{"id":592071,"date":"2026-05-19T08:00:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592071\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T08:00:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T08:00:10","slug":"aston-villa-set-to-be-given-a-good-game-by-freiburg-bundesliga-commentaor-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/592071\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa &#8216;set to be given a good game by Freiburg,&#8217; Bundesliga commentaor says."},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is amazing when you consider how clubs hire and fire these days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I think most days Villa would win the game, but Freiburg do not underestimate or think they&#8217;re a lesser team because they come from the Bundesliga,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The final between the sides from Germany and England will take place on Wednesday in Istanbul, Turkey, kicking off at 20:00 BST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">O&#8217;Hagan will not be commentating but he will be watching, and said his brother was a Villa fan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be an amazing occasion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;The fans from both teams will make it really a night to remember in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;If Freiburg win great for the Bundesliga, but if Aston Villa win I&#8217;ll be as happy for their fans as anybody.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8220;It is amazing when you consider how clubs hire and fire these days. &#8220;I think most days Villa&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":592072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-592071","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592071","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=592071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/592072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}