Nottingham Forest v Malmö, Rangers vs Braga, and Additional – Europa League News
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Key Events
- Full-time: Villa 2-1 Young Boys
- Score!: Aston Villa 2-1 Young Boys (Joël Monteiro 90+1)
- Full-time: Celtic 3-1 Feyenoord
- Team news: Starting players for Forest vs Malmö
- Starting players: Rangers v Braga teams!
- Introduction
Current Table
The opening scores strongly influence the Europa League table. Celtic have moved up to 17th position and regained position in the safety of qualification spots.
| Position | Team | Played | Goal Difference | Points |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Villa managed to hold on for the victory and became tied on points with table-toppers Midtjylland at the summit of the league phase standings. The Birmingham club struggled of that at the end.
Late Goal: Monteiro Scores
Young Boys earned a hope through Monteiro but were left with four more minutes to score the leveler!
Celtic Secure Victory
A famous and valuable win for the Celtic. Despite going 1-0 down, Celtic roared back with goals from Yang, the Japanese midfielder and the Swedish striker.
Match Updates
The Birmingham side, concurrently, maintained a 2-0 lead over Young Boys with around five minutes left at Villa Park.
Malen's second goal there caused dramatic events in the away end, with Young Boys supporters confronting police. Scuffles broke out and objects thrown at both the officers and onto the pitch, with Malen himself being struck in the head by a plastic cup.
Team News: Nottingham Forest v Malmö
Forest: The goalkeeper, The defender, Milenkovic, Murillo, Morato, The midfielder, Sangare, The midfielder, McAtee, Hudson-Odoi, Kalimuendo.
Malmö FF: Ellborg, Stryger Larsen, Jansson, The defender, Rosler, Haksabanovic, Johnsen, Skogmar, The attacker, Gudjohnsen, Busanello.
Referee: Harm Osmers (from Germany)
Team News: Rangers v Braga
Rangers: The goalkeeper, Tavernier, Fernandez, Djiga, Aarons, Barron, Diomande, Raskin, Gassama, Danilo, Chermiti.
The Arsenalistas: The goalkeeper, Gomez, The center-back, Niakate, Arrey-Mbi, Zalazar, Moutinho, Gorby, Martinez, Navarro, The striker.
Match official: Allard Lindhout (Holland)
Match Background
The European clash and memories of 1979. The these sides have a special connection, also facing each other in Forest's previous European adventure in the UEFA Cup of 1995-96, but it is the continental championship decades past that entwines these two together, with the record-breaking signing Francis netting the decisive goal of a pretty miserable final to clinch eternal glory for the the English club.
"Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, unassuming and low-key amid all the colour and celebration, stood for a moment on a bench serenely viewing the mafficking," noted the journalist. Their achievement was an outstanding achievement that it is hard to see being repeated – from the lower league to European football in just three years."
It's also interesting to reflect upon Malmö, who became the first, and to date the last Scandinavian side to reach the final under English manager Bob Houghton.
The current fixture is a very different to that pinnacle, closer perhaps to the earlier European encounter between Forest and Malmö in the mid-nineties. Forest are full of confidence after defeating Liverpool convincingly at the famous ground on Saturday, while Malmö have been inactive since last month following the completion of Allsvenskan. The smart money is on the Forest tonight.
Plenty of other action on offer in this match tracking. Rangers have already been beaten by a European rival this season. Rangers are last place of the 36-team Europa League standings at the midpoint of the group stage with no points whatsoever. They badly want a victory if they are to have any hope of making a recovery for a qualification place.
We'll keep you up to date with all the evening matches and provide the most recent results from the previous games, including the Birmingham match and the Dutch-Scottish clash.
