Unai Emery will be stepping onto the Camp Nou pitch as Arsenal's manager two and a half years after suffering the biggest defeat of his career after Barcelona's Champions League record-breaking "remontada" against PSG.
On 14 February 2017, PSG celebrated Valentine's Day with a surprising crushing win over Luis Enrique's FC Barcelona in the Parc Des Princes. Di Maria, Cavani and Draxler were the players responsible for finally making PSG's Qatar sponsored dream come true.
However, weeks later, Unai Emery was ridiculed at the Camp Nou. The Basque coach, accustomed to the comebacks with Sevilla, suffered the biggest in Champions League history at the hands of Suarez, Messi, Neymar and Co.
Sergi Roberto got the final 6-1 in the 95th minute and Unai Emery would have crawled into a hole had it been an option. Years later, in an interview for 'beIN Sport's, the Basque coach admitted: "I wanted to escape from everywhere. I spent half an hour walking through the corridors of the Camp Nou, I don't know how many kicks I gave to the walls at that moment."
This Sunday, in a more relaxed atmosphere, Emery returns to the Camp Nou with Arsenal to dispute the Joan Gamper Trophy. Far from the PSG bench, the Spanish coach hopes to be able to settle the trauma that the humiliating defeat in the Champions League has left in him.