Aston Villa handed Club Brugge revenge mission in Champions League

The teams will meet for the second time in the competition this season, with Villa looking to avenge November’s 1-0 defeat in the league phase, a match made infamous by Tyrone Mings picking up a goal kick to concede a penalty.

Villa are scheduled to be away at Brugge in the first leg on either Tuesday March 4 or Wednesday March 5, with the home leg taking place the following week. The schedule will be confirmed later on Friday.

The draw also mapped out the possible route to the final for Unai Emery’s team, with either Liverpool or Paris St-Germain awaiting in the quarter-finals should they progress past Brugge.

PSV Eindhoven, Arsenal, Real Madrid or Atletico Madrid are Villa’s potential semi-final opponents. All three remaining Premier League teams ended up in the same half of the draw.

Villa, who qualified for the last-16 courtesy of a top-eight finish in the league phase, knew they would be facing either Brugge or Borussia Dortmund after both progressed through the play-off round.

Brugge scraped into the latter after finishing 24th in the league standings but then stunned Atalanta with a 5-2 aggregate play-off round win to set-up a rematch with Emery’s men. 

Should Villa progress, they would be away in the first leg of their quarter-final with either Liverpool or PSG, before hosting the second leg. Those ties are due to take place in April.