Virgil van Dijk was spotted deep in conversation with Paris Saint-Germain's president Nasser Al-Khelaifi and Sporting director Luis Campos following Liverpool's penalty shootout defeat in the Champions League. Arne Slot's side had carried a one-goal advantage over from the first leg in Paris, but an early Ousmane Dembele goal levelled things up on the night, with the match eventually needing to be decided on penalties.
Given Liverpool's position of comfort in the Premier League, losing so early in the Champions League will no doubt sting for Slot and his players. Reacting to the game overall, the Dutchman said: "It was the best game of football I was ever involved in. Incredible performance, especially compared to last week. In the first 20 to 25 minutes, we were all over them, created chance after chance and all of a sudden we were 1-0 down. Probably it was almost the opposite, maybe we ran out of luck because the margins were so small tonight.]
"After 90 minutes it felt we deserved more than being 1-0 down. I was waiting for us to score. I don't think the second half, apart from the last five minutes, when they threatened us once or twice. We played the perfect game, except for scoring goals, it was the same for PSG last week when they played the perfect game and didn't score, and it happened to us today."
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