Under the watchful eye of His Royal Highness Prince William, Aston Villa sent the heir to the British throne into hysterics when Morgan Rogers tapped home the opening goal against PSG, who responded through the equally electrifying Desire Doue and Khvicha Kvaratskhelia at the Parc des Princes.

Had Villa fans been offered a 2-1 defeat ahead of the first leg, most surely would have accepted such a fate, but the mountain that Unai Emery's men must climb became remarkably steeper when Nuno Mendes added to PSG's advantage in the dying embers.

A two-goal deficit is not insurmountable for Emery against his former employers, though - as he learned when Barcelona astonishingly overturned a 4-0 deficit versus his PSG outfit in the 2017 Remontada - and his Villa side are statistically one of the most in-form teams in the Premier League at the minute.

Indeed, the Lions are one of only three sides in the division to have won each of their last three top-flight games - alongside Wolverhampton Wanderers and Newcastle United - most recently surviving a late scare to edge out Nottingham Forest 2-1 and strengthen their grip on a top-seven spot in the Premier League table, where they are also just two points off the top five.

The beating of Forest marked a seventh consecutive victory across all competitions for Villa before their unsuccessful jaunt to Paris, but their struggles immediately after a European night are well-documented; they have won just two of their last nine Premier League matches taking place straight after a Champions League contest.

That statistic is surely the only crumb of comfort that a doomed Southampton can take ahead of Saturday's mismatch on paper, though, as the Premier League's whipping boys are now simply fighting to avoid becoming the worst team to ever grace the competition.

The side formerly led by Ivan Juric needed to stun Tottenham in gameweek 31 to delay their relegation to the Championship, but a Brennan Johnson brace and Mathys Tel penalty either side of Mateus Fernandes's consolation confirmed what had been inevitable for a long while.

After suffering the earliest relegation in Premier League history - going down with seven games remaining - the Saints quickly parted company with Juric and will see out the rest of the Premier League season under the wing of Simon Rusk, with Adam Lallana as his right-hand man.

Rusk's task is simple on paper - collect two more points to avoid matching or breaking Derby County's lowest-ever total of 11 from the 2007-08 season - but that will be far easier said than done for a Southampton side who have failed to win any of their last 10 home league games.

In fact, another defeat at St Mary's this weekend would see Southampton break another unwanted record - they have already been beaten 12 times on their own patch in the top flight this season, but have never lost as many as 13 home league games in a single campaign before.

The Championship-bound hosts did not embarrass themselves at Villa Park earlier this season by any stretch, but that 1-0 loss means that they have been bested in each of their last four league matches versus the Lions, shipping seven goals and netting zero in that time.

Southampton possible starting lineup:

Ramsdale; Bednarek, Harwood-Bellis, Stephens; Walker-Peters, Smallbone, Ugochukwu, Manning; Fernandes; Onuachu, Sulemana

Aston Villa possible starting lineup:

Martinez; Garcia, Disasi, Mings, Maatsen; Onana, Tielemans; Malen, Asensio, Ramsey; Watkins