Updates from 8pm BST kick-off at Estadi OlímpicEmail Simon here | Follow PSG v Aston Villa live This is a strong look from Raphinha. Serious yeah-and-what-you-gonna-do-about-it vibes. Team news has landed, and tonight’s line-ups look like this: Continue reading...

Kick-off at Parc des Princes is 8pm (BST)Follow Barcelona v Dortmund live Six years ago tomorrow, ten-man Aston Villa came from behind to win 2-1 at Rotherham and move up to fifth in the Championship. Jack Grealish scored the winner, Tyrone Mings was sent off and, in the words of the Villa manager Dean Smith, “John McGinn was so good I thought there were two of him”. In the same week, Thomas Tuchel’s Paris Saint-Germain moved 20 points clear at the top of Ligue 1, with a game in hand. Mings, McGinn and millions of Villa fans have had a helluva ride since then, particularly since Unai Emery came to the club in 2022, and tonight they will play PSG in the last eight of Europe’s greatest competition. Continue reading...

Aston Villa can confirm ticket details for our trip to Tottenham Hotspur in the Women's Super League

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Aston Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez was pictured wearing a World Cup triumph cap to seemingly rile up PSG fans ahead of their Champions League quarter-final clash.

Aston Villa take on PSG in quarter-finals

The reigning champions were undone by Michel Platini, Zbigniew Boniek and Paolo Rossi in March 1983 By That 1980s Sports Blog Sometimes you have to hold up your hands and recognise that your defeat was more down to the skills of your opponent than your own failings. Take Aston Villa’s loss to Juventus in the quarter-finals of the European Cup in 1983. Thousands of fans left Villa Park after the first leg knowing their team’s grip on the European Cup had loosened. Villa were beaten 2-1 at home in the first leg and 3-1 away in Turin a fortnight later, but there was no disgrace in losing to that Juventus team. When the draw for the last eight was made in December 1982, Villa were given one of the hardest possible tests Europe could provide. Liverpool, drawn against Polish team Widzew Lodz, were installed as 13-8 favourites to win the trophy, with Juventus priced at 11-4. Villa’s odds of 13-2 highlighted the task before them. Continue reading...

Paris St-Germain manager Luis Enrique is "delighted" Marco Asensio can play for Aston Villa in the Champions League quarter-finals - but could he haunt his parent club?

Unai Emery is Aston Villa's "X-factor" as he seeks redemption for his lowest Champions League moment on return to PSG, writes Phil McNulty.

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Luis Enrique's revolution at PSG has been a swift one. Once a piecemeal array of superstars, the Parisians are arguably the best team in Europe.

Aston Villa manager Unai Emery says goalkeeper Emiliano Martinez is "mature" after the goalkeeper's latest hat prank in Paris.

Aston Villa loanee faces unusual but not unprecedented challenge in the Champions League quarter-final first leg Presumably some time between making another play for Marco Asensio and the Paris Saint-Germain forward pitching up on loan in February, Unai Emery, or at least Aston Villa’s administrative staff, sifted through the small print of Uefa’s regulations in case this very scenario presented itself. Less than three months after replacing Kvara Kvaratskhelia at Parc des Princes in a Ligue 1 draw against Reims, Asensio faces the unusual but not unprecedented challenge of trying to knock his parent club out of the Champions League, the competition PSG crave so badly. Villa were on the other end of this peculiarity in October, though the stakes were nowhere near as high. When Bologna came to Birmingham, they arrived with a Villa player in their ranks. With Villa leading 2-0, coasting towards a victory that maintained their 100% start to the league phase, Samuel Iling-Junior entered late on to gentle applause from all sides. It was the 21-year-old’s first appearance at Villa Park – albeit for the visitors – and it could prove his last given Iling-Junior, who signed from Juventus last summer as part of the package that saw Douglas Luiz depart, joined Middlesbrough on loan in February. Continue reading...

Aston Villa's Youri Tielemans has urged Paris Saint-Germain supporters to "stick to football" if they taunt goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez.