Barcelona v Aston Villa: Champions League – live

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“One more match. Just one more match.” Sure, Unai. Sure. Just like all the other matches that generated a local tremor measured at 1 on the Richter scale when that seventh and final goal went in at the Camp Nou in March 2017. “It was inevitable that Unai Emery would be asked about the Remontada game on the eve of Aston Villa’s Champions League engagement with Barcelona, his own first trip back to the Camp Nou in this competition since one of the most visceral and traumatic experiences of his managerial career.

“Emery was Paris Saint-Germain’s manager the night the Neymar-Messi-Suárez triple-godhead reversed a 4-0 first-leg quarter-final deficit in this stadium. Speaking of Barcelona and subtext: “Plays, novels, songs. They all have a subtext. Which I take to mean a hidden message or import of some kind. So subtext, we know. But what do you call the message or meaning that’s right there on the surface? Completely open and obvious. They never talk about that. What do you call … what’s above the subtext?” “The text.” Aston Villa are