"Barca's 6-1 win? I'd change the ref, but players were hiding away"

In a chat with Granada coach Diego Martinez, his assistant when Unai Emery was at Sevilla, Emery did not hesitate in calling Barca's historic comeback against PSG (6-1) in the Champions League last 16 second leg as "the worst moment" of his managerial career.

"I would change the referee from that game," the Basque coach said when reviewing German official Deniz Aytekin's performance: "There are many details in that match you can analyse. But I would change the referee and that's it."

The coach also remembered a glaring miss by Cavani, a penalty not given for a foul on Di Maria and the free-kick awarded which led to Neymar making it 4-1.

Emery made some surprising comments when he criticised one of the PSG footballers. "In that period of the game (from the 50th until the 82nd minute), I saw that an important player for us, who had had problems during the week, was hiding himself away. Perhaps I should have changed him. Those small things are what can see a game slip away from you."

The then PSG coach criticised the attitude of some of the Barcelona players that night. "Then there is another key thing: the Barca players, especially Suarez, kept on diving in the box, putting lots of pressure on the referee until he fell for it," explained an Emery who said Neymar was almost as good as Leo Messi and Cristiano Ronaldo.