Unai Emerytechnician of Villarrealadmitted the superiority of Liverpool and said that the result “could have been worse”, recalling that the ‘red’ team had two goals disallowed and that theirs did not create any scoring chances at Anfield.
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“It will be different there”
“In the ‘semis’ you have to face the favorites and the surprise factor is diluted. Wanting to take control they haven’t let us, wanting to run we haven’t done it either… Today it was about resisting to try to have options in the second game. That’s where it will be different”, said the Hondarribia, leaving a small door open to hope.
“It’s Liverpool and we know that they are the favorites, that they are better, but also that we can compete with them. Today we have not done it. You have to relativize the negative results when you play a tie, it could have been worse”, he continued. Emery.
Looking ahead to the second leg, the Basque coach is clear that the game has to be “completely different. Today we had a plan and an idea that hasn’t come out, but I’m smiling because we’re in the semi-finals and we can score a goal to be in the tie,” he remarked.
By last, Emery repeated that the slab “could have been worse”, recalling the goals annulled to fabinho Y Robertson and that his team did not have any clear chance: “We have not had expectations of improving this result. We have 90 minutes and we will try to make it different”, concluded the former Arsenal.
