The 19-year-old Jimoh-Aloba’s strike followed Tyrone Mings<\/a>‘ equalizer at Villa Park. Morgan Rogers<\/a> sparked the comeback in the 64th after the visitors built a 2-0 lead an own goal from Victor Lindelof<\/a> and then Moussa Yeo’s goal.<\/p>\n Villa lost Ollie Watkins<\/a> in the first half after the striker left the pitch holding his right hamstring.<\/p>\n “He felt something, but not much. We will test him,” Villa head coach Unai Emery said. “Hopefully, it is nothing serious. I don’t know yet if he will be available for Sunday.”<\/p>\n Villa wasn’t able to overtake Lyon<\/a> atop the 36-team standings, however, after the French team beat 10-man PAOK<\/a> 4-2 remain in front of Unai Emery’s team on goal difference. Both Lyon and Villa had already secured a spot in the round of 16 in March.<\/p>\n The seven PAOK fans who died in a minibus crash in Romania this week on their way to attend a game between Lyon and their club were honored at stadiums in France and Greece.<\/p>\n Lyon expressed its “sincere condolences” to PAOK and supporters’ associations for rival Greek clubs Olympiakos<\/a>, Panathinaikos<\/a>, Aris<\/a>, and others issued messages of unity and condolences.<\/p>\n A moment of silence was observed at Groupama Stadium in Lyon – and in Athens where Panathinaikos played Roma<\/a>.<\/p>\n Like in the Champions League<\/a>, the top eight finishers advance automatically to the last 16. The teams placed from nine to 24 enter a two-leg playoff.<\/p>\n The rest of the top aight are: third-place Midtjylland<\/a>, Real Betis<\/a>, Porto<\/a>, Braga<\/a>, Freiburg<\/a>, and Roma.<\/p>\n Midtjylland, a Danish club, beat Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 to move up to third, two points back of Lyon and Villa.<\/p>\n In Seville, former Manchester United<\/a> winger Antony<\/a> scored and set up Abde Ezzalzouli<\/a>‘s goal in Real Betis’s 2-1 win over Feyenoord<\/a>.<\/p>\n Porto rallied from a goal down to beat Rangers<\/a> 3-1 and jump from ninth to fifth, Braga advanced in the sixth spot after a 0-0 draw at Go Ahead Eagles<\/a>, and 10-man Freiburg slipped to ninth with a 1-0 loss at Lille.<\/p>\n Jan Zi\u00f3\u0142kowski<\/a> headed in an 80th-minute equalizer for Roma in a 1-1 draw with Panathinaikos.<\/p>\n Celtic<\/a> claimed one of the five playoff spots that remained Thursday by beating Utrecht<\/a> 4-2. The playoffs draw is Friday.<\/p>\n The Scottish giant led 3-0 within the opening 20 minutes at Celtic Park and Benjamin Nygren’s early goal, Nick Viergever<\/a>‘s own goal and Arne Engels’ penalty.<\/p>\n Igor Jesus<\/a> scored twice for Nottingham Forest<\/a> in a 4-0 win over Ferencv\u00e1ros<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jan 29, 2026, 06:16 PM ET Jamaldeen Jimoh-Aloba‘s first-ever goal for Aston Villa was an 87th-minute winner in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":438232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-438231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/438231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=438231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Aston Villa ended the league phase of the UEFA Europa League in second \u2060place after a 3-2 comeback win at home against Salzburg.\u00a0Photo by ADAM VAUGHAN\/EPA\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n