Aston Villa 3 PSG 2 (4-5 agg) – Comeback win not quite enough for Emery’s side in Champions League classic
“Aston Villa are out of the Champions League after a 3-2 win against Paris Saint-Germain saw them lose 5-4 on aggregate to the Ligue 1 winners. The home side’s energetic start mirrored the heady atmosphere inside Villa Park, but PSG absorbed it and used Villa’s understandable need to attack against them, scoring twice from typically rapid counter-attacks. The first came from Achraf Hakimi after Emi Martinez had spilled a cutback, the second from his fellow full-back Nuno Mendes. …”
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