Unai Emery insists his Aston Villa facet 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 elegant targets from Want Doue, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Nuno Mendes accomplished the comeback for the dominant Ligue 1 champions.
The consequence means Emery’s facet have a monumental process 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 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 consequence, perhaps there’s not a lot distinction between 2-1 and 3-1 as a result of we are going to play at residence subsequent week. It should nonetheless be an enormous problem for us however we will really feel sturdy at residence with our help.
“We knew earlier than the match we would have liked to be medical and we had been medical within the first half. The second half not.
“The match is the primary leg. After all the consequence is just not good for us however it might be one optimistic to be at residence the place we will get our momentum and use our energy.
“We consider in our help, we consider in Villa Park. We consider the gamers may give the perfect efficiency subsequent week.”
Rogers echoed the feelings of his supervisor, including that the gamers don’t have anything to lose.
“We’ve acquired one other leg to try to flip it round and we’re going to go for every part and try to win the tie and, in the end, we’ll see the place it takes us,” mentioned Rogers.
“We didn’t wish to come right here [Paris] and simply be spectators. We needed to participate and try to compete and I felt we did that for giant components. Clearly the scoreline is just not nice however we’ve acquired one other recreation and we’re going to try to flip it round.
“We have now acquired the standard to show this round.”
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“We’ve acquired high quality in our dressing room. We’re right here for a purpose. We wish to combat, we wish to try to win and in the end we’ve acquired sufficient high quality to trigger any group on the planet issues.
“We’ve acquired 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 acquired to maintain going for it and preserve believing that we will do it and see the place it takes us. We’ve undoubtedly acquired the standard to show this round so it’s not accomplished but.”
Villa welcome PSG to Villa Park on Tuesday night, with kick-off at 20:00 UK time.
