The young Reds took the lead in Friday\u2019s match at PSG\u2019s Youth Academy but the hosts hit back and ran out 3-1 winners.<\/p>\n
PSG invited Liverpool to their base on the outskirts of Paris for a warm-up fixture ahead of their UEFA Youth League semi-final versus Real Madrid next week.<\/p>\n
For Page\u2019s team, meanwhile, the game served as preparation for the upcoming Premier League 2 elimination play-offs.<\/p>\n
Calvin Ramsay put the visitors ahead with a superb goal and they could have gone 2-0 up soon after when Will Wright won a penalty at the end of a neat passage of play. However, the striker missed from the spot and PSG responded strongly thereafter.<\/p>\n
Head coach Page told Liverpoolfc.com: \u201cI was really pleased with aspects of the performance and we were up against a very good PSG team. We went 1-0 through a brilliant solo goal by Rambo, a great finish that gave us a good start.<\/p>\n
\u201cWill reacted really well to missing the penalty because he had another two or three clear-cut chances. He\u2019ll be disappointed that he didn\u2019t score but in development football, that\u2019s all part of his learning.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe reason we have these games against top defenders is to expose him to those moments and hopefully the more he is exposed to them, the more consistent he will become in his final actions.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe lads defended really, really well \u2013 I can\u2019t fault their attitude and application at all. We were up against a very, very good PSG team that played similar to their first team with a bit of fluidity and freedom from an attacking point of view.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the main we coped with it well, but the one moment we didn\u2019t quite get right by allowing them to play through the middle of us resulted in a goal.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut there are a lot of learnings to take for the lads and it was a great experience as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s never a bad thing to play against top-class opposition and I think even in defeats you are learning all the time. So, we\u2019ll review the game, we\u2019ll feed it back to the players and that will help us become better.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere\u2019s always positive moments and something you can take from it, even in defeats, in youth development and hopefully it will help us and put us in good stead for the play-offs in a couple of weeks.\u201d<\/p>\n
Josh Sonni-Lambie and Joe Bradshaw joined the U21s group for the trip and, on the former, Page said: \u201cJosh had a good game and it was a great learning experience for him as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cMore so defensively, as he had to be really disciplined in his defensive shape because of the possession they had, and that\u2019s an aspect that all young, modern strikers need to have and work on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The young Reds took the lead in Friday\u2019s match at PSG\u2019s Youth Academy but the hosts hit back…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5068,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2896,2897,1496,2892,2886,2898,2900,2899,2887,2891,2890,2885,2895,30,2888,2893,2889,2894],"class_list":["post-5067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-paris","tag-alisson","tag-firmino","tag-homepage","tag-klopp","tag-lfc","tag-lfc-news","tag-lfctv","tag-lfctv-go","tag-liverpool-fc","tag-liverpool-fc-match","tag-liverpool-fc-news","tag-liverpool-football-club","tag-mane","tag-paris","tag-reds","tag-salah","tag-the-reds","tag-van-dijk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5067\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/france\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}