The defeat of Paris Saint-Germain in Liverpool raises further questions about Thomas Tuchel's group of superegos

Tuesday night at Anfield showed again how much the Champions League means for Liverpool as a club, and yet the exacting reality for Paris Saint-Germain is that such results mean even more for them as a team.

This is the absurd case when your situation is so distorted that your entire season revolves around a handful of big games in this competition. Everything is amplified. No less slips, more defeats.

For the French champions, it was not these nights in Anfield with the kind of dramatic events that each team could undergo, but another seismic night that could say much more about the entire PSG project.

Thomas Tuchel tried to situate it in a predictable way in the context of the first, but inadvertently revealed many things about it.

"For me, the Champions League starts now and we have to move forward to win close matches," said the PSG boss, while adding a significant qualification for this tight match. "This Anfield … it was not the time to talk about tactics. If you play Anfield, it's not a tactical game. It's about feeling confident, playing fast, with confidence. You play easily.

As Tuchel would be more elaborate, Anfield's own experience can be so intimidating and make players understand that you do not want to make things even more complicated for them. You must give them easy instructions to perform in the electricity of such an occasion.

Except that it is also difficult not to wonder if this is more generally true for the PSG because of the electric charge that this ego can have. One of the discussions going on around the club is how these players will follow Tuchel's extremely precise instructions, and he is known as a manager to treat each individual in the same way; do not exempt anyone from their demanding requirements.

You would not have guessed Neymar's performance. He did what he always does, offering certainly more than a few moments where his talent allowed him to really raise him, but in the middle of many spells where he was almost at his own pace.

If Tuchel actually has specific plans to know where "Ney" – as he calls it somewhat humorously – should position himself when PSG is counter-pressing, they are still not clear.

Kylian Mbappe feels a much less complacent talent than the Brazilian, but he was not irreproachable in this respect either, and all this added to their bottom line which was regularly outdated.

The big question with this PSG is exactly the type of management they need.

This does not mean that the entire Tuchel regime has already been rejected, but there have been some alarms and warnings, even if individual quality covered a certain amount.

Do they need a strong and assertive manager, or a more facilitative manager in the guise of Zinedine Zidane? The latter seems apparently logical, but could Zidane even work in a club that does not have the identity and requirements inherent to Real Madrid? It makes a difference.

As a thought experiment, it is interesting to wonder how Jurgen Klopp could work with this side.

Would they respond to his motivation, or does he need the defiant spirit that Liverpool loves to live? Does his personality have the effect that others can not?

He was complementary to the team of his successor Borussia Dortmund.

"If you play against PSG, you have to reach the next level. If we play 95%, we can lose 5-0. We played 100% and we won. "

It was somehow exaggerating the difference between the sides, but does not exaggerate the Klopp effect.

It really makes them play 100% on these games and for the key spells.

Liverpool may have needed a late goal, but they still created the kind of hurricane that also won the games against Manchester City and Roma, as well as many league games.

And what has become really relevant with this Liverpool.

We may need to stop talking about the effect of Anfield with this team. It's about this team. It's about knowing how Klopp uses this atmosphere to improve what his team does so well, creating the perfect synchronicity that boosts everything: the sound, the noise, the noisy football and rock of the team.

It is a synchronicity beyond the PSG.

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