We preview Tuesday’s UEFA Champions League quarter-final second-leg clash at Anfield with our Liverpool vs Paris Saint-Germain preview. After losing the first leg 2–0 in Paris, can Arne Slot’s side hit back on home soil and make it another historic European night?
Liverpool vs PSG: The Key Stats
The Opta supercomputer can barely separate these two teams ahead of the second leg, with Liverpool winning 39.6% of the pre-match simulations, and PSG right behind them with 37.9%. Liverpool have lost four games in a single edition of the Champions League for the first time since 2018-19; a campaign they went on to win, and the only one in which they’ve ever overturned a first-leg deficit of 2+ goals to progress – against Barcelona in the semi-finals. Paris Saint-Germain lead the way in this season’s Champions League for goals scored (36), total shots (259), shots on target (96), and touches in the opposition box (486).The business end of the 2025–26 Champions League has arrived, and in the week that will decide the last four, six-time winners Liverpool have work to do against holders Paris Saint-Germain.
Arne Slot’s side find themselves 2–0 down after the first leg at the Parc des Princes, with early goals in both halves from Desiré Doué and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia putting PSG in command, and on course for a semi-final spot.
Doué’s eleventh-minute opener in Paris means he’s had a hand in 11 goals across his 14 appearances in the Champions League knockout stages, with seven goals and four assists.
Liverpool didn’t manage a single shot on goal in the first half amid a dominant display from PSG, the first time they’ve failed to do so in the Champions League since facing Real Madrid in the 2020-21 quarter-finals.
The Reds weathered a Parisian storm for the remainder of the first half, and 15 minutes into the second period, João Neves set Kvaratskhelia up to fire home and put PSG in complete control of the tie.
Kvaratskhelia has now netted in four consecutive Champions League knockout-stage matches, becoming the first PSG player to achieve that feat, and the first player from any club in a single campaign since Karim Benzema (five) in 2021-22.
In fact, since the start of last season, only Barcelona’s Raphinha (13) has had a hand in more Champions League knockout stage goals than Kvaratskhelia’s 11 (eight goals and three assists).
By the time of the full-time whistle, Liverpool had failed to register a single shot on target – the first time they had failed to do so in a Champions League game since November 2020 against Atalanta.
A 2–0 aggregate scoreline leaves Liverpool with a mountain to climb ahead of the second leg, and their preparation time for Tuesday’s clash has been much shorter than that of PSG.
Unlike Luis Enrique’s side – who were able to rearrange their weekend Ligue 1 fixture against Lens – Liverpool were back in Premier League action on 11 April, beating Fulham 2–0 at Anfield.
Rio Ngumoha and Mohamed Salah, neither of whom featured against PSG last week, scored quick-fire goals in the 36th and 40th minutes as the Reds won their first league game in four attempts.
Aged 17 years and 225 days, Ngumoha became Liverpool’s youngest-ever Premier League goalscorer at Anfield, overtaking the milestone set by Raheem Sterling in October 2012.
After assisting Ngumoha’s opener against Fulham, big things will be expected of Florian Wirtz, who has created more open-play chances than any other player (28) in this season’s Champions League.
Salah‘s goal was also his first in the Premier League at Anfield since netting against Aston Villa in November – ending a dry spell of seven games as he heads into the twilight of his Liverpool career.
That sets Salah up to potentially play a pivotal role in Liverpool’s attempted comeback against PSG, with manager Slot having no fresh injury concerns ahead of the second leg.
Long-serving number one Alisson isn’t quite back to full fitness, and that could be a concern given Giorgi Mamardashvili has kept just three clean sheets across 15 starts for Liverpool, conceding in seven of his last eight.
Wataru Endo, Conor Bradley and Geovanni Leoni are long-term absentees for Liverpool, while PSG will be without Bradley Barcola and Quentin Ndjantou until the end of April.
Fabián Ruiz faces a late fitness test following a bruised knee, while Achraf Hakimi is set to move into PSG’s top five Champions League appearance makers with his 55th in the competition, overtaking Ángel Di María and Edinson Cavani.
Liverpool vs PSG Head-to-Head
PSG’s 2–0 victory in the first leg means there have been no draws in seven meetings between Liverpool and Paris across all competitions, with two of the Reds’ three wins coming on home soil.
The sides’ most recent match-ups before this season came in the round of 16 last term, with Liverpool recording a 1–0 win in Paris via Harvey Elliott’s late strike and taking a slender advantage back to Anfield.
On Merseyside, PSG quickly levelled the tie through Ousmane Dembélé, and after a 1–1 draw on aggregate, the Parisians succeeded 4–1 on penalties, eliminating Liverpool and laying the platform for their first-ever Champions League title.
Liverpool vs PSG Prediction
Liverpool need to win by at least two clear goals to force extra-time, let alone win the tie outright, and the Opta supercomputer is only slightly favouring them to claim victory inside 90 minutes at Anfield.
Across its 10,000 pre-match simulations, 39.6% resulted in success for Liverpool – that’s the most significant percentage of the pre-match outcomes, albeit not by much.
PSG aren’t far behind, winning 37.9% of the pre-match simulations, and the chances of a draw stand at just 22.5%.
Liverpool vs PSG Predicted Lineups
Liverpool: Giorgi Mamardashvili, Joe Gomez, Ibrahima Konaté, Virgil van Dijk, Milos Kerkez, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Florian Wirtz, Dominik Szoboszlai, Jeremie Frimpong, Hugo Ekitiké.
Head coach: Arne Slot
Paris Saint-Germain: Matvey Safonov, Achraf Hakimi, Marquinhos, Willian Pacho, Nuno Mendes, João Neves, Vitinha, Warren Zaïre-Emery, Désiré Doué, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, Ousmane Dembélé.
Head coach: Luis Enrique
Opta Power Rankings
The Opta Power Rankings are a global team ranking system. They assign an ability score to over 15,000 domestic football teams. This score is on a scale between zero and 100, where zero is the worst-ranked team in the world and 100 is the best team in the world.
Ahead of kick-off on Tuesday night at Anfield, here is the Opta Power Ranking for both sides.
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