but if we evaluate the current state of the teams, I do not think that PSG is much weaker than Liverpool.
Yes, it could be, but only in the UCL.
In Ligue 1 I think that all the teams, including PSG, don't put in that much effort, because they know the teams very well, they know that if they increase their effort, PSG will win without much, but in the UCL, PSG against Liverpool, many things can happen , In addition, Luis Enrique is a coach who has gained more and more credibility, and for that reason it can be said that he has studied Liverpool a lot and must already know the team's vulnerabilities , This coach is very calculating.
I was thinking that Luis Enrique will be a better coach to help PSG win the Champions League, but without Mbappe, the team have less hype and their performance was not as usual even though the team is becoming balance this days, but we can’t use the League1 to judge the team’s performance alone because they have taken over the league since no team is there to compete with them, that is why I want to use this Champions League group stage to judge the team overall performance and possible predictions against their next match against Liverpool.
Based on Champions League performance this season, Liverpool is ahead of PSG because they finish first in the Champions League group stage and they lost just one match; while PSG manage to make it to the playoff but showed their strength in the playoff which is why the debate of either they are stronger against Liverpool or not.
Nevertheless, I am in support of Liverpool because PSG is not a team to rely on in the Champions League based on experience and how they have bottled their leads some seasons back, while Liverpool is in good form and have more quality and experienced players than PSG even though PSG’s coach have more Champions League experience than Liverpool’s Arne Slot.