Malmö vs Nottingham Forest, Rangers v Braga, and More – UEFA Europa League News
Live Updates
Important Updates
- Final whistle: Villa 2-1 Young Boys
- Goal scored!: Aston Villa 2-1 Young Boys (Joël Monteiro 90+1)
- Match concluded: Feyenoord defeated 1-3 by Celtic
- Team news: Nottingham Forest v Malmö teams!
- Lineups revealed: Rangers and Braga lineups
- Introduction
Latest Standings
These early results strongly influence the competition standings. Celtic have moved up to the 17th spot and returned to the secure playoff places.
| Rank | Team | Played | GD | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Midtjylland | 5 | 7 | 12 |
| 2 | Aston Villa | 5 | 5 | 12 |
| 3 | Freiburg | 5 | 5 | 11 |
| 4 | Ferencvaros | 5 | 4 | 11 |
| 5 | FC Porto | 5 | 3 | 10 |
| 17 | Celtic | 5 | -1 | 7 |
| 25 | Nottm Forest | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| 35 | Rangers | 4 | -7 | 0 |
| 33 | Malmo FF | 4 | -5 | 1 |
Final Score: Aston Villa 2-1
Aston Villa secured for the win and went equal on points with front-runners Midtjylland at the summit of the group rankings. The English side made hard work of that during the closing minutes.
90+1: Monteiro Pulls One Back
Young Boys earned a hope through Monteiro but had just four more minutes to get the tying goal!
Full-time: Feyenoord 1-3 Celtic
A memorable and crucial win for the Celtic. Even after falling 1-0 down, Celtic responded strongly with goals from Yang Hyun-jun, Hatate and Nygren.
Match Updates
Villa, concurrently, held onto a 2-0 lead over Young Boys with approximately five minutes left at the stadium.
Malen's double there triggered intense reactions in the away end, with Swiss fans confronting police. Punches were thrown and items launched at both the authorities and at the playing surface, with the goalscorer being struck in the head by a drinking vessel.
Team News: Nottingham Forest v Malmö
Forest: The goalkeeper, Abbott, Milenkovic, The defender, The full-back, Yates, The defensive midfielder, Dominguez, The attacker, The winger, The striker.
Malmö FF: The goalkeeper, Stryger Larsen, Jansson, Duric, Rosler, Haksabanovic, The midfielder, Skogmar, Bolin, Gudjohnsen, Busanello.
Match official: Harm Osmers (from Germany)
Lineups: Rangers vs Braga
The Light Blues: Butland, The defender, Fernandez, The defender, Aarons, Barron, The midfielder, Raskin, The attacker, Danilo, Chermiti.
Braga: The goalkeeper, Gomez, The center-back, The defender, The full-back, The midfielder, The experienced midfielder, The midfielder, Martinez, The forward, Horta.
Official: Allard Lindhout (Netherlands)
Match Background
The European clash and memories of 1979. The two clubs have a unique relationship, also facing each other in Forest's last European campaign in the UEFA Cup of 1995-96, but it is the premier competition final decades past that entwines these two together, with the record-breaking signing Trevor Francis scoring the winner of a rather dull championship game to secure historic victory for the Forest supporters.
"Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, unassuming and low-key amid all the colour and celebration, stood for a moment on a bench calmly observing the mafficking," commented the writer. Their achievement was an extraordinary accomplishment that it is difficult to imagine happening again – from the lower league to continental competition in just three years."
Worth mentioning to reflect upon Malmö, who became the pioneering and only Swedish club to reach the final under English manager Bob Houghton.
Tonight's game is a distant from that summit, closer perhaps to the earlier European encounter between Forest and Malmö in the mid-nineties. Forest are riding high after beating Liverpool 3-0 at Liverpool's home on Saturday, while Malmö have been inactive since early November following the conclusion of their domestic campaign. The smart money is on the home team tonight.
Additional games on offer in this clockwatch. The Glasgow club have already been defeated by a Portuguese opponent this season. Rangers are rock bottom of the competition table at the middle of the group stage with exactly zero. They urgently require a victory if they are to have any opportunity for a recovery for a knockout position.
Coverage will persist with all nine of the 8pm kick-offs and provide the most recent results from the previous games, including Aston Villa v Young Boys and Feyenoord v Celtic.
