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#2 Midfield struggled to dominate
Playing an unorthodox back three always has its issues, especially when you sacrifice on the holding midfielders. But with no Marco Verratti to play as the regista, his midfield partner Adrien Rabiot struggle to perform his duties. The Italian star was sent off the last time PSG played in the Champions League, during the of the round of 16 matches against Real Madrid and thus missed tonight's game against Liverpool.
But with Adrien Rabiot and Angel Di Maria playing more centrally, many expected PSG to be just fine, but as Jordan Henderson said before the game “If Verratti is missing tomorrow I'd say that's a big blow for PSG.” The Parisians struggled to make the most of possession at times, despite having the ball and even more so struggled to keep the ball for longer than five minutes in the second half, which was down to both James Milner and Jordan Henderson taking charge for Liverpool.
The two Englishman were in their element tonight and made sure to give both Di Maria and Adrien Rabiot a torrid time, with or without the ball. This made a major difference going forward, as PSG had to play long-balls or even have both Mbappe and Cavani drop very deep to help out Rabiot and Di Maria.
Once Julian Draxler came on, things looked a little better, begging the question as to why didn’t the German star start, but it was too little, too late.
