{"id":594379,"date":"2026-05-20T13:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594379\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T13:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T13:38:10","slug":"football-live-aston-villa-fans-arrive-in-istanbul-for-europa-league-final","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/594379\/","title":{"rendered":"Football LIVE: Aston Villa fans arrive in Istanbul for Europa League final"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘I just want Villa to get over the line for the fans’published at 13:29 BST<\/p>\n

13:29 BST<\/p>\n

Freiburg v Aston Villa (20:00 BST)<\/p>\n

\"\"BBC 5 Live Breakfast<\/p>\n

\"AstonImage source, Getty Images<\/p>\n

Former Aston Villa striker Dion Dublin speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live Breakfast earlier about Villa playing in the Europa League final tonight: “It’s absolutely huge. I was at the club for six years, in the late nineties and early noughties, I was playing with Ginola, Merson and Southgate, some of the best players ever and we didn’t really achieve anything either.<\/p>\n

“The fans have had to wait a long time for any success at all, any trophies. Now it is here, with this group of players under one of the best managers this football club could ever get hold of. I think the balance between Unai Emery and Villa is a very, very good match. It works, they have given him full control. The players have got on board and look where they are, look at the players they have.<\/p>\n

“Super John McGinn has been brilliant, Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins has found his form just in time for the England squad. Everything at Aston Villa is very good. I just want them to get over the line for the fans.<\/p>\n

“Unai Emery will make sure that his boys are on it and that Villa are very hard to beat. When they are in possession and they are going forward trying to score goals, he makes sure that his team are solid at the back, just in case. That is so important, especially tonight, don’t get caught on the break, don’t get too giddy because we should win the game but please respect the opposition.<\/p>\n

“I’m calling this Villa 3-1 in normal time. Ollie Watkins brace, Morgan Rogers far post header. I can’t give you any more information than that. Villa bringing it home, just wait and see.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I just want Villa to get over the line for the fans’published at 13:29 BST 13:29 BST Freiburg…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":594380,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-594379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594379","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=594379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/594380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}