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 targets from Need Doue, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Nuno Mendes accomplished the comeback for the dominant Ligue 1 champions.
The outcome means Emery’s aspect have a monumental job on their fingers 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 assist his crew 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 outcome, possibly there may be not a lot distinction between 2-1 and 3-1 as a result of we’ll play at dwelling subsequent week. It’s going to nonetheless be an enormous problem for us however we will really feel robust at dwelling with our assist.
“We knew earlier than the match we wanted to be scientific and we have been scientific within the first half. The second half not.
“The match is the primary leg. After all the outcome will not be good for us but it surely could possibly be one constructive to be at dwelling the place we will get our momentum and use our energy.
“We consider in our assist, we consider in Villa Park. We consider the gamers can provide the perfect efficiency subsequent week.”
Rogers echoed the feelings of his supervisor, including that the gamers don’t have anything to lose.
“We’ve obtained one other leg to attempt to flip it round and we’re going to go for all the pieces and attempt to win the tie and, in the end, 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 attempt to compete and I felt we did that for big elements. Clearly the scoreline will not be nice however we’ve obtained one other recreation and we’re going to attempt to flip it round.
“We’ve got obtained the standard to show this round.”
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“We’ve obtained high quality in our dressing room. We’re right here for a purpose. We need to battle, we need to attempt to win and in the end we’ve obtained sufficient high quality to trigger any crew on the planet issues.
“We’ve obtained 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 obtained to maintain going for it and hold believing that we will do it and see the place it takes us. We’ve undoubtedly obtained the standard to show this round so it’s not finished but.”
Villa welcome PSG to Villa Park on Tuesday night, with kick-off at 20:00 UK time.
