Matt Maher gives his take on Aston Villa's Champions League defeat at PSG

Matt Maher gives his take on Aston Villa's Champions League defeat to PSG.

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00:00Good evening from Paris, or should I say good morning, it's 20 past midnight over here.

00:06Villa beaten 3-1 by Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg of their Champions League quarter-final

00:11on a night when the 27th shot might have been the killer in terms of this tie.

00:16Villa heading into stoppage time, 2-1 down, still very much in the tie,

00:20looked like they were going back to Villa Park, still very much in it.

00:23And then Nuno Mendes scores, one of the last attacks of the game to make it 3-1

00:29and it really does feel now that Villa have got a mountain to climb

00:31and it's going to need something extraordinary next week to overhaul this deficit.

00:37Oonemery disagrees, he's come into his post-match press conference and said

00:41well it's changed nothing, Oonemery basically said he expected to lose either 2-1 or 3-1

00:47and he's confident that Villa can pull it back at home

00:50but they're going to have to produce something really special

00:53against what is an excellent Paris Saint-Germain side.

00:55We knew they were good, obviously saw them beat Liverpool in the previous round

01:00and they were excellent tonight, they dominated the game

01:03yet it was Villa who went in front, Morgan Rodgers scoring on the 35th minute

01:09finishing a fine team move.

01:12That was a rare attack from Villa and just a couple of minutes, well four minutes later

01:17Desiree Due scores a sensational goal for PSG

01:21who then went ahead early in the second half through the Georgian genius

01:26as my colleague Graham Bryce calls him

01:29a name I cannot actually pronounce properly

01:32so let's call him the Georgian genius

01:34trademark Graham Bryce, put Paris Saint-Germain 2-1 up

01:37and you feared then, you feared Villa were going to get overrun

01:40that didn't really happen, they were holding out quite well

01:42which made the goal from Nunez, Nuno Mendes in stoppage time

01:45even more galling

01:48again, you know, a frustrating finish

01:52finish to the game

01:53Villa were going up against it anyway

01:55but now you really do feel that it's going to take something

01:57something truly special next week

01:59to turn this tie around

02:01Thank you