The pre-match buildup is more of a rock concert than a football match, with flames and fireworks lit up the villa park and flying from the roof of the stands towering up each side of the stadium.
The trademark harsh expression of the legendary former villa manager Ron Sanders looked down from a huge screen before kickoff as one of the most famous quotes in the club’s history revived and echoed around the stadium.
“Want to bet on us?” is a message pinned to Villa Folklore, delivering Sanders when stumbled and questioned before winning the league title in 1981.
Everyone in the villa park would have been betting on them as Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes raised their PSG to 2-0 within the first 30 minutes.
“Start the car,” said a disappointed villa fan. I hope he did not follow his own advice. Otherwise he would have missed the thriller that left the stadium knee depth in the nail bitten by the final mouth whis.
Instead of calming down, Villa rattled the PSG in a way that went far beyond Manchester City and Liverpool on previous Championsley grounds this season.
Your Tillémans got one back, but it was a real game when John McGinn and Ezri Consa hit twice in the second half three minutes.
Although PSG’s inexperience has been exposed, the brilliant keeper Gianluigi Donnarumma is brilliantly saved by Marcus Rashford, Tielemans and Marco Asensio to repel Villa’s attacks.
With a deafening wall of sound, PSG becomes horrifying, and Emery actually throws herself on the floor with a mix of despair and mistrust.
The big comeback was beyond the villa, but it was glorious in disappointment.
