Roberto Firmino’s injury-time winner gave Liverpool a dramatic victory over Paris St-Germain in their opening Champions League Group C game at Anfield.
Firmino was only fit enough to be on the bench after suffering an eye injury in Liverpool’s victory at Tottenham on Saturday – but he emerged on 72 minutes to secure a win that manager Jurgen Klopp may have thought was slipping away after Kylian Mbappe’s late equaliser threatened to rescue a point for PSG.
Though PSG did score two, it was very labored performance from the French Champions especially from their star studded attack of Neymar, Cavani and Mbappe with the Brazilian in particular very poor. Neymar is PSG’s de facto leader on the pitch but the silky moving star completed zero dribbles on the night and had a pass completion accuracy of 19%.
This performance led to lots of criticism from fans worldwide..
Overrated..
https://twitter.com/_CocoKlopps/status/1042163376791670785
Mbappe was better..
Kylian Mbappe will win the ballon d'or before Neymar. #UCL
— Uncle Wilson™ (@iam_wilsons) September 18, 2018
This analysis makes a lot of sense..
https://twitter.com/BrazilStat/status/1042159764719980544
https://twitter.com/IndigoLFC/status/1042161380823105536
A bit too much but still..
Neymar will never reach GOAT status
— Ernestein (@mazz706) September 18, 2018
Neymar is just a great example of “its overconfidence that’ll kill you”. Man acts like he’s untouchable, can never be my world best
— AJ | Adonai (@mrmanhere_) September 18, 2018