Aston Villa vs PSG: Reasons for Champions League hope as Unai Emery urges Villa players to write history

14 April 2025, 13:33 | Updated: 15 April 2025, 18:27

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery wants his side to "write history" by producing an epic comeback against Paris Saint-Germain to reach the Champions League semi-finals - but he will not use his own European knockout pedigree to motivate them.

Villa have a mountain to climb in Tuesday's quarter-final second leg at Villa Park as they trail 3-1 from last Wednesday's first match in France. However, coming back from a two-goal deficit is not an impossible task with teams doing so to progress 14 times.

Emery's side looked like returning to home soil with just a one-goal deficit but Nuno Mendes' stoppage-time effort at the Parc des Princes proved damaging.

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