Standard Liege manager claims that Arsenal “had no mercy”

Standard Liege boss, Michel Preud’homme claims that Arsenal “had no mercy” when they played against them in the reverse fixture. And he knows that they won’t even in the future.

Standard Liege is awaiting the match with Arsenal in Belgium on Thurday night. 

“It’s of course a big club and we are very proud to play against them,” said Preud’homme.

“They had no mercy with us in the first leg, I hope that we can, at home, also show why we were in Europa League group. And for them even if they lose with 3-1 it’s not bad, for us it can be good.”

Liege has beat both Guimaraes and Frankfurt, having a very success rate in the Europa League. However, they still need to work hard to stay in it, even if they have a win against Aresenal.

“We fight all year, not just us, Belgian football in general, we fight to be in the Champions League,” added Preud’homme.

“We fight to be in Europa League. We say we must play in Europe and so on but then often we end up frustrated because maybe we don’t have the means that other countries have.

For Arsenal, losing to Liege can be catastrophic – it will not let them progress to the Europa League knockouts.

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