{"id":395961,"date":"2026-04-16T22:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395961\/"},"modified":"2026-04-16T22:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T22:32:10","slug":"europa-league-and-conference-league-forest-villa-palace-reach-semifinals-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/395961\/","title":{"rendered":"Europa League and Conference League: Forest, Villa, Palace reach semifinals – as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"

Apr 16, 2026, 04:35 PM ET<\/p>\n

Aston Villa<\/a>, Nottingham Forest<\/a> and Crystal Palace<\/a> have all progressed to European semifinals, with Villa’s 4-0 thumping over Bologna<\/a> the standout result.<\/p>\n

Unai Emery’s side built on their 3-1 advantage as Ollie Watkins<\/a> netted his 100th goal for Villa, and finishes from Emiliano Buend\u00eda<\/a>, Morgan Rogers<\/a> and Ezri Konsa<\/a> capped off a dominant display.<\/p>\n

Forest were pushed all the way by a ten-man Porto side, but Morgan Gibbs-White<\/a>‘s deflected shot was enough to suffice a 2-1 win, sealing their first European semifinal in 42 years.<\/p>\n

Villa and Forest will meet in the Europa League semifinals, with a place in the final in Istanbul hanging in the balance.<\/p>\n

Elsewhere in the Conference League, Palace fell to a 2-1 defeat to Fiorentina<\/a>, but their 3-0 win at home last week proved crucial to propel them into a first-ever European semifinal.<\/p>\n

Relive the thrilling action below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Apr 16, 2026, 04:35 PM ET Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace have all progressed to European…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395962,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,46,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-395961","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395961","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395961\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}