Aston Villa vs PSG LIVE: Latest updates as hosts hit again after nightmare begin to Champions League quarter-final

Aston Villa go into half-time with a mountain to climb, but with a slither of hope nonetheless.

An already difficult task was made so much harder when PSG bagged the first two goals of the second leg, with full-back pair Achraf Hakimi and Nuno Mendes giving the visitors a four-goal advantage in the tie.

However, Youri Tielemans proved Villa with something to cling on to as he got one back through a deflected strike.

45 mins: Another opening for Dembele as he drives into the area from wide left.

He blazes his shot over before, once again, the flag goes up. That said, replays showed the call to be very tight. Might have stood if it went in.

44 mins: Hakimi launches a free-kick from his own half into the path of Dembele, trying to get the Frenchman in behind.

He brings it down but can’t get full control of it, eventually falling over. Flag then goes up.

40 mins: PSG come forward with bodies but can only fire a tame effort goalwards, straight down the throat of Martinez.

Up the other end, Konsa gets in a good position in the box but opts not to shoot, instead dinking a cross to the back post that meets no-one.

37 mins: Villa Park is back believing. That Tielemans goal has provided the home fans with a much-needed boost, and the hosts are trying to make this momentum count.

McGinn tries to pounce on a loose header but Hakimi gets goal-side before both tumble to the floor. McGinn is claiming penalty, but it’s a foul in PSG’s favour.

It might have not been a spot-kick, but Hakimi was very lucky that his kick-out didn’t connect once the pair bundled over. That would have been a red card.

34 mins: GOAL! Villa are on the board – and they’ve got a slither of hope to cling to!

Moments after a penalty appeal didn’t go his way, Tielemans gets a slice of luck as his bending shot takes a massive deflection off Pacho and bulges the net.

The deficit is reduced to three. Surely they can’t turn this around, right?

32 mins: Penalty appeal for Villa as Tielemans is bundled over in the box after being slipped through by Rashford.

Referee was having none of that, no matter how widespread the appeals were from the fans.

It says something about the adventurousness of this PSG team that, rather than sitting on a 3-1 lead, they have scored twice courtesy of full-backs who ran almost the length of the pitch to get in the Villa box.

First Achraf Hakimi, then Nuno Mendes. Attack has been their preferred method of defence.

27 mins: GOAL! It’s another LIGHTNING counter – and surely that’s it for Villa.

For a second PSG look like they’re about to be dispossessed in their own box – but they get out and play up the field in seconds.

Dembele squares it to Mendes in the centre of the box, who takes one touch and bends it into the bottom-left corner, with the ball flying in off the post.

One marauding full-back opened the scoring, the other doubled their lead. Mendes and Hakimi, the best in their position.

24 mins: CLOSE! Rogers has been one of Villa’s key sources of threat this season, and he showed exactly why there.

He receives the ball and drives to square up against Pacho, fooling the defender before whipping his effort just past the far post.

One of these chances go in and we’ve got a serious tie on our hands.