France legend Christophe Dugarry is predicting a \u201cmassacre\u201d when Liverpool face Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on Wednesday night.<\/p>\n
The Reds are struggling in the Premier League<\/a> this season with Arne Slot\u2019s side going from title winners to fifth place so far.<\/p>\n Liverpool<\/a> were also beaten 4-0 in their FA Cup quarter-final by Manchester City<\/a> last time out with the Champions League now their main focus now.<\/p>\n Slot\u2019s team travel to Paris to face PSG at the Parc des Princes on Wednesday evening in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.<\/p>\n Ligue 1 leaders PSG are favourites for the tie after winning the Champions League last term and Liverpool being in a run of poor form.<\/p>\n But former France and Birmingham City forward Dugarry reckons PSG will end the tie in the first leg in a \u201cmassacre\u201d against the Premier League side.<\/p>\n READ:\u00a0Slot to resign? Five reasons for quitting Liverpool would include Salah, FSG and Reds supporters<\/a><\/p>\n Dugarry told RMC Sport: \u201cIt\u2019s going to be a walk in the park, honestly \u2014 Liverpool are disastrous.<\/p>\n \u201cIn my opinion, the difference in level is colossal. I think PSG will wrap up the quarter-final in the first leg. It\u2019s going to be a massacre. Have you seen Liverpool play? They\u2019re catastrophic.\u201d<\/p>\n However, L\u2019Equipe reporter Pierre-Etienne Minonzio insisted: \u201cNobody within the club thinks it will be a massacre. There is total confidence, but they do respect Liverpool a lot.<\/p>\n \u201cBefore the first leg against Chelsea, there were huge doubts around PSG. There was talk about them being physically and mentally exhausted. But that 5-2 win felt like a turning point as it changed the momentum around the team.<\/p>\n MORE LIVERPOOL COVERAGE ON F365\u2026 \u201cThe dynamic is different from a year ago. Now there is huge expectation. The biggest difference in terms of the PSG team is the goalkeeper. Matvey Safonov is nowhere near the same level of Gianluigi Donnarumma, who left for Man City. Marquinhos also isn\u2019t as good as he was.<\/p>\n \u201cChelsea caused them problems for 60 minutes with their high pressing. If Liverpool are very offensive and intense like that, they could do the same, as PSG aren\u2019t used to it. But are Liverpool really in the shape to do that?\u201d<\/p>\n Liverpool attacking midfielder Florian Wirtz is excited to play in his first Champions League quarter-final and will \u201ctry everything\u201d to come out on top against PSG.<\/p>\n Wirtz told reporters in Paris: \u201cThese are the kind of games you want to play as a player.<\/p>\n \u201cI dreamed about them when I came to the club, so I\u2019ll try everything to do a good game here and also next week at Anfield.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"France legend Christophe Dugarry is predicting a \u201cmassacre\u201d when Liverpool face Paris Saint-Germain in the Champions League on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":388221,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-388220","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388220","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=388220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/388220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/388221"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=388220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=388220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=388220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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