PSG vs Aston Villa: Preview, team news, prediction for Champions League match

The first legs of the Champions League quarter-finals continue Wednesday with Paris Saint-Germain facing Aston Villa.

PSG are once again Ligue 1 champions, boasting a 22-point margin atop the table with six matches remaining. With the domestic title wrapped up, the Parisians are free to put their full focus on succeeding in the Champions League.

They face an Aston Villa side who are chasing a European berth for next season. Villa sit seventh in the Premier League standings and have gone seven matches unbeaten across all competitions, but this tie may be their biggest challenge of the season so far.

Here's what to know about PSG and Aston Villa before their second leg match.

PSG vs Aston Villa: Head-to-head and recent statistics

• All-time meetings: 0
• PSG wins: 0
• Draws: 0
• Aston Villa wins: 0

This will be the first-ever meeting between these sides.

PSG vs Aston Villa: Team news

PSG

• Injured:  Lee (ankle, doubt)
• Suspended:  Marquinhos (yellow accumulation)

Aston Villa

• Injured:  Bailey (knock, doubt), Barkley (calf, doubt)
• Suspended:  None
• Ineligible:  Malen (not registered), A. Garcia (not registered)

PSG vs Aston Villa: What the managers are saying

Luis Enrique, PSG

(via PSG)

"Aston Villa's team is similar to ours: a lot of versatile players, so it's difficult to know who's going to play. A team that can play with a low block, a high block, and drop back. In all these respects, we're very similar, so it promises to be an open and complicated game for both teams. They're capable of playing out from the back, managing space, that's their strength: attacking from the back to the front. We're going to have to be very good defensively and very efficient."

Unai Emery, Aston Villa

(via Aston Villa)

“They are very good in the press with the players they have. They are keeping ball possession and being so, so aggressive and intense in each action they are doing in all of the field."

PSG vs Aston Villa predicition

Villa will pose a tough challenge, but PSG should have the edge at home.

Prediction: PSG 2-1 Aston Villa

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