By OLIVER HOLT IN PARIS

Published: 20:27, 7 April 2026 | Updated: 20:27, 7 April 2026

Liverpool manager Arne Slot has warned his beleaguered team that if they play as they did in their FA Cup drubbing by Manchester City on Saturday, Paris Saint-Germain will put another four goals past them  in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final.

Slot, who is coming under increasing pressure from disaffected Liverpool supporters, said he welcomed comments from skipper Virgil van Dijk in the aftermath of the defeat when he suggested that some of his team-mates had ‘given up’ in the second half after a disastrous 20-minute spell either side of half time when they conceded four times. The game ended 4-0.

And he insisted that if Liverpool drew on their rich history of resilience and defiance in the Champions League and played as they had done in the first 35 minutes against City at the Etihad, then they might yet be able to upset PSG and progress to the semi-finals.

‘I can tell you,’ Slot said at the Parc des Princes on Tuesday...