UNAI EMERY suffered a Greek tragedy as his dreams of ending Villa’s trophy drought died.
The Spaniard was looking to finally plonk some silverware in a barren cabinet at Villa Park but the Mount Olympus-sized task proved beyond his injury-hit side.
Chasing down a two-goal deficit from the first leg in Birmingham was always going to be a tough ask – only three teams had done so in European history – but for a team hunting a Champions League place, optimism remained.
But it was dashed inside 10 minutes as Ayoub El Kaabi – their nemesis in the first leg who grabbed a treble – struck an early goal to leave them even further behind.
His second, 10 minutes from time, sparked a red and white party in the stands.
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