{"id":163515,"date":"2025-11-28T02:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163515\/"},"modified":"2025-11-28T02:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T02:30:07","slug":"ferguson-helps-roma-to-victory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/163515\/","title":{"rendered":"Ferguson helps Roma to victory"},"content":{"rendered":"

Evan Ferguson was a 61st-minute substitute as Roma ended Midtjylland’s perfect record in the Europa League with a 2-1 home win on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Last Sunday the Republic of Ireland striker ended his almost 13-month goal drought at club level when he scored in a 3-1 win at Cremonese that sent Roma top of Serie A.<\/p>\n

He started on the bench this evening, coming on for Matias Soule just after the hour mark.<\/p>\n

Midtjylland were the only side on maximum points after four matches but it was Roma who went in front at the Stadio Olimpico in the seventh minute.<\/p>\n

Zeki Celik’s floated pass into the box was met by Neil El Aynaoui’s crisp volley to put the Serie A leaders in control and Roma looked to have wrapped up the win seven minutes from time with Stephan El Shaarawy’s side-footed finish.<\/p>\n

The visitors pulled one back with three minutes remaining, substitute Paulinho’s goal making for a nervy ending for the home side. El Shaarawy rocked the crossbar with another effort as Roma held on and are now on nine points.\ufeff<\/p>\n

Midtjylland still lead the table but Aston Villa’s win against <\/a>Young Boys<\/a> moves the Premier League side level on 12 points with the Danes and Lyon, who went top of the standings with a 6-0 rout of Maccabi Tel Aviv as Corentin Lorisso scored a hat-trick, with Maccabi’s Sagiv Jehezkel sent off late on.<\/p>\n

Martin O’Neill saw Celtic come from behind to beat Feyenoord 3-1<\/a> in Rotterdam in what is expected to be his final European game in charge.<\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest picked up their second win<\/a> in the competition as goals from Ryan Yates, Arnaud Kalimuendo and Nikola Milenkovic saw them ease to a 3-0 victory over Malmo.<\/p>\n

However, Rangers’ wait for a victory goes on as they were held to a 1-1 draw at home to 10-man Sporting Braga.<\/p>\n

Freiburg missed the chance to go top after they were held to a goalless draw away to Viktoria Plzen, leaving them in fourth.<\/p>\n

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\nRobbie Keane watches his Ferencvaros side in action against Fenerbahce<\/p>\n

Real Betis moved up to fifth with a 2-1 win over Utrecht, and Robbie Keane’s Ferencvaros are sixth, also on 11 points, following a 1-1 draw away to Fenerbahce.<\/p>\n

Porto sit eighth, level on points with Sporting Braga, after cruising to a 3-0 win over rock-bottom Nice as Gabri Veiga scored a first-half brace.<\/p>\n

Lille thrashed Dinamo Zagreb 4-0 while Ludogorets Razgrad held off a late fightback from Celta Vigo to pick up their second three-point haul with a 3-2 win.<\/p>\n

Jamie Leweling’s first-half brace helped Stuttgart to a 4-0 win away to Go Ahead Eagles, while Bologna overpowered RB Salzburg in the second half to secure a 4-1 win.<\/p>\n

Genk hung on for a 2-1 win over Basel, Davide Calabria’s 74th-minute strike gave Panathinaikos a 2-1 win over Sturm Graz, while a late equaliser from Emil Kornvig earned Brann a point from a 1-1 draw at PAOK.<\/p>\n

Red Star Belgrade were reduced to 10 men early on with Franklin Tebo Uchenna dismissed, but Bruno Duarte’s second-half strike earned a 1-0 win over FCSB.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Evan Ferguson was a 61st-minute substitute as Roma ended Midtjylland’s perfect record in the Europa League with a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":163516,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-163515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/163516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}