Boss Aston Villa Boss Unai Emery wants his party to “write history” by creating an epic comeback against Paris Saint-Germain to achieve the Champions League semifinals-but for their motivation will not use its own European knockout.
Villa has a mountain on Tuesday’s quarterfinals of the second stage in Villa Park when they become 3-1 of the first center of the first match in France. However, the return from the two goals deficit is not an impossible task with the teams that do so 14 times.
Emery’s side looked like a return to home land with a mere deficit of one goal, but Nuno Mendes’ efforts to stop in the parc des princes turned out to be harmful.
The chances are against Villa in their debut season in the Champions League, but Emery knows everything about European comebacks, great PSG manager, when in 2017 they squirted the leadership of the first leg on the first leg.
And he wants his party to create his own story.
“I have experience, positively and negatively – two ways,” Emery said about his comeback history.
“Now we have something else – we want to write history with Aston Villa.
“My experience is different. Sometimes we lost and then we won at home, sometimes we lost at home and won. Sometimes more victories than loss, but I also have some negative experiences.
“I will not remind players of this experience, every word with players inside who send messages is how we do this in this way we gain our own experience here.
“With the combination we have: mentally, individually and tactically, we can be so demanding in our process to gain opportunities and believe, we can defeat PSG.”
Asked if the third goal PSG scored in the first stage, he gave his team too much, Emery said, “2-1 and 3-1 will change something. Much? No.
“Why? Because we have to win at 2-1 and we have to win at 3-1. Now we have to win in our expectations with one other goal.
“Tactically, we try to do our best with our experience, an individual and collective idea to face them.
“We have to believe and show how our wishes, but also respect it in the same way we have done there.
“But at the same time we try to use Villa Park as our home and our fortress. We have felt it many times, we want to share a motivated match.”
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Emery also believes that Villa’s home support will be essential if they are to find their way back to custody against PSG.
“PSG has a lot of experience in playing in matches,” he said. “They play in France and Europe and we also have.
“But we connect with our supporters and carry energy, more or less, if so, tactically and individually, good things in the field, supporters will build our energy and help us a lot.
“They will always transmit this energy for our players.”
“If someone can turn it, it is us”
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Paul Merson said that hope Aston Villa to advance around the quarterfinal of the Champions League is not done and dusted but the third goal PSG was big
Morgan Rogers, who built Villa 1-0 in Paris last week, says his party believes they can do comeback.
“There is a huge faith in the dressing room,” Rogers said. “I know that most people wrote us off before this tie. But in the first leg we described well.
“Of course, there are things we needed to improve, but we know (PSG) now. There is a task on our hands.
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Merse couldn’t hide her excitement when Morgan Rogers built Aston Villa in Paris
“There are not many better places under the lights at home in the quarterfinals of this competition.
“Everyone will turn it, it will be us. It’s up to us and we’re excited about this challenge.
“It will be difficult and I am not saying we will do it, but we will definitely do it and go there to win.”
“Watkins feels fantastic”
Ollie Watkins celebrates the opener of Villa in Southampton
The big point of speaking from Emery’s press conference was around that could start in advance for Villa.
Ollie Watkins admitted that she was not happy on Aston Villa, with an English striker who manages a knee problem and only four of the last five Villa matches start as a replacement.
But his sparkling 25-minute portrait against Southampton at the weekend could well persuade Boss Emery to choose him for the second leg of the Champions League on make-or-break against PSG.
“He showed us that he feels fantastic,” Emery said. “He scored goals, playing 30 minutes really well (against Southampton).
“This is the diversity we have with our players. We have to try to use their quality to help the team – whether 30 minutes, 10 minutes or five minutes. This is the mentality we need.”
Marcus Rashford launched the last two Villa games in position 9 and Emery indicated that he wanted to pair him with Watkins in the future.
He added, “The next step – if I have time – is to play them together.
“We did with Rashford that played the left side, but now we choose more with playing as attackers. That’s the next step. I want to practice, I want to test, but not now, with enough time.”
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Rashford or Watkins – Who should start the villa?
Sky Sports News’ Danyal Khan in Aston Villa’s training area:
“After hearing from Morgan Rogers and Unai Emery at their intelligence conferences, I would describe them as business.
“They both radiated the absolute belief that Villa could overturn the deficit of two goals – Rogers told me that he felt that people wrote their side before the ball was kicked into Paris.
“But now they played them and had the experience – they are ready to go with everything they have in Villa Park.
“The interesting aspect of Emery’s cottage was, as he really sees Marcus Rashford as No. 9 in this side of the villa – so it brings a dilemma with a selection of keys: Who begins?
“Ollie Watkins after her fantastic goal in Southampton at the weekend or Rashford will continue? He has previous winners and comebacks against PSG…”
