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 chic targets from Want Doue, Khvicha Kvaratskhelia and Nuno Mendes accomplished the comeback for the dominant Ligue 1 champions.
The end result means Emery’s facet 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 workforce have the aptitude of inflicting an upset subsequent week at Villa Park.
“Kind of 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’ll play at house subsequent week. It would nonetheless be an enormous problem for us however we are able to really feel robust at house with our assist.
“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. In fact the end result shouldn’t be good for us however it might be one constructive to be at house the place we are able to get our momentum and use our energy.
“We consider in our assist, we consider in Villa Park. We consider the gamers can provide one of the best 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 thing and try to win the tie and, in the end, we’ll see the place it takes us,” stated Rogers.
“We didn’t wish to come right here [Paris] and simply be spectators. We wished to participate and try to compete and I felt we did that for big elements. Clearly the scoreline shouldn’t be 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 motive. We wish to combat, we wish to try to win and in the end we’ve acquired sufficient high quality to trigger any workforce 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 maintain believing that we are able to do it and see the place it takes us. We’ve positively acquired 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.
