It was the time for the reunion for Unai Emery. More than 5 years after his visit to the capital's club, the Spanish coach was back at the Parc des Princes, this time as Adversary of PSG. With his Aston Villa, Emery hoped to create a surprise and bring down a Parisian team in very great shape and which was clearly wary of the Villans. Several players who have closely rubbed shoulders with the former Seville coach had alerted in recent days. “He is a coach passionate about football. We know how he makes his team work to be ready for a match like that. He looks at the maximum of details, it will be played on these details ”explained in this sense Marquinhos after the match against Angers.
This Wednesday evening, we can say that PSG took this meeting with an still successful performance seriously. And if it was the villans that opened the scoring against the course of the game (Unai Emery did not celebrate the goal of his family), Paris logically ended up overthrowing the meeting after impressive domination. Conversely, Aston Villa will have made a copy not very exciting despite an attractive workforce on paper. If the game plan was respected to the letter, namely defending very low and not to be discovered, Aston Villa has been able to show something offensively and finally conceded several large opportunities (saved by Martinez).
Unai Emery believes that his team has competed with PSG
However, after the meeting, Unai Emery made a fairly surprising speech at a press conference, believing that his team had displayed a very nice face. I am proud of my players. We gave the PSG of the hardwood and we were close to obtaining a very good result. In the end, the third goal we conceded does not change much, because we expected to have to win the return match. (…) In the end, I am not happy with the result, but I am satisfied with the performance of the team and the overall process in which we are engaged. Tonight, my team did not offer the best version of itself, but we will try to do better on the return, with the support of our supporterssaid the coach, while his team had only 24% possession, conceded 29 shots and only succeeded in 200 passes (against 796 for PSG).
However, the Spanish tactician believes that his team can clearly reverse the match even if he can only salute the current level of PSG. “We tried to develop offensive animations, but it was complicated. The Parisians were favorites before this match, they had a lot of possession, with intense players in the middle and we tried to do our best. In the second period, we still had a few opportunities to score when we were led 1-2. We will try to create something special at Villa Park. I am confident in our ability to perform next week at a higher level. In the return match, we will have to manage the precision of our individual and collective decisions in a better way than we have done today. But I retain positive: today we knew how to challenge this Paris team. ” A vision can be too optimistic on the part of Unai Emery who could experience another complicated evening in a few days during the return match.
