Paris Saint Germain vs Aston Villa

PSG have now beaten Manchester City, Liverpool and Aston Villa this season, the fourth time a team has beaten three Premier League sides in the same UEFA Champions League campaign after Bayern Munich in 2013-14, Barcelona in 2018-19 and Real Madrid in 2021-22.

Aston Villa remain winless away against French opposition in all competitions (D2 L4), with three of those four defeats coming across the last two seasons under Unai Emery.

PSG had a passing accuracy of 94.5% in this match – it’s their highest on record in a single UEFA Champions League game, the fifth highest overall and the second highest in a knockout stage game (all since 2003-04).

Paris SG and Aston Villa will meet for the first time in European competition, with this just the second UEFA Champions League quarter-final between French and English sides in the last eight campaigns (Manchester City 1-3 Lyon in the only leg in 2019-20).

Paris SG eliminated Liverpool in the last 16 of this season’s UEFA Champions League, after having exited the competition in each of their last three knockout stage meetings with English sides (v Man City in 2015-16 and 2020-21, and Man Utd in 2018-19).

Aston Villa have never won away to a French opponent in European competition (P5 D2 L3); their most away to teams from one nation without winning. The last two have both been defeats under Unai Emery, losing at Lille in April 2024 (1-2) and at Monaco in January this year (0-1).

Aston Villa will be the fourth different English team that Paris SG have faced in the UEFA Champions League this season (also Arsenal, Manchester City, Liverpool). This is the joint-most opponents from one nation that a team have played against in a single European Cup/Champions League campaign, along with Leeds United in 2000-01 (four Spanish sides) and Real Madrid in 2023-24 (four German sides).

Aston Villa boss Unai Emery has won just two of his 10 games against Luis Enrique as a manager (D1 L7), with both wins coming in home fixtures. Indeed, this will be the first time they’ve faced each other since the 2016-17 campaign, when Luis Enrique’s Barcelona came from 0-4 down in the first leg to eliminate Emery’s Paris SG side in the UEFA Champions League last 16 (6-1 win in the second leg).