Aston Villa suffered a 3-1 loss to Paris Saint-Germain despite taking the lead via Morgan Rogers’ goal at Parc des Princes.
Désiré Doué scored the equaliser for PSG in the 39th minute before Khvicha Kvaratskhelia gave the home side the lead at the start of the second half. Nuno Mendes’ late goal gives PSG a two-goal lead going into the second leg next week.
Aston Villa have a tough task to overcome PSG in the return leg at Villa Park. After the defeat in Paris, Canal+ had a chat with Villans defender Lucas Digne and L’Equipe have relayed his comments.
The 31-year-old is of the belief Aston Villa can still make it to the last four of the Champions League and explains what the English club have to do to achieve it.
“It’s up to us to do the work in the return leg. We’ll obviously have to rediscover ourselves a little more, but it’s still possible and we’ll do everything we can to achieve it,” he said.
PSG dominated against the Premier League club on Wednesday with more shots and more possession. The Paris club had 76% possession and 26 shots, of which 10 were on target. Aston Villa, on the other hand, had two of their seven shots on target.
The France international insists it was Unai Emery’s game plan to be defensive yesterday.
“It was our game plan [to defend deep], and we managed to open the scoring at the start, which was the hardest thing to do,” Digne explained.
“We’re playing against a great team, you have to admit, like Désiré’s shot, it’s incredible.”
