Aston Villa v Paris Saint-Germain: Champions League quarter-final, second leg – stay | Champions League
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Key occasions
78 min: Dembele is sprung into area down the precise. He’s acquired Doué free within the center, however chooses to curve in direction of the highest left as a substitute. Extensive. Excessive. He doesn’t attempt to catch Doué’s eye. In the meantime right here’s Espen B: “Is it too late for Villa to deliver Divock Origi on?”
77 min: Dembele has a whack from a good angle on the left. Martinez refuses to be overwhelmed at his close to publish. He turns the ball out for a nook, from which nothing comes.
76 min: Villa swap out Rashford and Digne with Watkins and Maatsen.
75 min: PSG take a bit of sting out of the sport with some sterile midfield play. It doesn’t calm the gang down, thoughts.
73 min: Kvaratskhelia nonetheless hasn’t contributed a lot. Doué has hardly featured since his introduction. Logically that is all excellent news for Villa. The extra anxious could think about it an uncomfortably ominous state of affairs.
71 min: Asensio strides into the PSG field down the within proper. He couldn’t, may he? Not this time. He sidefoots straight at Donnarumma. Then a Villa free kick out on the precise. Rashford teases it in. Konsa ought to rating, six yards out, however doesn’t join together with his header, which flashes weakly broad left. That is gloriously daft.
69 min: To the good credit score of the PSG followers, they’re nonetheless giving it every thing, regardless of the present course of journey. “McGinn’s splendid solo effort has injected confidence into the entire Villa workforce, most notably Rashford who’s starting to appear to be his outdated self,” quips Colum Fordham. “McGinnspiration! Who is aware of what would possibly occur from right here however there’s magic within the air at Villa Park.”
67 min: McGinn, his work right here performed, is changed by Marco Asensio, a headline within the making given he’s on mortgage from PSG. Onana in the meantime makes means for Jacob Ramsey.
65 min: Villa Park is in Bedlam Mode, by the best way. Such as you want telling that. However yet one more PSG aim would certainly burst the bubble, and Dembele tries to supply it by lashing a low drive goalwards from a good angle on the precise. Martinez will get right down to deal with convincingly.
63 min: Rashford hassles Vitinha in the course of the park. The dynamic all of the sudden so totally different. Vitinha was the boss of the primary half, with Rashford invisible. However now look! What an help Rashford supplied for Konsa’s aim, and now he’s actually up for this.
62 min: PSG, their heads swimming, reply by changing Barcola with Doué.
60 min: The nook’s pulled again. Tielemans shoots, a bouncing bomb into the field. Torres heads over. Very related vibes to the early second-half one-two Liverpool carried out on Barcelona of their 2019 semi-final 4-0 comeback. Related timings to Georginio Wijnaldum’s double-whammy that night as properly.
59 min: That is absurd. Borderline psychedelic. Tielemans guides a looping header in direction of the highest left. Donnarumma claws it out. It was heading in. McGinn tries to drive the rebound dwelling from a good angle. It’s deflected out for a nook.
GOAL! Aston Villa 3-2 PSG (Konsa 58); agg 4-5
Rashford jinks in from the precise. He reaches the byline, by the nook of the six-yard field, and pulls again for Konsa, dashing in. Konsa opens his physique and slots into the underside proper! It’s on! It truly is on!
57 min: Rashford, who has performed little or no up to now this night, drifts in from the left and launches a rising shot in direction of the top-right nook. Donnarumma extends and suggestions across the nook. And from that …
GOAL! Aston Villa 2-2 PSG (McGinn 55); agg 3-5
McGinn is allowed to run down the inside-left channel. And run. And run. He takes a whack at aim from 30 yards. A pearler rises and dips into the top-right nook, Donnarumma wrong-footed for the second time this night. A slight nick, you see. They couldn’t, may they?!
53 min: Tielemans bustles into the PSG field however loses management. Neither Marquinhos nor Hakimi know the place the ball is. It falls to Rashford, who can’t drive previous the spreading Donnarumma. PSG go up the pitch, and Dembele is shipped clear from the midway line. He’s clearly offside, the one outfield participant within the Villa half, however is allowed to run all the best way earlier than delicately dinking over Martinez. Pretty end, but it surely’s clearly going to be dominated out. And it’s.
51 min: A little bit of area for Money down the precise. He’s acquired a few buddies within the center, however hesitates to cross, defenders swarm, and the chance goes by.
49 min: Digne crosses from the left. McGinn flicks a header over the bar. Properly off-target.
48 min: Aside from that, a reasonably quiet begin to the half, even when Villa are buzzing round within the hope of forcing an early mistake.
46 min: McGinn chases after an extended ball down the center. Marquinhos stands his floor. The defender catches McGinn within the face with an unintended arm. McGinn goes down. He’s not completely happy. He claims to have been intentionally elbowed. The referee’s having none of it, however McGinn has been on a rolling boil ever since that tangle with Hakimi. Tony Hughes, of half-time postbag fame, could possibly be onto one thing.
PSG get the second half began. No adjustments.
Half-time postbag. “A few years in the past Jonathan Wilson made the purpose that within the post-sweeper period, the nationwide facet with the most effective fullbacks usually gained the the World Cup. I do know that this was some extent in regards to the worldwide sport, however no membership has a greater pair of fullbacks than Nuno Mendes and Achraf Hakimi, which bodes properly for PSG” – Kári Tulinius
“Not precisely Nostradamus-level, however I reckon the second half has not less than a pink card in it someplace” – Tony Hughes
“Despite the fact that it’s nonetheless a tall process, I used to be thrilled to see Villa get on again. Then they confirmed Prince William celebrating. Come on PSG, put in one other 5!” – Rob Coughlin
HALF TIME: Aston Villa 1-2 Paris Saint-Germain (agg 2-5)
PSG’s flying full-backs look to have performed for Aston Villa’s hopes of reaching the semis. Youri Tielemans has restored not less than a smidgen of hope.
45 min: Dembele goes racing clear down the left. One go. That is too easy. He enters the field however flays a wild shot over the bar. Then the flag goes up for offside. Had he scored, I feel VAR would have gotten concerned, Konsa taking part in him on.
44 min: Hakimi lotions an extended free kick down the center. Dembele is free! Thankfully for Villa, Konsa battles again and will get within the highway, Dembele slips, and the flag lastly goes up for offside.
42 min: McGinn thinks he’s going right into a 50-50 with Kvaratskhelia. In actuality it’s extra like a 20-80. The Villa captain is means late, clatters his man, and goes into the guide. A excessive risk he’s not but calmed down from the tangle with Hakimi.
41 min: Tielemans pops a go down the inside-right channel for Torres, who from the nook of the six-yard field opts to cross fairly than shoot. Unsuitable resolution.
40 min: Vitinha, Dembele and Nuno Mendes almost open Villa up once more down the left. Then Fabián Ruiz one-twos with Kvaratskhelia within the center however the ensuing shot is weak and straight at Martinez. PSG seemingly not that involved by the Villa aim.
38 min: Seems Tielemans has been credited with the Villa aim. Everybody concerned will probably be proud of that call.
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