Former Aston Villa star Andy Townsend believes Villa can overcome Paris Saint Germain ahead of tonight’s Champions League second leg quarter-finals clash.
Despite losing 3-1 in the first leg in Paris last week, Townsend in a chat with talkSPORT, stated that Aston Villa can re-write history by overturning the two-goal deficit and qualify for the semi-finals.
“It’s incredibly difficult because I think PSG, without doubt, are the best team I’ve witnessed in the competition, but it can be done.
“This competition throws up more incredible comebacks at this stage than probably any other on the planet.
“Villa, of course, have got to score first. But they don’t have to do it in the first five or 10 minutes. It doesn’t matter if it’s 0-0 at half-time.
“Liverpool in Istanbul scored three in less than ten minutes, I remember being in the Bernabeu when City were 5-3 up going into the 90th minute and got beat.
“If Villa score in the 65th minute to go 1-0 up tonight and keep their foot to the floor and just rattle them, the point I’m making is we’ve seen clutches of goals come along very quickly.
“Even the best teams go under a little bit, we saw Real Madrid go under a bit against Arsenal last week. Villa have got to believe they can do something like that.”
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