Unai Emery warns Liverpool they will ‘suffer’ in Champions League semi-final second leg despite Reds dominating Villarreal at Anfield

Villarreal boss Unai Emery says Liverpool deserved their win on Wednesday night – but insists the Reds will ‘suffer’ when they travel to Spain for the second leg.

Emery’s side had just one shot at Anfield as they lost 2-0 in the Champions League semi-final first leg.

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Emery believes Liverpool will find the second leg a lot tougher than the first

And although the ex-Arsenal boss was pleased with most aspects of his side’s first-half performance, he believes the second leg at the Estadio de la Cermica will be ‘very, very different’ from the first.

“We can’t say anything about their victory because they deserve it”, Emery said after the game. 

“And the first half for us was really good but we didn’t achieve some things in attack to do good counter-attacks and good transitions. 

“They had two or three chances to score but we defended the box and the goal better than we did in the second half. 

“But the second half was the same, they pushed and they deserved to score. 2-0 is a good result for them. 

“For us, it’s not really a good result, but we are going to try to dream to do something different at home with our supporters. 

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Villarreal were comfortably beaten on Merseyside

“The match next week will be very, very different than tonight.” 

He added: “Obviously it’s very difficult. After they made it 2-0, you can go to try to score one goal. 

“We tried but when they have space to do transitions and with the players like they have, it’s more important to try to do that next week at home. 

“We’ll change something maybe tactically, but I think they are going to suffer more than tonight in the next leg.” 

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