Nobody would have tipped Aston Villa to outlast Liverpool and Manchester City in this season's Champions League.
Yet here they are in the quarter-finals, preparing to take on Paris Saint-Germain, former club of manager Unai Emery and the current employers of Villa's match-winner Marco Asensio.
Asensio has won the Champions League three times with Real Madrid and, under UEFA rules, is eligible to face his parent club in the last eight. The last time Villa played a Belgian club at Villa Park in this competition, they beat Anderlecht 1-0 in the semi-finals on their way to lifting the trophy in 1982.