Unai Emery began his night camouflaged from the Birmingham rain, hood pulled down over his eyes. He ended it lying on the sodden grass, presumably soaked by his disappointment.
He had sunk to his knees and then collapsed to the turf when Ian Maatsen’s injury-time volley was blocked by Willian Pacho. It may have been going wide anyway but Emery, forever an animated presence in the technical area, was living every moment.
