Bologna and Aston Villa have confirmed their beginning groups for his or her Europa League quarter-final first-leg assembly on the Renato Dall’Ara Stadium on Thursday.
Villa beat Lille 3-0 on mixture within the final 16. Bologna superior with a 4-3 second-leg win at Roma, going by way of 5-4 on mixture after an all-Italian epic.
The winners of the tie will face Porto or Nottingham Forest within the semi-finals. These groups additionally meet of their quarter-final first leg on the Estadio do Dragao on Thursday (20:00 BST).
101GreatGoals.com has the crew information and beginning line-ups as Bologna host Villa within the Europa League.
We meet once more 🤝
This time on Italian soil 🇮🇹 #UEL 🦁 pic.twitter.com/UC2GShdMkG
— Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) April 8, 2026
Bologna confirmed crew vs Villa
Bologna, who make three modifications, are with out injured goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski (hamstring) and winger Benja Dominguez (hip) and suspended defender Martin Vitik.
Tommaso Pobega, Torbjorn Heggem and Lewis Ferguson are the brand new faces of their line-up from their 2-1 win at Cremonese in Serie A on Saturday.
Federico Bernardeschi, Ferguson, Jhon Lucumi and coach Vincenzo Italiano are a reserving away from suspensions within the competitors.
Bologna beginning XI: Federico Ravaglia, Joao Mario, Torbjorn Heggem, Jhon Lucumi, Juan Miranda, Lewis Ferguson, Remo Freuler, Tommaso Pobega, Federico Bernardeschi, Santiago Castro, Jonathan Rowe
Bologna substitutes: Nikola Moro, Riccardo Orsolini, Nicolo Casale, Nadir Zortea, Jens Odgaard, Simon Sohm, Massimo Pessina, Nicolo Cambiaghi, Francesco Castaldo, Matteo Franceschelli
Aston Villa full line up vs Bologna
Villa make two modifications from their dwelling win over West Ham on March 22, bringing in Youri Tielemans and Emiliano Buendia.
Winger Jadon Sancho (shoulder) and midfielder Boubacar Kamara (knee) are sidelined.
Influential Tielemans made his comeback from an ankle harm in its place towards West Ham, Villa successful 4 of the 11 video games the Belgium worldwide missed.
Matty Money, Lucas Digne, John McGinn and Victor Lindelof should keep away from bookings to be eligible for the second leg.
Aston Villa beginning XI: Emiliano Martínez, Matty Money, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, John McGinn, Amadou Onana, Morgan Rogers, Youri Tielemans, Emiliano Buendia
Villa substitutes: Ollie Watkins, Victor Lindelöf, Tyrone Mings, Harvey Elliott, Andres Garcia, Tammy Abraham, Douglas Luiz, Ian Maatsen, Lamare Bogarde, Leon Bailey, Marco Bizot, James Wright,
The place to observe Bologna vs Villa: TV channel, dwell on-line streams
Kick-off on Thursday is at 20:00 BST (15:00 ET / 12:00 PT). Dwell TV protection within the UK is on TNT Sports activities 2 and the HBO Max app.
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Bologna vs Aston Villa stats
- Bologna have made essentially the most ball recoveries (501) on this season’s competitors of any crew within the quarter-finals
- Defender Juan Miranda has tried (72) and accomplished (22) essentially the most gamers of any participant within the 2025/26 Europa League
- With 94 crosses, Bologna have accomplished 14 greater than some other facet on this competitors and 35 greater than any crew not but eradicated
- The Serie A facet are winless of their 5 earlier European matches towards English groups (D1 L4)
- Their solely earlier two‑legged European tie towards an English membership was a 5–3 mixture defeat to Fulham within the 2002 Intertoto Cup closing
- Solely Nottingham Forest and Celta Vigo can match Bologna’s tally of 21 objectives on this season’s competitors. Villa have 17
- Villa have the best passing accuracy (87.2%) of any crew within the quarter-finals, with solely Lyon (88.9%), who went out within the final 16, attaining a greater determine on this season’s competitors
- The Premier League membership have had essentially the most possession (56.3%) of any crew nonetheless concerned on this season’s competitors
- They’ve misplaced all of their three earlier European away matches towards Italian golf equipment
- That is Villa’s first quarter‑closing within the Europa League period of the competitors, reaching this stage twice when it was referred to as the UEFA Cup with mixture defeats to Barcelona (4-3) in 1977/78 and Atletico Madrid (on the now-abolished away objectives rule) in 1997/98
- The Villans’ run of 13 wins of their final 15 continental matches (L2) – together with their present run of seven straight wins – is the longest successful streak of their European historical past
