PSG was much superior and beat Liverpool in the quarterfinals of the Champions League

PSG beat Liverpool 2-0 in it Princes Park for the first leg of the quarter finals of the UEFA Champions League 2025-2026. Luis Enrique’s team won the first duel with vast superiority with goals from Doue and Kvaratskhelia.

After monopolizing possession of the ball, PSG billed in its first risk action. Désiré Douewho had started the play, found himself with the ball at the door of the area. There he turned and hit it with his right: a brush with a defender generated a strange parabola, through which he went down behind Giorgi Mamardashvili, for the team led by Luis Enrique to make it 1-0 in just 11 minutes of play.

Liverpool sought to hurt with one of their favorite weapons: the stopped ball. At 20′, the English created a risk and the Parisians escaped due to the courage of Matvey Safonov. At the exit of a corner, Dominik Szoboszlai sent in a cross that Milos Kerkez, Virgil van Dijk and Alexis Mac Allister charged behind the defence. Risky, the Russian goalkeeper went all out and took it out with a swipe in the air.

After a free kick that looked dangerous and was diluted, PSG found themselves with an opportunity that was almost a gift. The Reds wanted to come out playing and, after a series of rebounds, the ball was in front of Khvicha Kvaratskheliawho He hit him with a right and forced a great response from Mamardashvili. In the Georgian duel, the goalkeeper won, taking the ball with a saving blow with his right hand.

At 37, Doué was close to scoring his second goal of the night. João Neves made a long clearance for Nuno Mendes’ run, who took flight from the right and, upon entering the area, touched Doué who arrived through the middle. The scorer of the first goal controlled and played with his left foot, but Mamardashvili managed to bail with his legs.

Two minutes later, Liverpool warned Jeremie Frimpong with a right hand. The team dressed in red advanced in an offensive position and Florian Wirtz delivered an exquisite spoon pass for the Dutchman, who gave him a bomb: From a very tight angle, the ball crossed the entire arc and went inches from the right post.

With Ousmane Dembélé turned into a demon, PSG had two very clear chances at the end of the first half. To the 42′a fast and almost geometric attack was met with a closing by Ibrahima Konaté. However, the ball remained at the feet of Dembele: in a fire zone, number 10 searched with a low left foot, although the shot was very centered and allowed a good resolution from Mamardashvili.

At 45′Dembélé arrived from the right and touched back Joao Neveswho arrived with his head high, on the line of the large area. From there, the Portuguese tried to surprise with a shot at the near post, but hit it imprecisely, once again forgiving Liverpool.

Dembélé’s lack of precision became serious in the second half. An error by Alexis Mac Allister left possession at the feet of Kvaratskhelia, who paused and opened on the left to look for Nuno Mendes’ comeback. Very opportune, the Portuguese gave it to Dembélé, who was in an almost unbeatable position: from the penalty spot, the number 10 hit him on the crossbar and ended up taking his face for missing a new opportunity to widen the difference.

Khvicha Kvaratskhelia extended the lead in the 65th minute with a real goal. The Georgian started the action in the middle of the field and came up the field. João Neves, from the left, put in a beautiful filtered pass who found number 7 again. From the ear of the area, Kvaratskhelia faced the center, He left Ryan Gravenberch behind, then the goalkeeper and, in front of the goal, he feinted to finally touch it with his right into the net. PSG was 2-0, with a Georgian exquisiteness.

At 70′, José María Sánchez Martínez took a penalty for PSG for an alleged infringement by Ibrahima Konaté on Warren Zaïre-Emery inside the area. However, From the VAR they called the referee: after seeing the action, the Spaniard determined that there had been no foul.

Mamardashvili saved Liverpool from 0-3 That would have been a difficult blow to swallow. At 83′, Hakimi opened for Dembélé and he made a wall that left the Moroccan in the free zone to shoot a cannon shot. The low left foot shot, which was destined for the net, was deflected with enormous effort by the English team’s goalkeeper, who prevented the difference from becoming a rout..

PSG flirted with third again, but failed once again. In an almost perfect counterattack, Dembélé climbed the pitch from the left to the center and stretched for Lee Kang-In. The Korean paused and enabled number 10, who hit him hard with his right. It was clear, however, that it was not his night, because the ball broke the left post, denying him his goal.

When there was almost nothing left on the clock, the French team once again had the third almost served on a plate. Hakimi was a plane on the right and decided to give the conversion to Nuno Mendes: in the fire zone, almost at the penalty spot, the Portuguese ran over the ball and lost a golden opportunity to break Liverpool.

Thus, the defending champion of the Orejona closed an almost unbeatable match in its development, in which it achieved an overwhelming difference in possession of the ball and in the risky situations it generated. If his performance did not end up being perfect, it was because he made merits to make the result lapidary and almost irrecoverable. It ended 2-0, and it had little flavor.