Aston Villa v PSG Post-Match Thread

[Hookeysmith]

Dembele MOTM was a bizarre choice. To be fair to him, I've seen footage where he's refusing the trophy.

Yes, I read that he was very angry we got so close to equalising and didn't want it, but had to be pictured with it.

Correct. Pushed it away. Only came back out due to the power of sponsors. I would of gave it to thier keeper who clearly won the game for them

[rob_bridge]

Dembele MOTM was a bizarre choice. To be fair to him, I've seen footage where he's refusing the trophy.

Yes, I read that he was very angry we got so close to equalising and didn't want it, but had to be pictured with it.

Correct. Pushed it away. Only came back out due to the power of sponsors. I would of gave it to thier keeper who clearly won the game for them

Is this a joke? He wasn't anywhere near their best player.

2 Full Backs who scored and Goalie were more deserving. For them - off the top of my head.

And about 6 of ours.

Dembele had a chance to put Doue in with about 10 mins(?) to go to seal it and shot wildly over.

[Percy McCarthy]

Just watched the minds 55 - 60 again.

If only Tielemans's header had gone in. I wanted that moment. Imagine the rush of euphoria and emotion that would have happened. Regardless of whether or not we went through. To have got it back level from 5-1 down, I just really wanted that moment. Imagine how loud the roar would have been.

That third goal last week didn't kill us at all BTW and despite what many said, the tie wasn't over going into the second leg. Hopefully that will be a lesson to some of our fans to stop being so pessimistic and writing us off so quickly. And this kind of applies to me too, as when we went 2-0 down last night I was sure at that point it was gone.

I know what you mean but tbh I had the full on mental celebration for the third. One of those where I can't quite remember what happened and have a slight headache afterwards. A bit like poppers.

Me too. Me & the kids were jumping up and down and hugging. Maybe all subconsciously thinking ‘this might be our last goal’.

[dave shelley]

It put me in mind of Pat McMahon's winner against Manure in the second leg of the league cup semi-final in 1971.  If you are old enough to have been there then you will know.

[Somniloquism]

That third goal last week didn't kill us at all BTW and despite what many said, the tie wasn't over going into the second leg. Hopefully that will be a lesson to some of our fans to stop being so pessimistic and writing us off so quickly. And this kind of applies to me too, as when we went 2-0 down last night I was sure at that point it was gone.

I think most posters on here were more stating that we could win the second leg still, just not by more then one goal or probably couldn't stop PSG from scoring some here. Hence the downer of letting in very late in Paris. Of course we came closer to getting the two goal advantage and they needed a very good block on the line in the very dying seconds. 

[LeeB]

We didn't do it but the chances were there, it's never over.

It can surely only add to the belief of the squad in the games coming up that whatever situation we do get into we have the ability to recover regardless of the opposition.

[jon collett]

That third goal last week didn't kill us at all BTW and despite what many said, the tie wasn't over going into the second leg. Hopefully that will be a lesson to some of our fans to stop being so pessimistic and writing us off so quickly. And this kind of applies to me too, as when we went 2-0 down last night I was sure at that point it was gone.

I think most posters on here were more stating that we could win the second leg still, just not by more then one goal or probably couldn't stop PSG from scoring some here. Hence the downer of letting in very late in Paris. Of course we came closer to getting the two goal advantage and they needed a very good block on the line in the very dying seconds.

If only we’d put the ball out of play at every opportunity in injury time to run down the clock. Something sides don’t think to do now. We were almost too cute unfortunately. It felt a hammer blow at the time and their supporters near to me were very relieved.

[ChicagoLion]

Apparently the ball was out of play for 14 minutes 8 seconds (3 minutes added on!), this is on top of the Lino letting 2 blatant offsides go in the second half  which they got corners from.
Then the fouls the ref let go for them and penalised us multiple times.
I am sure the Qatari bank account will come in handy at some point.

[LeeB]

Apparently the ball was out of play for 14 minutes 8 seconds (3 minutes added on!), this is on top of the Lino letting 2 blatant offsides go in the second half  which they got corners from.
Then the fouls the ref let go for them and penalised us multiple times.
I am sure the Qatari bank account will come in handy at some point.

There was a blatant offiside that we ended up getting a corner from in the second half, the 'not putting the flag up because of VAR' has led to a lot more of those situautions and it does my head in.

[Somniloquism]

Apparently the ball was out of play for 14 minutes 8 seconds (3 minutes added on!), this is on top of the Lino letting 2 blatant offsides go in the second half  which they got corners from.
Then the fouls the ref let go for them and penalised us multiple times.
I am sure the Qatari bank account will come in handy at some point.

Still doesn't explain why they paid for only 1 minute of time in the first half.

[Sexual Ealing]

They haven't been playing much added time in Europe all season. It normally makes a nice change from the now-routine 10 minutes for PL games, but we clearly should've had much more on Tuesday with eight subs, five goals and the ref on his arse for ages.

[London Villan]

3 minutes was a joke (subs, goals, ref falling over, time-wasting) - as was 1 minute in the first half (VAR checks, time wasting etc). Realistically, we should have had a least another 10 minutes of football - although in hindsight, once McGinn and Rashford were subbed, we seemed to lose our tempo and probably wouldn't have scored!

[Somniloquism]

I agree we should have had more. I think it was 6 and 10 in Wednesday matches. But the same ref only gave 1 min in the first half when there was three goals, so was just incompetent on his time keeping rather then corrupt as certain posters are hinting at.

[Pat McMahon]

It put me in mind of Pat McMahon's winner against Manure in the second leg of the league cup semi-final in 1971.  If you are old enough to have been there then you will know.

I don’t think this gets talked about often enough😁

[SaddVillan]

Not good

From The Athletic

Three Aston Villa fans arrested in connection with hate crime offences at PSG game

Separately, another Villa fan was arrested on suspicion of assault while three PSG supporters were arrested, one on suspicion of assaulting a steward and two for affray.

“We had a visible policing operation in place during the Aston Villa and PSG fixture on Tuesday night,” a WMP statement read.

“The vast majority of supporters helped to make the game memorable for the great occasion it was.

“Any form of hate crime or violence won’t be tolerated and we’re working alongside Aston Villa as part of our investigation.”

No mention of that wanker with the drum.