You can cherry pick whichever statistics you want. Another one is that there has been at least 1 English teams in 5 of the last 6 European Cup finals.
And most English teams treat the Europa League like a total inconvenience these days so what you're saying proves very little.
No it doesn't. Prove it hat English teams treat it as nothing. As this season both Liverpool and city got knocked out playing their full teams.
Hodgson admitted: "It's up to me to try and choose a team tomorrow that will firstly win the game and secondly possibly give some of the players that are going to be needed against United a break.
neesy's right though, Man City and Liverpool played full strength teams.