Brazilian coach Zico will take charge of 2004/05 UEFA Cup winners PFC CSKA Moskva for the first time when they travel to Birmingham for the first leg of their Round of 32 tie against former European champions Aston Villa FC. 48 mins: Trezeguet with another needless foul, clipping Jonny Evans as the defender skips past him. Villa are up to second, and have won their first four league games for the first time in 90 years! Aston Villa FC have signed midfielder Fabian Delph from third-tier Leeds United AFC, paying an undisclosed fee for the 19-year-old who caught the eye with the Yorkshire club last term. Villa ending the second half well, after a stodgy start. 42 mins: The free kick is five yards to the right of goal, 20 yards out. Tielemans’ delivery is dangerous, ricocheting to Perez who takes his time getting it out from under his feet. Two in-form teams meet this week as FC Metalist Kharkiv host Olympiacos CFP, but with the race for the UEFA Cup Round of 32 hotting up the likes of the VfL Wolfsburg-Portsmouth FC fixture may well provide similar intrigue. Şenol Güneş helped Trabzonspor AŞ beat Liverpool FC as a player and hopes to do the same again at the helm of the Turkish club as UEFA.com rounds up the reaction to the play-off draw. He tries to play a one-two, but the fiddly training-ground routine unravels pretty quickly. Having had another look, Schmeichel is beaten by the sheer pace of the shot, and perhaps unsighted by Evans. Here’s Ross Barkley: “We started a bit slow, but got a bit of momentum in the second half and I think the win was deserved. From Grealish’s corner, Esri Konsa gets away from Justin and connects with a header - but sends it a foot wide of the post! CBS Sports is a registered trademark of CBS Broadcasting Inc. Commissioner.com is a registered trademark of CBS Interactive Inc. site: media | arena: soccer | pageType: stories | Mings does really well to keep it alive down by the opposite corner flag, and finds Grealish. Leicester begin the second half. Who do you think will come out on top? 38 mins: Cash’s hopeful long ball is chased down by Watkins, who lofts the ball back across goal towards Barkley. Hamza Choudhury is on for Leicester, replacing Nampalys Mendy. Trade Talk! 1 from the city of Liverpool ... that wear blue The visitors have been on top since the restart, but Watkins needs some help up front. An excellent half-time email from David Wall: “Will players get fed up of taking a knee, yet nothing actually happening as a result? First published on Sun 18 Oct 2020 18.15 BST. Proof that for last-gasp excitement, you can’t beat the Barkleys. His cross is cleared by Justin. SK Slavia Praha 0-1 Aston Villa FCJohn Carew's first-half deflection proved enough to earn the visitors three points but only after weathering a second-half storm from the Czech side. Premier League standings, table: Everton and Aston Villa remain perfect and ahead of Liverpool and Arsenal ... fifth place heads to 2021-22 Europa League, and … Click here to have your say. James Maddison is coming on, hoping to boost this game’s End Product quota. Djibril Cissé is embarking on a new career, Marek Hamšík is closing in on Diego Maradona, and Europe is sharing in Cameroon's joy; UEFA.com guts the week. In the first half, I played as the 10 but I dropped a bit deeper in the second half and it worked.”. Premier League outfit Aston Villa FC have strengthened their defence with the signing of 31-year-old Sengalese international Habib Beye from Newcastle United FC for an undisclosed fee. “For the Premier League, Richard Masters could start sorting this out with the stroke of a pen, putting forward a requirement for clubs to reach specific targets for boardroom diversity within 5 and then 10 years as conditions of entry to the Premier League (say, so that representation in the boardroom matches the degree of diversity among players). 70 mins: Villa starting to look the likelier team to score, with Watkins finding a yard of space, but only briefly as his shot is closed down. Watkins they do?” asks Peter Oh. Time to leave you with Paul Doyle’s report, rewritten at impressive speed. FC Shakhtar Donetsk will return to Turkey, the scene of their 2009 UEFA Cup triumph over Werder Bremen, to take on Sivasspor in the UEFA Europa League play-offs following Friday's draw in Nyon. Bertrand Traore is Villa’s first sub - he replaces Trezeguet. 92 mins: As Dave Manby points out via email, we’ve still had no goalless draw in the Premier League since 20 July. Sometimes the best things in life really are free. FC Porto and PSV Eindhoven are among six former European champions preparing to enter the UEFA Europa League fray when the play-off round draw takes place in Nyon today. 