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[✅️FT] Aston Villa 3-2 Paris Saint-Germain (lemm.ee)

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Goals

Aston Villa: Youri Tielemans (34'), John McGinn (55'), Ezri Konsa (57')

Paris Saint-Germain: Achraf Hakimi (11'), Nuno Mendes (27')

Competition: UEFA Champions League

Kickoff: 19:00+UTC

Venue: Villa Park - Birmingham England

Head referee: José María Sánchez Martínez

Aston Villa form [old → recent]: ✅️✅️✅️❌️✅️

Paris Saint-Germain form [old → recent]: ✅️✅️✅️✅️✅️

Head to head [recent → old]: (AVL-PSG): 1-3

Lineups

Aston Villa 4-2-3-1:

Emiliano Martínez(23) - Pau Torres(14) - Ezri Konsa(4)⚽️ - ~~Lucas Digne(12)~~ ⇆ Ian Maatsen(22) - Matty Cash(2) - ~~Youri Tielemans(8)⚽️~~ ⇆ Ross Barkley(6) - ~~Amadou Onana(24)~~ ⇆ Jacob Ramsey(41) - Boubacar Kamara(44) - ~~Marcus Rashford(9)~~ ⇆ Ollie Watkins(11) - ~~John McGinn(7)🟨⚽️~~ ⇆ Marco Asensio(21) - Morgan Rogers(27)

Bench: Axel Disasi - Lamare Bogarde - Leon Bailey - Tyrone Mings - Robin Olsen - Sam Proctor - ~~Ian Maatsen~~ - ~~Marco Asensio~~ - ~~Jacob Ramsey~~ - ~~Ollie Watkins~~ - ~~Ross Barkley~~

Paris Saint-Germain 4-3-3:

Gianluigi Donnarumma(1) - Willian Pacho(51) - Marquinhos (5) - Nuno Mendes(25)⚽️ - Achraf Hakimi(2)⚽️ - Vitinha (17) - Fabián Ruiz(8) - João Neves(87) - Ousmane Dembélé(10) - ~~Bradley Barcola(29)~~ ⇆ Désiré Doué(14) - Khvicha Kvaratskhelia(7)

Bench: Senny Mayulu - Arnau Tenas - Gonçalo Ramos - Presnel Kimpembe - Lee Kang-in - Ibrahim Mbaye - Warren Zaïre-Emery - Lucas Beraldo - Matvei Safonov - Lucas Hernández - ~~Désiré Doué~~

Match Stats

Possession: 34%🟩🟩🟩🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴66%

Shots On Goal: 8 - 7

Shots Attempted: 17 - 14

Fouls: 15 - 3

Yellow Cards: 1 - 0

Red Cards: 0 - 0

Corners: 5 - 5

Saves: 5 - 5

Match Events

Lineups are announced and players are warming up.

First Half begins.

2' - Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

2' - Attempt blocked. Youri Tielemans (Aston Villa) header from a difficult angle on the left is blocked. Assisted by Marcus Rashford with a cross.

2' - Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by João Neves.

4' - Foul by John McGinn (Aston Villa).

4' - Willian Pacho (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

4' - Foul by Lucas Digne (Aston Villa).

4' - Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

11' - ⚽️ Goal! Aston Villa 0, Paris Saint Germain 1. Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the top left corner following a fast break.

15' - Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Bradley Barcola is caught offside.

18' - Attempt blocked. Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa) left footed shot from outside the box is blocked. Assisted by Matty Cash.

18' - Corner, Aston Villa. Conceded by Willian Pacho.

19' - Attempt saved. Pau Torres (Aston Villa) left footed shot from a difficult angle on the left is saved in the centre of the goal.

20' - Offside, Aston Villa. Marcus Rashford is caught offside.

23' - Boubacar Kamara (Aston Villa) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

23' - Foul by Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint Germain).

24' - Attempt missed. Morgan Rogers (Aston Villa) left footed shot from the right side of the box is close, but misses to the left. Assisted by Youri Tielemans.

27' - ⚽️ Goal! Aston Villa 0, Paris Saint Germain 2. Nuno Mendes (Paris Saint Germain) left footed shot from the centre of the box to the bottom left corner. Assisted by Ousmane Dembélé following a fast break.

32' - Offside, Aston Villa. Morgan Rogers is caught offside.

34' - ⚽️ Goal! Aston Villa 1, Paris Saint Germain 2. Youri Tielemans (Aston Villa) right footed shot from the left side of the box to the top left corner. Assisted by John McGinn following a fast break.

36' - Achraf Hakimi (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

36' - Foul by John McGinn (Aston Villa).

40' - Attempt saved. Fabián Ruiz (Paris Saint Germain) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the centre of the goal. Assisted by Khvicha Kvaratskhelia.

42' - Foul by John McGinn (Aston Villa).

42' - Khvicha Kvaratskhelia (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

42' - 🟨 John McGinn (Aston Villa) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.

