Aston Villa fought back from 2-0 down to beat Red Bull Salzburg and finish second in the Europa League league phase, but Ollie Watkins was forced off to compound their injury issues.<\/p>\n
Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba’s first senior goal earned a late victory for the hosts, who had already qualified for the last 16, at Villa Park.<\/p>\n
Karim Konate and Moussa Yeo had put the visitors in charge, before Morgan Rogers cut the deficit and Tyrone Mings levelled with 15 minutes remaining, then 19-year-old Jimoh-Aloba struck late on.<\/p>\n
However, striker Watkins came off with a hamstring problem and could now join the injured John McGinn and Youri Tielemans on the sidelines, with Boubacar Kamara already out for the season.<\/p>\n
Villa’s injury woes meant Liverpool loanee Harvey Elliott came in from the cold for his first appearance in almost four months. <\/p>\n
He nearly scored within 30 seconds, only for the diving Alexander Schlager to make a fortunate stop with his heel, before the visitors took control. <\/p>\n
Emi Martinez made a double save to deny Soumaila Diabate and Konate before Villa conceded a calamitous opener. <\/p>\n
Mings was robbed by Edmund Baidoo and Konate’s awful shot with the goal gaping looked to be going wide before being turned in by Victor Lindelof. <\/p>\n
Within four minutes of the restart substitute Yeo flicked in Salzburg’s second, but Rogers pulled a goal back just after the hour – after Sota Kitano should have made it 3-0 – and Mings atoned for his error by heading in with 14 minutes left. <\/p>\n
Substitute Jimoh-Aloba then grabbed an 87th-minute winner when he found the corner from 15 yards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa fought back from 2-0 down to beat Red Bull Salzburg and finish second in the Europa…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":397799,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-397798","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397798","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397798"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397798\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}