'If anyone is going to turn it around - it is gong to be us'
Aston Villa forward Morgan Rogers says there is "massive belief" from team that they can turn their Champions League quarter-final tie around.Unai Emery's side need to overturn a two-goal deficit at Villa Park on Tuesday night after succumbing to a 3-1 defeat by Paris Saint-Germain in the first leg.It is set to be a tough task for the Villains against the Ligue 1 leaders as they look to reach the semi-finals of the competition for the first time since they won the 1981-82 European Cup."There's massive belief in the dressing room. I know most people wrote us off before this tie, but in the first leg we gave a good account of ourselves," said Rogers, who scored in the first leg."Of course, there are things that we needed to improve on but we know [PSG] now. There is a task on our hands."Under the lights at home in the quarter-finals of this competition, there's not many better places to be."If anyone is going to turn it around, it is gong to be us. It's down to us and we are excited for that challenge."It's going to be difficult and I am not saying that we are going to do it, but we will definitely give it a shot and go out there to win."While boss Emery has a lot of European competition pedigree under his belt, it is has been Villa's first foray into the top-tier cup competition on the continent since 1983, but that has not overawed the players."We have tremendous belief in the group, our manager and the coaching staff," Rogers added. "We are here for a reason. We have taken on any battle that has come our way this season and we have won the game that we needed to be where we are."You could think we don't deserve to be here but that's not how we look at it. We fully deserve to here and we need to keep pushing."
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