Aston Villa wins but fails to complete comeback against PSG

Aston Villa 3-2 PSG (4-5 on aggregate) Aston Villa had a dream, but it was crushed by the impressive PSG at Villa Park on Tuesday night. With a 3-2

Aston Villa 3-2 PSG (4-5 on aggregate)

Aston Villa had a dream, but it was crushed by the impressive PSG at Villa Park on Tuesday night. With a 3-2 first-leg win over the English side, PSG had a huge advantage to win the semi-finals slot. The French side quickly established itself as the team likely to qualify by taking a two-goal lead within

Hakimi put PSG ahead in the 11th minute after Eme Martinez had failed to simply deal with a cross from Dembele, with the ball falling to the Moroccan right back. Another counter-attack in the 27th minute saw left-back Nuno Mendes curling the ball to the bottom right corner to kill Aston Villa’s dream.

Youri Tielemans pulled one back in the 34th minute to give hope to the home fans. In the second half, John McGinn’s wonderful effort restored parity for Aston Villa in the 55th minute. Two minutes later, Ezra Konsa finished off a great move by Rashford, who dribbled easily past two PSG players to cut back the ball.

All Villa needed was the important goal, but substitute Marco Asensio missed a chance that no one up to now believes it. In the 70th minute, the former Real Madrid man had only Donnarumma to beat, but failed with the big shot stopper, who got the best of the forward.

PSG’s goalkeeper Donnaruma, who kept them in the tie, was praised by his manager, Luis Enrique, after the game. “I think so, simple as that. We cannot forget that this is the Champions League, and the other team is of a high quality. Aston Villa played with a lot of intensity. In the whole two matches, we deserved to win. The second year in a row in the semi-finals, and we want to go into the next phase. I think have the best squad in the world, not only the best goalkeeper. You have a lot of quality players at a club like PSG. That’s football and that’s competition.

Aston Villa’s super tactician expressed his delight in his team’s performance, even though they could not qualify.

I am very proud of everything we did this year in the Champions League. To get to this level is the next step forward. I want to build with Aston Villa.

We compete well in the first leg, but not another. Today we compete better, even, but not quite enough.

The last step forward, and this is my only circumstance, I want to try to work hard for our next process. But today was fantastic, how we enjoyed ourselves with our supporters.

In the last 25 minutes, we had the opportunity to draw.