{"id":626828,"date":"2026-05-06T12:35:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626828\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T12:35:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T12:35:10","slug":"football-live-europa-and-conference-league-news-conferences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/626828\/","title":{"rendered":"Football live: Europa and Conference League news conferences"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than a trophypublished at 13:29 BST<\/p>\n<p>13:29 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-fxb76l-Paragraph e14e9ror4\">Aston Villa v Nott&#8217;m Forest (0-1 agg; Thu, 20:00 BST)<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Son Heung-Min of Tottenham Hotspur prepares to lift the UEFA Europa League trophy\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/d737a719-bb77-489a-af2e-630354b501d3.jpg.webp.webp\"  width=\"1022\" height=\"575\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, Getty Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As they prepare to fight for a place in a European final, Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Crystal Palace players will be dreaming of that moment when they can get their hands on a trophy. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But for the clubs involved, the opportunity to compete in Europe again next season is just as valuable. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">If Palace win the Conference League, they&#8217;ll earn a place in next season&#8217;s Europa League &#8211; a competition they missed out on last season by a technicality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Meanwhile, if Villa or Forest win the Europa League, they&#8217;ll automatically qualify for the Champions League, as Tottenham did last May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A huge incentive to come out on top in tomorrow&#8217;s semi-finals. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More than a trophypublished at 13:29 BST 13:29 BST Aston Villa v Nott&#8217;m Forest (0-1 agg; Thu, 20:00&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626829,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-626828","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\/626828","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=626828"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626828\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626829"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}