NOW STEVE NICOL REACTS TO SALAH S MESSAGE BIG DEBATE OVER LIVERPOOL VS PSG LIVERPOOL NEWS

Hello and welcome to the latest edition of ESPN FC. Kei Murray, Shaka Hislop and Stevie Nicholl here in the studio looking back on the week that was in the Champions League and what's next for the teams that are involved. One place to start, especially with Stevie back, and that is with Liverpool. Liverpool are still in the competition. They bounced back in style in that second-leg Champions League last-16 tie against Galatasaray. They are now through to the quarterfinals where they will be taking on the mighty PSG. These are the headlines that we're seeing after they booked their spot. Omo rumpets Reddit full force. The gloves are off. Omo's half-century in Reds run with his 50th Champions League goal, so there's been much made of that as well. Yadab, Theodorov, his journey was now. We'll be hearing from Jan in just a moment. But we must start with Stevie, especially because, Stevie, Liverpool are clearly back. Oh, yes, absolutely. Low danger. But they're not. They're XS1. I'm tempted to say calm down. It's one game. I mean, I guess I should be pleased, but the truth is the opposition were terrible. I mean, let's be quite frank here. I mean, the mid-spurs, what'll be us at the weekend against Liverpool? So, yeah, it's fantastic 2-1, 4-0. It's great to relax. Well, even that's not true. I wasn't relaxed until 2-0, because I know what this team are capable of defensively. So, yeah, once it got to 2-0, then it was chill. Enjoy the game. Enjoy the goals. Enjoy the chances. But until then, I was very wary of what could go wrong, I'm afraid. So you think he's saying they're not back, Shaka? I have no idea. I guess he should be pleased, because, well, yeah, of course, I think he does him pleased. But still, yeah, calm down. Listen, you take the win. You're through to the next round. You come up against PSG. You deal with that. When that comes around, I'm kind of giving to Stevie's point, kind of giving some of Liverpool's limping, I guess, is as nice a way I can put it. It's good to have a game on a big European night at Anfield, and it becomes comfortable at a point. Lesney, you couldn't help but wonder which Liverpool would show up, and maybe multi-point which Galatasaray would show up. We show Galatasaray at home, win 1-0. Probably should have been more, but Galatasaray have not travelled well. You show that in the previous round against Juventus. You show that on the night at Anfield, and especially when Ossi Menezes is kind of holding his arm and is not moving as freely as he would. You just kind of felt, or you hoped it would be a matter of time, and that's what it proved to Liverpool. You take the wins. How? Where? When? You get them, and this is Modifa. It's been well-documented, Jan, that this is not the Liverpool of last year, but nor is it the PSG of last year. That's who they're facing next in the Champions League is this one that's winnable, for honest. Man, I think it's winnable. I mean, this is not PSG at their best, although they have shown in the last round against Chelsea. I'm not sure how good Chelsea are, but what we learned the last days about Liverpool is that they're beat to the world beat. They won 1-1 against the world beat Tottenham, who's now back as one of the best teams in the world, it seems. So I think that this is a very open game, and I think that, I mean, I see Stevie. If that's how he is relaxed, I look forward to it. Will Liverpool lose again? But I would say Salah is back. I mean, we didn't know that after he missed that penalty, but he was still back there scoring goals, putting in assists, and I think that we saw something between that game and the Tottenham game that was kind of a hostile atmosphere at Liverpool. We heard the press conference from Arnold Schloot, so I saw a Liverpool manager not maybe be very happy after the game, but very relieved. I mean, there was a relief in the camp, but I think when we see the team, when we see the players they had going forward, and I won't mention Wirtz this time, but Wirtz and the rest of the boys, there are some intensity there that can be tough for PSG, although I will say PSG, after what they did against Chelsea, they will be favourites. Yeah, Jan didn't want to talk about Wirtz there, but he did mention Salah. Is he back? Is he looking like he might be able to salvage some of his form for the final run of the season? Well, I think you should ask me that question after Brighton at the weekend, because as much as it's a 4-0 win, and I'm saying it's one game, it's also one game for him, and a game in which his penalty absolutely screamed of no confidence, and then all of a sudden he pulls out, coming in on the left foot, and whips it into the top corner that he hasn't done for 12 months. So, ask me after Brighton, if he can put another performance together where he does whip balls into the top corner, and he does assist, then maybe we can stop talking about anybody being back, and particularly him. So, yeah, it's great to see. It just shows you what you're still capable of, and boy, have we missed it. So, let's hope that we do see a lot more of it. Start them again, as I said, against Brighton at the weekend. It is interesting that you bring up what they're going to do next. Is that something that Virgil van Dijk talked about afterwards in the stop-start nature that we've seen of Liverpool's season, when they have had a big result? He said, we've been having good performances this season, and we haven't been able to build on it the next time. So, what does that look like? I'd have to pull him up on that. When he talks about we've had good performances, he doesn't mention 90 minutes. Liverpool absolutely have had good periods during the season and in games, but they haven't had 90 minutes. That's what was so good about the Galatasaray one, because for 90 minutes, they were dominant. For 90 minutes, they absolutely were in charge, and for 90 minutes, that's how they wanted to play and be. But unfortunately, those 90 minutes this season are few and far between, to the point that I can't remember the last one before the Galatasaray game. So, I'd have to take him to task on the good performances. I would say that at times, they've caught fire and they've created chances. Generally, they haven't taken those chances, which is why they've ended up dropping so many points, because the back door always seems to be open. So, yeah, I would suggest that the Virgil isn't talking about 90 minutes, because there haven't been a lot of solid 90 minutes. It was TV, Xhaka. Yeah, I will say, though, I feel as though we've heard this or some version of it at different points during the season.