ASTON VILLA star Marco Asensio will be able to play against his parent club PSG in the Champions League quarter-final.
The 29-year-old joined Villa in January on a six-month loan from the French giants.
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Asensio has made a stunning start to life in Birmingham, scoring two last night to seal last-16 victory over Club Brugge.
The strikes took his goal tally to seven in eight games.
Villa face PSG in the next round and the Spanish midfielder is eligible to play.
Players are banned from facing their parent side in the Premier League but this rule does not apply in the Champions League.
Uefa regulations state teams do not have “any influence whatsoever over the players that another club may (or may not) field in a match”.
Villa had the rule go against them earlier this season when on loan man Samuel Iling-Junior came on at Villa Park for Bologna in the league phase.
Looking ahead to the quarter-final, it is not just Asensio who will be looking to haunt his old employers on April 9 and 15 as boss Unai Emery used to manage the Parisians from 2016 to 2018.
But fans reckon it is written in the stars for the ex-Real Madrid star to score the winner, with one saying: “That would be absolutely beautiful.”
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Another added: “Asensio knocking out PSG in the next round of the Champions League is the sort of s***housery I’m all up for.”
He already has Champions League pedigree, having lifted the trophy three times at Real Madrid.
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