Robbie Keane’s Ferencvaros side recorded a 2-1 win over Glasgow Rangers in Budapest this evening.<\/p>\n
Gers striker Bojan Miovski scored an acrobatic opener in the 27th minute with the visitors\u2019 first shot on goal.<\/p>\n
However, Bence Otvos levelled for Robbie Keane\u2019s side in the fifth of five added minutes at the end of the first half when the Ibrox side let their guard down.<\/p>\n
The Light Blues offered almost nothing of an attacking threat after the break and they succumbed again in the 73rd minute when Ferencvaros striker Barnabas Varga easily headed in from close range to leave the Gers effectively out of the tournament.<\/p>\n
Second-half substitute Youri Tielemans hit the winner to help Aston Villa move a step closer to automatic qualification with a 2-1 win at Basel.<\/p>\n
Villa’s win means they are now three points clear inside the top eight with two matches to play and guaranteed themselves a play-off spot at the very least.<\/p>\n
Evann Guessand got Villa off to a dream start with his second goal of the Europa League campaign but the home side grew into it, Leo Leroy saw a goal ruled out for offside but Flavius Daniliuc was not to be denied an equalising goal moments later.<\/p>\n
Tielemans replaced Matty Cash at the break and it only took him eight minutes to make his mark when he restored Villa\u2019s lead with a neat finish.<\/p>\n
Basel had won their last seven Europa League matches at home which made Villa\u2019s victory at St Jakob-Park all the more impressive and stretched their impressive winning run to eight matches in all competitions.<\/p>\n
Igor Jesus’ late goal sealed Nottingham Forest a 2-1 win in Utrecht and boosted their hopes of a top-eight finish in the group phase.<\/p>\n
Arnaud Kalimuendo’s second-half opener for Forest was cancelled out by Utrecht substitute Mike van der Hoorn before Jesus stepped off the bench to fire the visitors’ late winner.<\/p>\n
Forest bounced back from last weekend\u2019s disappointing defeat at Everton to secure their third win in this season\u2019s competition \u2013 their first on the road \u2013 and move on to 11 points after six matches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Robbie Keane’s Ferencvaros side recorded a 2-1 win over Glasgow Rangers in Budapest this evening. Gers striker Bojan…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":187183,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":["post-187182","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\/187182","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=187182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/187183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}