Champions League / After Villarreal-Liverpool (2-3) / Jurgen Klopp: “What Unai Emery is doing is amazing”

The former Dortmund coach is well aware that his men’s second-half performances were decisive in allowing Liverpool to challenge for the European title. Because there was holy opposition. “Big respect for VillarrealThe Reds coach was fired. It’s a great stadium, and what they’re doing here, what Unai (Emery) is doing, it’s amazing. We deserved it, but this victory really comes from a great performance by the players. Back from 2-0… “

“We knew the effort would punish us.”

As Emery appreciates. The former Paris Saint-Germain coach has highlighted the work of his men to believe in an incredible achievement. Even if he suspected that the immorality of the energy to catch up with this handicap would be paid for. “In the break, I always thought it was going to be very difficult.Difficult, he said. The goal was to score the first goal to get close to “Remontada”. We did it. The second really encouraged us. We knew the effort in the first period would punish us later, but we had people willing to come off the bench.. “

But the Spanish technician did not have the weapons that Klopp does. Especially after the setback of Gerard Moreno, whose absence was very harmful to Villarreal in the first leg. “He told us he felt something about his injury so we didn’t take any risks, he really tried really hard to be there that evening (Tuesday)It is to explain. He was the only one who allowed us to fight duels close to their line of defense, and without him, we wouldn’t have any more. The team was not prepared to maintain this pace throughout the match. It was not enough. We missed a little thingBut that doesn’t take anything away from his team’s great run.