Liverpool's Dutch manager Arne Slot attends a press conference at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, north-west England, on March 10, 2025, on the eve of their UEFA Champions League football match against Paris Saint Germain. (Photo by Paul Currie / AFP)
Liverpool: Liverpool head coach Arne Slot said that his team would need 'their best performance of the season' if they were going to guarantee a quarter finals spot against Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League last 16 second leg on Tuesday.
Slot's side rode their luck to beat the French champions 1-0 in Paris last week thanks largely to a superb display by Reds goalkeeper Alisson Becker.
The runaway Premier League leaders will have to improve on that patchy display to ensure they progress to the quarter-finals of a competition they last won in 2019.
Slot promised Liverpool will not sit back to defend their slender advantage at Anfield, revealing he has told his players to raise the performance levels to new heights.
"We want to play a different game, the intention is always the same, we are not going to go for a draw," he told reporters on Monday.
"That is also what we tried to do last week, it wasn't our intention to be so low all the time.
"At Manchester City away that wasn't the situation, at PSG that wasn't the situation. But we do take confidence from our home game against City where we did have the ball much more and it was much more of an equal game."
In a dream first season in charge for Slot, Liverpool are 15 points clear at the top of the Premier League as they chase a record-equalling 20th English title.
They also face Newcastle in the League Cup final at Wembley on Sunday.
