{"id":596051,"date":"2026-05-21T11:14:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:14:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596051\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:14:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:14:11","slug":"aston-villa-win-europa-league-reaction-to-unai-emerys-side-beating-freiburg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/596051\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa win Europa League: Reaction to Unai Emery&#8217;s side beating Freiburg"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in 2019&#8230;published at 10:49 BST<\/p>\n<p>10:49 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/f6ea3c69-98f2-4657-9128-35fca1ac6b38.jpg.webp.webp\" width=\"64\" height=\"64\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/football\/teams\/aston-villa\" class=\"ssrcss-1b4qg0x-ContributorLink etflsgg0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Aston Villa\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/86f6fca7-ec5a-439b-ac44-9f38d7d65363.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1024\" height=\"627\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Almost seven years to the day, on 27 May 2019, Aston Villa beat Derby County 2-1 at Wembley to win the Championship play-off final as they were promoted to the Premier League after three years in second tier.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Anwar El Ghazi and John McGinn netted Villa&#8217;s goals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Fancy a blast from the past?<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Here is the Aston Villa team from that day:<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Aston Villa XI: Steer, Elmohamady, Tuanzebe, Mings, Taylor, Hourihane, McGinn, Grealish (c), Adomah, El Ghazi, Abraham.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Subs: Kalinic, Hause, Jedinak, Whelan, Lansbury, Green, Kodjia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">While most have moved on to pastures new, John McGinn remains and is now Aston Villa&#8217;s captain, while defender Tyrone Mings is also still at the club.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Tammy Abraham, who had a successful loan spell during the 2018-19 season, rejoined Aston Villa in January 2026 &#8211; arriving on a permanent basis from Turkish side Besiktas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in 2019&#8230;published at 10:49 BST 10:49 BST Aston Villa Image source, Getty Images Almost seven years to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":596052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-596051","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\/596051","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=596051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/596051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/596052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=596051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=596051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=596051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}