The left foot shot that silenced Anfield
Ousmane Dembélé had an outstanding debt. After wasting clear chances in the first leg in Paris, the Frenchman arrived at Anfield with something to prove. And boy did he do it.
With a perfect left foot shot from the edge of the area, in the 72nd minute, he dashed Liverpool’s hopes. The ball skimmed the grass and slipped past Giorgi Mamardashvili’s post. The silence in the English coliseum was total.
“From the edge of the area, the reigning Ballon d’Or winner placed a low left foot shot that beat the goalkeeper”
That goal, his first of the night, ended the resistance of a team that was trying hard to come back. But Dembélé was not satisfied. In added time, a play culminated to definitively sentence: 2-0 at Anfield and a 4-0 aggregate that tastes like a direct ticket to the semifinals.
The redemption of a star
The beauty of sport is this: the ability to resurface. Last week in Paris, Dembélé was singled out. Tonight in Liverpool, he was applauded. That is the mentality that Luis Enrique has implanted in this PSG.
The team now awaits a rival. He will be the winner of the duel between Bayern Munich and Real Madrid, which is defined this Wednesday in Germany with the Bavarian team leading (2-1).
Meanwhile, in Paris they celebrate. Not just a victory, but the demonstration of character of a group that knows how to suffer and, above all, knows how to finish.