43' - Bradley Barcola (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

43' - Foul by Youri Tielemans (Aston Villa).

44' - Foul by Youri Tielemans (Aston Villa).

44' - João Neves (Paris Saint Germain) wins a free kick in the defensive half.

44' - Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Ousmane Dembélé is caught offside.

45' - Offside, Paris Saint Germain. Ousmane Dembélé is caught offside.

45'+1' - Fourth official has announced 1 minutes of added time.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The PSG collapse after half time highlights that they are still miles from the complete package and far from the best team in Europe.

As much as I am a villa fan, to get battered like that in the second half and have to rely on luck to not get pushed to extra time by villa not an established champions league winner shows they still have plenty of work to do.

They are very beatable on the counter, I can't see them beating barca.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

they are still miles from the complete package and far from the best team in Europe.

It is not like the best team always wins the UCL. There 3 instances since La decima (La Decima year included) where Real Madrid has won the UCL without even being the best team in Spain. Even Bayern during the treble year in 2012-13, the year when they trashed Barcelona 7-0 on aggregate and also beat juventus 4-0 on aggregate, barely scrapped past Arsenal on the away goals rule.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Stylistic mismatches happen, luck happens, key players being out happens, all contributes to one or two out of form results, but PSG were frankly a bit shit at the start of the tournament losing three matches and finishing 15th. I still think haven't fixed their fundamental issues about controlling and killing a match off, which with all the ridiculous hype of "Best Team" since beating a stunted Liverpool on penalties is symptomatic of football journalism. Its not like PSG play in a properly competitive league, at least the Spanish and Italian Leagues make a decent attempts at the race most seasons.

Its similar to the almost complete write off of Real and how wonderful Arsenal are now, having magicked a free kick specialist out of Rice. It wasn't that long ago their bottling in the Premier League was resulting in Arteta being talked up for the sack, yet one good result against a big name team and its all sunshine and roses. While its unlikely that Real will come back and win, they are still a very good side, and I am sure nobody thought Villa or Dortmund would rally and make a decent attempt of being behind by a big margin. Real are a better team than both of them, even as poor as they can be this season and to completely write them off is super foolish. If Arteta manages to lose over the two legs is he now a terrible manager again and should be sacked immediately?

Winning two legged cup ties are a very different beast to winning your native league, especially at the sharp end of something like the Champions League. Being used to the pressure, the different tactics is an important skill. Plus having players that can step it up for those matches rather than just grind out results against weak opposition week in week out in your home league, is very important. Not going in a complete flap as the PSG defense did for a mad 15 minutes second half is equally important skill and pretty essential if you want the best team label to actually mean something.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

The fact is the 'best team' or at least a team in contention to be the best does not need be great team - they just have to be better than the other teams.

Both PSG and Barcelona are not perfect and have some serious issues with their defences. Madrid and bayern are also struggling at the back because injuries have meant they aren't able to control games. Arsenal have been pretty poor going forward. Inter is probably the most balanced side and are underrated because they aren't exceptional at any one facet of their play.

While you make some good arguments as to why PSG cannot be considered as one of the best teams, considering current form, only PSG, Barca and Inter are candidates for that accolade and you will journalists make arguments for each of them

[–] [email protected] 1 points 17 hours ago

There is a fundamental difference from "best team" on the night and "THE Best Team". One is dependent on form, easier schedule (something PSG benefited from here), and player availability (injuries and suspension), the other is an actual measure of what the squad is capable of across an entire season on multiple fronts and how they can step up, change up, as needed for the big games.

I think discounting teams that are having a minor crisis at a critical point in the season but giving a team who have no actual depth out of a preferred dozen players seems a bit naive. Its similar to giving Arsenal a free pass for their perennial lack of a quality striker, for a team with that budget over that number of years with the same problem its entirely self inflicted. Losing most of your entire back line at the same time is not remotely the same thing unless its all to the same injury that points to problems with how the squad is being asked to train and play (looking at Spurs here, but this is something that you could also level at Arsenal).

PSG simply lack options to change up play, that alone removes them from the equation for me. The fact that Enrique did not even trust more than two players to sub on across the two legs even if nothing more than to run down the clock shows a shocking lack of trust in his options. The fact that they freely admit to being only able to play one style, that can be bypassed with simple route one football and offer nothing tactically or from the subs bench to counter this, shows complete stubbornness that removes any luster that PSG does have when firing on all cylinders. One or two season ending injuries to key players for PSG would ruin their squad.

I do agree Inter are the best balanced squad left, Arsenal have a mix of bad luck and terrible choices impacting their balance, Barca have injury problems and are still growing from their rebuild, and PSG simply do not have enough depth in style or defensive quality when under sustained pressure.

But THE Best Team should be looking further than just the four left in the competition, we narrowly didn't beat PSG on aggregate, if we had, would we be better than them and thus THE Best Team? Obviously not, likewise are PSG THE Best Team because they beat Liverpool and a poor Man City? I really do not think so, yet that is what is pushed.