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Alexis Mac Allister opened up astir an speech helium had with Paris Saint-Germain guardant Ousmane Dembele during Liverpool's Champions League clash with the competition's eventual winner.
The Reds were the favorites to go European champions erstwhile they were drawn to look PSG successful the past 16, but a high-quality two-legged matter was settled by a punishment shootout, with the French broadside coming retired connected top.
The archetypal limb of the necktie took spot successful the French capital, erstwhile Alisson produced arguably the champion show of his career to acceptable Liverpool up for a smash-and-grab 1-0 win.
Early connected successful that game, Mac Allister was nutmegged by Dembele, arsenic the Argentina planetary recalled connected an occurrence of La Casa del Kun (The House of Kun), which is simply a chat amusement that Sergio 'Kun' Aguero stars in.
"When we played away, 5 oregon 10 minutes into the game, the feline (Dembele) was flying," Mac Allister said. "The shot was divided and I went with my ft unfastened and helium nutmegged me.
"He near maine and instantly the crippled stopped. He came to maine and said: 'Bro, don't travel truthful accelerated adjacent time.' That's what helium told me. And I told him, 'Don't worry, I'll enactment it connected your genu adjacent time.' The happening is, I ne'er managed to drawback him!"
Asked whether helium felt immoderate tendency to escalate the concern with Dembele arsenic a effect of the Frenchman's cheeky comment, Mac Allister responded: "No, it's not necessary. At the clip I wanted to termination him, but those things are good, it's not worthy making truthful overmuch of a fuss."
Dembele and PSG went connected to triumph the Champions League, eliminating Aston Villa and Arsenal successful the quarter-finals and semi-finals respectively, earlier trouncing Inter Milan 5-0 successful the final.
Luis Enrique's broadside gained plentifulness of plaudits connected the mode to lifting the trophy, and Mac Allister was among the team's admirers, describing PSG arsenic "the champion squad successful the world."
"They're flying," Mac Allister said. "They person everything: they're precise disciplined, they play good with the ball, they each run. For me, they're the best."
Regarding the team's champion player, Mac Allister responded: "They're each good: fig 7, who played for Napoli (Khvicha Kvaratskhelia), is simply a star."
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