UCL: Carragher names player that caused Liverpool’s defeat to PSG

Former England defender, Jamie Carragher has blamed 1 Liverpool subordinate pursuing their 2-0 nonaccomplishment to Paris Saint-Germain successful the archetypal limb of the Champions League quarter-finals connected Wednesday night.

He stated that Ibrahima Konate did not conscionable the expectations of Liverpool supporters.

Arne Slot’s squad struggled to contend with PSG astatine the Parc des Princes, wherever goals from Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia successful each fractional secured a well-deserved triumph for the Champions League titleholders.

Liverpool was incapable to grounds a changeable connected people and managed lone 26 percent possession, portion Slot acknowledged aft the lucifer that his squad was chiefly focused connected ‘surviving’ PSG’s onslaught successful the 2nd half.

Slot chose to instrumentality a backmost 5 enactment against PSG, but Carragher contends that Virgil van Dijk was hindered by a ‘poor’ show from Konate.

“He [Slot] approached the backmost 5 incorrectly, and they were really much exposed with a backmost 5 than they would person been with a backmost four,” Carragher remarked to CBS Sports.

“Their man-to-man marking crossed the pitch...