Aston Villa ‘motivated and excited for Paris St Germain Clash – Unai Emery

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery He says that his team will travel to Paris for their first leg of the Champions League quarter -finals with confidence after collecting a seventh victory below.

Villa hit Nottingham Forest 2-1 to increase their possibility of returning to Europe’s largest phase next season thanks to the goals of Morgan Rogers and Donging Donyell Malen in the 15 minutes of opening.

They have a real momentum as they put their eyes on a second consecutive year of qualifying in the Champions League.

They could still win by winning this year’s competition and now go to face Paris st Germain For the biggest game of the club from their loss of the quarter -finals of the European Cup against Juventus in 1982.

“We are motivated. We are enthusiastic,” said the former PSG Emery boss before a return to the Parc Des Princes.

“They are the favorites but we will try to play those two games, preparing the best possible, in competition, analyzing how we have to adapt to them, how we can impose and tactically dominate our structure.

“We are very motivated to prepare those games.

“It is a different game from today, we will analyze and identify how we can face Paris St Germain. We will prepare two legs.

“Everything we are doing, we are analyzing and trying to improve. There are many positive things and many things that I want to check that we can do better.”

The forest has aspirations to be in the Champions League of the next season, although they were injured by a defeat that could have been at least one draw.

Jota Silva returned them in the second half, but they lost a series of opportunities to level in the absence of wounded attackers Chris Wood and Taiwo Awoniyi.

When asked if the result would have been different if one of those players had been in shape, the boss Nuno Espirito Santo said: “We never know. What we tried was to try to find solutions.

“But for me, football is the attackers, you know what I mean. So we miss Chris and you miss ‘T’, because the way we play, the way we do things, we need a reference player.

“It is very tough on Anthony (Elanga) and Callum (Hudson-Aodoi) and Jota (Silva) and (Roman) Sosa to do the same. It is not the same.

“This was probably one of the games that we created the most possibilities. Disappointed. Disappointed, not only the possibilities we have created and that we have not reached.

“I thought about the way we started the game first, not so good, much better in the second half. But the feeling is of disappointment.”