Nottingham Forest v Malmö, Rangers v Braga, and Additional – Europa League Updates

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Important Updates

  • Final whistle: Young Boys 1-2 Aston Villa
  • Goal scored!: Aston Villa 2-1 Young Boys (Joël Monteiro 90+1)
  • Game over: Feyenoord defeated 1-3 by Celtic
  • Lineups announced: Nottingham Forest v Malmö teams!
  • Starting players: Rangers v Braga teams!
  • Introduction

Latest Standings

The opening scores have significant impact on the league rankings. Celtic climbed to 17th position and regained position in the safety of knockout positions.

Position Side Played Goal Difference Pts
1Midtjylland5712
2Aston Villa5512
3Freiburg5511
4Ferencvaros5411
5FC Porto5310
17Celtic5-17
25Nottm Forest415
35Rangers4-70
33Malmo FF4-51

Full-time: Aston Villa 2-1 Young Boys

Villa managed to hold on for the victory and moved level on points with table-toppers Midtjylland at the top of the competition table. The English side had difficulty of that at the end.

Late Goal: Monteiro Scores

Young Boys gave themselves a chance through Monteiro but were left with four more minutes to get the tying goal!

Full-time: Feyenoord 1-3 Celtic

A significant and important win for the Scottish team. Although they went 1-0 down, Celtic fought back with goals from the Korean forward, the Japanese midfielder and Nygren.

Latest Action

Aston Villa, concurrently, retained a 2-0 lead over Young Boys with around five minutes left at their home ground.

The Dutch forward's brace there sparked furious scenes in the opposition stands, with visiting fans clashing with police. Scuffles broke out and items launched at both the officers and toward the field, with the player being struck in the head by a drinking vessel.

Team News: Nottingham Forest v Malmö

The Reds: John Victor, The defender, Milenkovic, The defender, Morato, Yates, Sangare, Dominguez, McAtee, The winger, The striker.

Malmö FF: The goalkeeper, Larsen, Jansson, Duric, The full-back, Haksabanovic, Johnsen, The midfielder, Bolin, The forward, The striker.

Match official: Harm Osmers (Germany)

Team News: Rangers v Braga

The Glasgow side: Butland, Tavernier, The center-back, The defender, Aarons, Barron, Diomande, Raskin, Gassama, The forward, Chermiti.

The Arsenalistas: The goalkeeper, Gomez, Lagerbielke, The defender, Arrey-Mbi, Zalazar, Joao Moutinho, Gorby, Martinez, Navarro, Horta.

Match official: Allard Lindhout (Netherlands)

Match Background

The European clash and historical connections. The two clubs have a special connection, also meeting in Forest's most recent continental tour in the 1995-96 Uefa Cup, but it is the premier competition final decades past that entwines these two together, with Britain's first £1m player Francis scoring the winner of a pretty miserable final to clinch eternal glory for the Forest supporters.

"The legendary management duo, modestly dressed amid all the excitement and joy, stood for a moment on a bench calmly observing the mafficking," commented the writer. This represented an outstanding achievement that it is hard to see being repeated – from second tier to continental competition in a short period."

Worth mentioning to pause a little on Malmö, who became the pioneering and only Nordic team to make the championship match under manager Houghton.

The current fixture is a very different to that pinnacle, closer perhaps to the previous continental meeting between Forest and Malmö in the mid-nineties. Forest are riding high after thrashing Liverpool at Anfield on Saturday, while Malmö haven't played officially since last month following the completion of Allsvenskan. The general expectation is on the English side tonight.

Plenty of other action on offer in this match tracking. Rangers have already been lost to a Portuguese opponent this season. Rangers are at the foot of the league rankings at the half-way stage of the initial phase with no points whatsoever. They badly want a victory if they are to have any hope of making a late surge for a qualification place.

Coverage will persist with all nine of the 8pm kick-offs and provide the latest scores from the earlier matches, including Aston Villa v Young Boys and Feyenoord v Celtic.

Aaron Calderon
Aaron Calderon

A political analyst and journalist based in Amsterdam, specializing in Dutch governance and European affairs.

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