I know it's a joke and a bit of banter, but the German teams weren't doing much "harvesting" that last three years when no German team could get past the quarter finals in the CL.
No, because their game in hand is against Chelsea who are also playing in the FA Cup, and even if they weren't would have been playing Brighton this weekend.
Unless Emery makes a lot of changes, I can see this being like the Brentford game, and can see a draw as we'll be very tired.
If we can get a draw here, with the players better rested we can beat Chelsea. 4 points from these two games would not be the worst return.
Hopefully we get a better ref than the last one that we had v Bournemouth, who kept letting their players away with yellows while booking ours, Semenyo should have been sent off in the last game, but was allowed to stay on and score.
That's what I was thinking, the pen shootoout yellow card is not on UEFA website. So, either wasn't given (ref changed his mind) or it doesn't count (same as goals in pen shootout dont count to a players career stats).
God, I hope we shit on the Klopp farewell parade on MNF, would be glorious.
Imagine an Emery mastercalss to secure us 4th on Klopp's final away game, who no doubt the buildup will be all about.
I think that will be the case for quite a few of their players. Seems to happen to team like Lille, Monaco, Ajax etc. They build a great team, then sell them all.
I don't see how this breaks the new rules. Bentaleb was nowhere near the ball when Emi lifted it, he was still walking over. It would have been different if Emi walked over and lifted the ball after the taker had set it down or lifted it.