Paris Saint-Germain has survived a remarkable attempt to return from Aston Villa to reach the semi-finals of the Champions League, going to the last four despite a second floor of 3-2 pulsating final at Villa.
Led 3-1 from the first stage of the Parc des Princes, PSG seemed to have a place in the semi-finals sewn halfway from the first half thanks to the goals of Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes.
But villa, after shooting one through your Tielemans, produced a touching second half-time screen, John McGinn and Ezri Konsa each marking in the space of three minutes to put the men of Unai Emery on the point of a miraculous renewal.
Despite the continuous tests of the Gianluigi Donnarumma exceptional, Villa could not find the fourth goal they needed for more time. They emerge from an absorbing tie with huge credit, while PSG continues to face Arsenal or Real Madrid.
Aston Villa against Paris Saint-Germain
PSG only needed 11 minutes to make the task of a villa even more difficult, visitors receiving a helping goal from the Villa goalkeeper, Emi Martinez, who badly judged the left cross of Bradley Barcola at the end of a quick counterattack, transforming it directly into the Hakimi path, to sweep the house.
Villa has threatened an answer, Morgan Rogers curling closely, but the tie seemed to be practically finished in the 27th minute after another goal of escaping PSG, Nuno Mendes this time causing it with a superb first touch followed by a sublime flexion effort in the post after an excellent work by passing to the right of the Ousmane Dembele.
However, the hosts received the hope of the blue seven minutes later, a stroke of luck while the effort of Tielemans made a strong deviation from Willian Pacho to leave a defenseless Donnarumma.
There was an element of fortune on the road to the villa in equality in the second half, although it was nothing more than they deserved.
Villa was very improved on the resumption of the game and, after Marcus Rashford forced Donnarumma at an end to the range, McGinn left the Italian goalkeeper struck once again in the 55th minute with a long -range strike which deviated the unfortunate Pacho and had buckling in the upper corner.
Donnarumma continued his personal battle with Rashford when he returned the fierce strike from England. However, the resulting corner saw the man loan from Manchester United producing a piece of shine, while Rashford burst into the box after the two PSG players and removed the ball so that Konsa sends Villa Park in the ravages with a composed finish.
Authorized and on the ropes, PSG was again grateful to Donnarumma after having made a head of Tielemans, and it frustrated again to prevent Marco Asensio from leveling the tie.
Asensio, loaned by PSG, seemed to be intended to mark its substitute by an objective when it broke out in head, only to see its possible shot cannon on the frame of Donnarumma de Donnarumma.
PSG found a certain degree of composure thereafter and Martinez thwarted both Dembele and substitute for Doue while they finally tried to put the tie in bed.
However, they still needed to defend themselves the last millet to avoid the additional half hour, Pacho this time by obtaining a crucial touch to keep the ball outside while its block prevented Ian Maathsen from stealing the level of the villa in the link deeply at the time of arrest.
