Aston Villa v PSG Post-Match Thread

[ChicagoLion]

Errors and missed chances did for us in the end. Incredibly brave performance.
The ref did all he could to help them on his way. Even worse than the first leg.
Villa Park should ban drums.

[walsall villain]

I wonder if any of the Rotterdam lads would have surpassed the hallowed 6/10.

Withe 4/10, little impact on the game and lucky with his goal

[Ian.]

Only heroes and certainly no villains last night.

[Flamingo Lane]

I don't understand why the club allowed those drums into the ground. Listening to the game on my laptop, with headphones, they sounded absolutely terrible, I wonder how it was at the ground.

[Clampy]

It's mad to think that at 5-1 down, we could have gone through in normal time, never mind extra time.

[ADVILLAFAN]

Not sure they should let rubbish like PSG into the Champion's League.

It should be for the bigger and better sides, like Villa amd Dortmund.

[cdbearsfan]

I don't understand why the club allowed those drums into the ground. Listening to the game on my laptop, with headphones, they sounded absolutely terrible, I wonder how it was at the ground.

It's only happened with PSG and Celtic. My guess is that we have stewards dealing with away fans for domestic games and they confiscate them. However, in Europe, the police are in charge, and they would rather let the drums in than create a potential flashpoint to start fans fighting and causing trouble.

[darren woolley]

So proud of them last night great win great performance.

[LeeB]

Errors and missed chances did for us in the end. Incredibly brave performance.
The ref did all he could to help them on his way. Even worse than the first leg.
Villa Park should ban drums.

We absolutely should, and we should advertise the fact that we do and be proud of it in the hope others will follow suit.

This kind of aresholery has no place in English football, anti-social bullshit, football equivalent of those peanut brained twats with exploding exhausts.

[Abbeyfealeavfc]

A fantastic effort by the 11 players of Aston Villa against the 14 of psg. There's much to be proud of in our display. It's just a shame that in the knockout phase uefa (ably abetted by their officials) appear to be deciding who they want to progress at the expense of fair play.
Not every Villa performance was sterling last night (Pau defensively, Rashford 1st half, Kamara inexplicably), but after that 2nd half performance, led by McGinn and Tielemans and a much improved Rashford, it didn't matter. We were outstanding and only their goalkeeper and weak refereeing in bottling the big decisions prevented us from progressing after being 5-1 down on aggregate, which we would have thoroughly deserved. Take a bow Unai and the Villa team for serving up a special night! UTV!

[RamboandBruno]

Was too tired and emotional to
Post last night, but ended up watching the replay of the game on amazon when i got in, so even more tired and emotional today. The quote SE posted from Enrique summed it up, we battered the seeming best side in Europe for much of the second half, even after the blow of going 0-2/1-5 down. Pure courage, skill and heart from the players and tactical genius from Emery.
Although we are out, given the brilliant opposition and the stage of that competition, probably one of the greatest nights Ive been down VP.

I just hope that rather than knock the stuffing out of them, this gives them motivation to finish the season in style by grabbing 4th/5th and winning the holy grail.

As for the PSG supporters, my son commented at one point, are they even watching the game! Plastics with a tinge of the massively annoying Palace drumming.

[Astnor]

Great win and display. When we got going we where superior. Very proud of the team. Even it is all about the team McGinn, Tielemans and Konsa show their world class in games like this. Rashford also showed how potent he can be. Also our soft spots of the game will come to show when meeting top teams like getting punished on counter when loosing ball in our build up, missed chances (even we didnt do too bad yesterday) and our RB problems. We are not far away of being the very best team in Europe on the/our day and the future look bright. Exiting times (football unpredictable though, regarding next seasons).
 

[Nev]

Errors and missed chances did for us in the end. Incredibly brave performance.
The ref did all he could to help them on his way. Even worse than the first leg.
Villa Park should ban drums.

We absolutely should, and we should advertise the fact that we do and be proud of it in the hope others will follow suit.

This kind of aresholery has no place in English football, anti-social bullshit, football equivalent of those peanut brained twats with exploding exhausts.

I love our European home games and having the visitors in the ground and around the City but I have no truck with the constant noise the continental fans make. After a while it turns into a drone and never reflects what is actually happening on the pitch. Our support followed the pattern of the game, from the crescendo at the start to the low hum of acceptance at 0-2, noisy optimism at HT to the roar of the comeback, ending with a huge wave of appreciation and pride at the end. Rather that than what PSG "offered" last night, and the "flag" display was the least intimidating thing I have ever seen, looked like a parody of a Trade Union protest.

[wince]

Quarter finalists in the CL, FA cup still to play for and in our hands to qualify for Europe again. Loved Emery’s interview last night when getting to Europe again in CL, Europa or Conference he is totally desperate to win something with us.

[VillaTim]

. The first leg extra time goal did for us.

Yep, that was the killer moment across the 2 legs . Frustrating to have run them so close , as so often in top level sport - fine margins.