Aston Villa v PSG Post-Match Thread

[The Edge]

I said in a pre match comment that if we can get Villa Park rocking and get stuck into them anything could happen. Also I wanted them to leave Villa Park rattled to their core even if we didn't quite make it. The spirit of Agincourt if you will. I'm gutted to go out but I'm absolutely chuffed to bits that I got everything else I wished for. This team  this manager came of age tonight. The sky's the absolute limit for us now and we haven't needed the funds of an oil rich country to get here. I could not be more proud to be a Villa fan tonight.

[Legion]

Great game. Best team we've played in over a decade and showed just how good we are.

[aj2k77]

I want another game now. Bring on Newcastle and their topless titty babies.

[eamonn]

Might not be one of our players, and been mentioned before but I'm impressed that Prime have a person to interview people in their native tongue AND is a decent interviewer anyway. Good words for us by their captain. Shame he wasn't going disappointed but oh well.

Great language skills but the questions were the same clichés. How happy are you? How difficult was it? How confident are you?

[KevinGage]

Perfect advertisement for any upwardly mobile player looking to join in the summer.

Beat prob the best side in Europe at the moment and should've won the tie.

[Smithy]

They dominated Liverpool at Anfield, but had to cling on against us at VP.  They're unbeaten all season in their league, and haven't conceded 3 goals in a game in over a year. Any neutral watching that match knows that Aston Villa is a serious team these days.

I'm gutted, and also very proud.

[Rory]

All this positivity and sense of perspective is getting dull.

I say we all dress up like Peaky Blinders and start punching each other!

[eamonn]

so anyway, who ballsed up the CL music?

Hookey's new job at Villa Park. Early days, takes a while to get used to.

[Somniloquism]

Might not be one of our players, and been mentioned before but I'm impressed that Prime have a person to interview people in their native tongue AND is a decent interviewer anyway. Good words for us by their captain. Shame he wasn't going disappointed but oh well.

Great language skills but the questions were the same clichés. How happy are you? How difficult was it? How confident are you?

I meant more on being quite natural in front of camera which is not an easy skill either whilst having to translate on the fly.

[Flamingo Lane]

I don't usually comment on referees, but this fella went from being poor in the first 75 minutes, to a man on a mission after that.

[The Edge]

I don't usually comment on referees, but this fella went from being poor in the first 75 minutes, to a man on a mission after that.

Only 3 minutes injury time was a travesty.

[eamonn]

It's a real shame that our substitutions had the reverse effect intended. Ramsey and Watkins barely touched the ball. As for Asensio's one moment....he telegraphed where he was going to shoot but Donnarumma had already committed to attempting a point-blank save. Easy to say but Asensio has it in his locker to feint on the shot, pull it wide to his right and run through on goal to slot the ball into an empty net.

We just couldn't build-up a head of steam for the last 10 minutes. PSG deserve credit for not allowing that to happen and they continued to look dangerous on the break. But unless Rashford was physically phucked, I would have left him on as he was beginning to purr.

Hard to be too despondent though, we gave our all and showed battle and quality. Just hope the players can pick themselves up for the weekend as if we replicate that, we'll funeral the Toon.

[eamonn]

Might not be one of our players, and been mentioned before but I'm impressed that Prime have a person to interview people in their native tongue AND is a decent interviewer anyway. Good words for us by their captain. Shame he wasn't going disappointed but oh well.

Great language skills but the questions were the same clichés. How happy are you? How difficult was it? How confident are you?

I meant more on being quite natural in front of camera which is not an easy skill either whilst having to translate on the fly.

Fair point, I was being a bit bitchy.

[Paul.S]

Can’t ask anymore from the lads.
Absolutely superb, all of them and in the end we should’ve taken them to extra time. What a comeback, superb spirit and a huge amount of class to boot.
Now let’s get back in it next season and win that FA Cup as well.

UTFV

[Ducksworthy]

I was just reading the Guardian match report and I quite loved PSG squinting into the whirlwind:

He needed the mother and father of all comebacks as the second half started and yet there was no diluting Villa’s belief. They continued to bring the intensity, to play their football. The crowd stayed with them, how they stayed with them and by the hour mark, Villa were back in it. PSG squinted into the whirlwind.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2025/apr/15/aston-villa-psg-champions-league-quarter-final-match-report