Liverpool were eliminated from the Champions League on Tuesday by Paris Saint-Germain on penalties. PSG scored the only goal of regulation in through Ousmane Dembele as both sides traded blows all night. The high intensity of the first leg carried through to the second, but both sides struggled to put the ball in the back of the net.

Germain's history in the Champions League was, until Tuesday, one of failure. It was a decade-plus of collapses and crashes, of colossal expectations unmet. It was megastars who never jelled and superteams who underwhelmed,