Unai Emery insists his Aston Villa aspect nonetheless have perception regardless of falling to a 3-1 defeat to PSG of their Champions League quarter-final first leg in Paris on Wednesday.
Morgan Rogers had given Villa a shock lead at a raucous Parc des Princes after 35-minutes, however chic objectives from Need Doue, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Nuno Mendes accomplished the comeback for the dominant Ligue 1 champions.
The end result means Emery’s aspect have a monumental job on their arms within the second leg if they’re to have any hope of progressing to the final 4 of Europe’s elite membership competitors.
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However the Villa boss believes with the house help his group have the aptitude of inflicting an upset subsequent week at Villa Park.
“Roughly the expectation I had in 90 minutes [tonight] occurred,” admitted Emery.
“The end result, perhaps there’s not a lot distinction between 2-1 and 3-1 as a result of we are going to play at dwelling subsequent week. It’ll nonetheless be an enormous problem for us however we are able to really feel sturdy at dwelling with our help.
“We knew earlier than the match we wanted to be medical and we have been medical within the first half. The second half not.
“The match is the primary leg. In fact the end result just isn’t good for us nevertheless it may very well be one optimistic to be at dwelling the place we are able to get our momentum and use our energy.
“We consider in our help, we consider in Villa Park. We consider the gamers may give the very best efficiency subsequent week.”
Rogers echoed the emotions of his supervisor, including that the gamers don’t have anything to lose.
“We’ve received one other leg to try to flip it round and we’re going to go for all the things and try to win the tie and, finally, we’ll see the place it takes us,” mentioned Rogers.
“We didn’t need to come right here [Paris] and simply be spectators. We wished to participate and try to compete and I felt we did that for giant elements. Clearly the scoreline just isn’t nice however we’ve received one other recreation and we’re going to try to flip it round.
“We’ve received the standard to show this round.”
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“We’ve received high quality in our dressing room. We’re right here for a motive. We need to struggle, we need to try to win and finally we’ve received sufficient high quality to trigger any group on the planet issues.
“We’ve received nothing to lose. Nobody had us to win the tie within the first place so why not simply go for it. That’s the mentality I’ve, that’s the mentality all of us have and the supervisor has.
“We’ve simply received to maintain going for it and hold believing that we are able to do it and see the place it takes us. We’ve undoubtedly received the standard to show this round so it’s not carried out but.”
Villa welcome PSG to Villa Park on Tuesday night, with kick-off at 20:00 UK time.
