Jamie Carragher shares concern over penalty shootout after Liverpool lose to PSG | Football

Jamie Carragher has revealed his main concern with Liverpool’s Champions League penalty shootout defeat to Paris Saint-Germain.

Carragher’s former club crashed out of the competition at the last-16 stage on Tuesday with PSG defeating Liverpool on penalties at Anfield.

Goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma was the hero for PSG, making crucial saves to deny spot-kicks from Liverpool’s Darwin Nunez and Curtis Jones.

PSG did not miss a single penalty with Desire Doue netting the winner to book the French side’s spot in the quarter-finals of the Champions League.

Speaking after the match, Liverpool legend Carragher was left confused over the coin toss which occurred directly before the shootout took place.

PSG won the coin toss – which meant they avoided taking penalties in front of the Kop end at Anfield – but then also got to take the first spot-kick.

Carragher believes this handed PSG a double ‘advantage’ as the football pundit offered his analysis on CBS Sports following the European clash.

‘One thing I couldn’t work out with the penalties was, obviously there was a coin toss with Virgil van Dijk [and PSG’s captain],’ Carragher said.

‘PSG must’ve won it to take it to the other end [away from the Kop] but then also took the first penalty. So I wasn’t quite sure what happened there.

‘Normally you only get one advantage and the other team gets the first penalty… but PSG deserved to go through.’

Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk has urged Liverpool’s players to keep their ‘chin up’ after their painful defeat on penalties, with the club back in action on Sunday as they face Newcastle United in the 2025 Carabao Cup final.

‘It was a very intense great game of football,’ Van Dijk told Amazon Prime. ‘It was totally there for Liverpool with what we showed in Paris and unfortunately we’re out on penalties and that is the reality.

‘I think in the first half we created dangerous moments and they have the quality as well, and then it comes down to penalties.

‘It’s part of football, I said to the guys, obviously, you can be disappointed because we’re out of the competition, but chin up and get ready for the next challenge, a beautiful one on the weekend.

‘I think we were pretty good today as well, and you want to go as far as possible, but we knew when we drew PSG it was going to be very difficult.

‘We saw in Paris when we struggled but we won, and today we saw a very good Liverpool side but we’re out of the competition.

‘Today from the first second and then extra time, when fatigue kicks in for both sides, it becomes more open but especially regular time, we showed a very good game.

‘We can speak about the game for ages but we’re out of the competition, that is the reality.’

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