Paris Saint-Germain survived a remarkable comeback attempt by Aston Villa to reach the semi-final of the Champions League, by going to the last four despite losing a pulsating quarter-final second stage 3-2 in Villa Park.
With 3-1 of the first stage in the Parc des Princes, PSG seemed to have a semi-final place halfway through the first half thanks to goals of Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes.
But Villa produced, after retrieving your Tielemans, an exciting second half Display, John McGinn and Ezri Konsa each score within the room of three minutes to put the men of Unai Emery on the eve of a wonderful revival.
Despite the constant testing of the excellent Gianluigi Donnarumma, Villa could not find the fourth goal they needed for extra time. They stem from an absorbent tie with enormous credit, while PSG is confronted with Arsenal or Real Madrid.
Aston Villa against Paris Saint-Germain
PSG only needed 11 minutes to make Villa the task even more difficult, the visitors who got a helping hand from Villa goalkeeper Emi Martinez, who misjudged the left-wing cross of Bradley Barcola at the end of a quick counterattack that has the right in the path of the Hakimi Verheeling to go to home.
Villa threatened a reaction, Morgan Rogers curls closely wide, but the draw seemed to be anything but over in the 27th minute after another escape goal from PSG, Nuno Mendes that this time struck it with an excellent first touch followed by a sublime bending effort in the post after excellent work by Ousmane Dembele.
Nevertheless, seven minutes later the hosts were given hope from the Blue, Villa received a bit of luck when Tielemans’ efforts were a major deflection from Willian Pacho to go wrong a helpless Donnarumma.
There was an element of Fortuin over Villa’s route back in the draw in the second half, although it was nothing more than they deserved.
Villa was much improved in the resumption of the game and after Marcus Rashford Donnarumma forced in a nice housing up close, McGinn left the goalkeeper of Italy once in the 55th minute with a long -distance attack that stayed off the babeless pacho and ran in the top corner.
Donnarumma continued his personal struggle with Rashford when he turned the fierce strike of the England attacker. The resulting corner, however, saw the man on loan from Manchester United producing a piece of sparkle, while Rashford burst the box past two PSG players in burst and pulled the ball back for Konsa to send Villa Park with a composed finish.
Bewildered and on the ropes, PSG was again grateful for Donnarumma after he had tipped a header in Tielemans, and he frustrated Villa again to prevent Marco Asensio from leveling the draw.
Asensio, on loan from PSG, looked destined to mark his replacement appearance with a goal when he erupted one on one, just to see his final shot cannon of the large frame of Donnarumma.
PSG then recovered a certain degree of calmness and Martinez transfers both Dembele and replacement wishes while they tried to finally put the draw in bed.
Yet they still needed one last ditch to prevent it extra half an hour, this time Pacho got a crucial touch to keep the ball out while his block Ian measures to keep Villa level in the draw deep in the stop time.
