Liverpool icon Carragher reveals key concern with penalty loss vs PSG amid 'one thing' he 'couldn't work out'
Jamie Carragher has disclosed the “one point” he “couldn’t endorsement” with Liverpool’s penalty shootout loss to Paris Saint-Germain.
The Reds were knocked out of the Winners League in the last 16 on Tuesday night, losing 4-1 on charges to PSG after the two sides attracted 1-1 on accumulation.
Arne Adapter’s side were lucky to filch a 1-0 lead into the 2nd leg as PSG effortlessly conquered them before Harvey Elliott netted an sudden late victor off the bench.
Ousmane Dembele sealed his enclosure as the 2025 pioneering scorer in Europe with an early consider at Anfield, and the sides exchanged significant possibilities yet could not be separated before charges.
Gianluigi Donnarumma was the hero for PSG, conserving charges from Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones as Luis Enrique’s side booked their enclosure in the Winners League quarter-finals.
This output ends Liverpool’s treble hopes onward of the Carabao Cup last against Newcastle Joined on Sunday while they are designed to win the Premier League.
Carragher’s systematic trouble with the shootout came from the coin throw as PSG gained two “incentives”.
“One point I couldn’t endorsement with the charges was, undeniably there was a coin throw with Virgil van Dijk [and PSG’s captain],” Carragher said on CBS Sporting jobs.
“PSG have to’ve won it to filch it to the other run out [away from the Kop] yet then in a tantamount way took the first penalty. So I wasn’t pretty sure what took place there.
“Basically you only solicit one allay and the other team avails the first penalty… yet PSG been qualified to to go with.”
Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk reckons they are “pretty wonderful” against PSG and advised his teammates to “solicit ready” for Newcastle.
“It was a horribly fierce wonderful gallery of football,” Van Dijk said.
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“It was wonderfully consistently there for Liverpool with what we showed in Paris and unfortunately we’re out on charges and that is the reality.
“I reckon in the first fifty percent we invented unsafe minutes and they have the attribute as effortlessly, and then it comes down to charges.
“It’s part of football, I said to the mans, undeniably, you can be disgruntled since we’re out of the challengers, yet chin up and solicit ready for the next off crunch, a pristine one on the weekend.
“I reckon we were pretty wonderful today as effortlessly, and you want to go as far as conceivable, yet we knew as soon as we attracted PSG it was attending be horribly arduous.
“We saw in Paris as soon as we taken care of yet we won, and today we saw a horribly wonderful Liverpool side yet we’re out of the challengers.
“Today from the first 2nd and then auxiliary time, as soon as fatigue kicks in for both sides, it becomes auxiliary responsive yet particularly invariant time, we showed a horribly wonderful gallery.
“We can talk around the gallery for periods yet we’re out of the challengers, that is the reality.”
