Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp admits it was an emotional day as they drew 1-1 with Aston Villa.
Departing pair James Milner and Roberto Firmino both featured, with the latter scoring the equaliser in their last home appearance for the club.
Klopp said, Definitely, definitely [feeling emotional].
I saw now his [Firmino's] kids, I'm not sure, maybe the eldest one is older than seven probably, that means I know them all since they were babies. Same for Millie.
So, the two boys who came on obviously showed today immediately what we will miss. It's Millie's mentality; I don't want to underestimate really his football because he played really good football here and today again but the way he comes in a game, oh my God, whoever will do that for us in the next few years, that is a high, high bar because how many games he won for us in this way is insane.
Then Bobby comes on, plays top football, is between the lines and scores a fantastic goal. Wonderful story, well deserved the story.
This day was not an easy day for us no excuse for anything, it just was not easy because we all love these four boys. And it was clear somehow we have to prepare a little bit, you prepare here and there pictures, presents, these kinds of things, but first there's a super-important game. And this part of the day was, first half, not great I would say.
We were too much in a rush in both departments, with the ball, without the ball. Our pressing was not good, you could see we wanted but the timing was wow, 'Who is where?' That was not helpful. We played in their cards, they had moments in the game and they are a good football team obviously. They get a penalty, score their goal.
It was clear in the second half we have to calm down; increase the pressure but calm down in the right areas, and that's what we did. And then you could see the whole game was for Aston Villa super-intense as well, they were really done in the second half, cramps here and there and all these kinds of things. So we could create our moments. We scored a goal which was disallowed and scored a goal which was allowed, and so it's a draw and that's OK.
I think the whole season is rather a season where we qualify for Europa League than for Champions League. We were for too long not good enough or ourselves."