Aston Villa V Lille: Europa League Last 16, Second Leg – Live

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The first leg. A reminder of what happened past week, erstwhile Ollie Watkins gave Villa a one-goal lead pinch a second-half header.

Unai Emery makes 4 changes to his Aston Villa broadside from nan XI that started nan 1-0 triumph successful Lille past week. Tammy Abraham, Ian Maatsen, Victor Lindelöf and skipper John McGinn are in; Ollie Watkins, Emiliano Buendía, Ezri Konsa and Lucas Digne driblet to nan bench.

Olivier Giroud, erstwhile of Arsenal and Chelsea, leads nan statement for Lille. Nabil Bentaleb, formerly of Tottenham and Newcastle, starts successful midfield.

The teams

Aston Villa: Martinez, Bogarde, Lindelof, Torres, Maatsen, Onana, Douglas Luiz, Sancho, Rogers, McGinn, Abraham.
Subs: Bizot, Wright, Cash, Konsa, Mings, Elliott, Buendia, Watkins, Digne, Garcia, Bailey.

Lille: Ozer, Meunier, Mbemba, Alexsandro Victor, Ngoy, Bouaddi, Bentaleb, Perraud, Mukau, Giroud, Correia.
Subs: Bodart, Lanssade, Fernandez, Arnar Haraldsson, Edjouma, Santos, Mandi, Verdonk, Diaoune, Baret, Boussadia.

Referee: Davide Massa (Italy).

Preamble

Aston Villa should beryllium bully for this. They’ve only faced Lille erstwhile earlier successful European competition, and sewage done successful nan 2023-24 Conference League quarters. They’ve won each of their past six Europa League games, a tally that by meaning includes nan first limb of this tie. Lille person ne'er won successful England, losing connected their past 7 visits. And Villa person Unai Emery astatine nan wheel: Mr Europa League has won this title 4 times, pinch a runners-up badge thrown successful to boot. But it’s not been a banner week for English teams connected nan continent, truthful let’s not get excessively acold up of ourselves. Bologna aliases Roma waiting successful nan quarters, mind. Kick-off is astatine 8pm GMT. It’s on!