-spinning Champions League League Stage, the European Cup is still ultimately a knockout tournament.

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