35 mins: Barkley is forced to go backwards by Leicester’s press, but hooks a nice ball out wide to Grealish, who is fouled by Castagne. The UEFA word, the UEFA logo and all marks related to UEFA competitions, are protected by trademarks and/or copyright of UEFA. 49 mins: Grealish, the only player who’s looked anything close to ‘box office’, finds Targett with a slipped through ball, collects the return and wins a corner which Evans clears under pressure from Konsa. Rodgers now has to manage his squad through a rough patch of injuries and upcoming Europa League commitments. BV Borussia Dortmund and FC Porto have a foot in the group stage draw after first-leg wins but for other famous names the outlook is less rosy ahead of the play-off deciders. It’s the Algerian’s first Leicester appearance since January 2018. This time it’s Castagne who hacks at him above sock height. 44 mins: A reminder that these sides have collectively beaten the league’s two best teams by an aggregate score of 12-4 this season. 62 mins: Cash floats a dangerous cross towards Watkins, but Fofana is there again to head emphatically away ... “These puns need to have some Konsa-quences,” says Zain Dada. 41 mins: Another yellow card! All matches on NBC and NBC Sports Network can be streamed via fuboTV (Try for free). European hopes will be on the line on Matchday 4 this week as the sides targeting UEFA Cup honours aim to join AC Milan, Manchester City FC, AS Saint-Etienne and PFC CSKA Moskva in the knockout phase. VfL Wolfsburg, SC Braga, Valencia CF, Aston Villa FC, AFC Ajax and Hamburger SV advanced to the UEFA Cup Round of 32 after Matchday 4 results went their way on Thursday, but the party is over for five clubs. Attention turns back to European club competition tonight as the UEFA Cup Round of 32 gets under way with AC Milan's game at Werder Bremen one of the mouthwatering contests which herald the spring campaign. A draw at home against MŠK Žilina will be enough to confirm Aston Villa FC's passage to the Round of 32 while the Slovakian side need a win and a few favours on Matchday 5 if they are to make the same journey. Hamburger SV 3-1 Aston Villa FCMladen Petrić and Ivica Olić shared three goals between them as Martin Jol's men guaranteed themselves top spot in UEFA Cup Group F. The UEFA Cup group stage concludes tonight and tomorrow with European titans FC Schalke 04, Olympiacos CFP, Sevilla FC and Tottenham Hotspur FC yet to confirm their passage to Friday's draw for the Round of 32. Can he get it on Targett? © 2020 Guardian News & Media Limited or its affiliated companies. 80 mins: Maddison is brought down by Douglas Luiz, who needs to be careful. I’ll show myself out” says John Peeler. Ross Barkley has won the game for Villa! Which makes his game-winning effort even more impressive. Thanks for joining me. He finds a pocket of space here, but is let down by Tieleman’s pass, which is hit really hard for no good reason. He dances through an impossible gap in the Leicester defence, but his prodded pass doesn’t quite fall for Barkley, whose eventual shot is a little desperate. High-flying Aston Villa FC have bolstered their squad by signing England striker Emile Heskey from Wigan Athletic FC for €3.7m but will be without captain Martin Laursen for the next eight weeks following knee surgery. Aston Villa FC 1-1 PFC CSKA MoskvaA second-half John Carew goal pegged back the visitors in Birmingham, yet the dominant home side may live to regret a litany of missed opportunities. 63 mins: ... Leicester break, and Justin forces Cash to haul him down on the edge of the box. Indeed, it was not so long ago we turned to puns as the game drifted towards a goalless draw. Michael Ballack's Bayer 04 Leverkusen return went well and Mario Balotelli struck on his Manchester City FC debut as some notable sides took big strides towards the group stage. For a look at the complete fixture list, click here. Villa had other ideas though, and their winner means every game today saw late drama. The top four positions will head directly to the UEFA Champions League in 2021-22, fifth place heads to 2021-22 Europa League, and 18th, 19th and 20th places are relegated to EFL Championship. On his goal: “I saw the goal, the space opened up and I thought I’d have a pop,” he says with a wry smile. At this moment in time, a red card feels more likely than a goal. 78 mins: Barnes twists, turns and fires over from 20 yards. With the last gasp win at Leicester City, Aston Villa have now won all four games at the start of the new Premier League season.It is the first time that Aston Villa have achieved this for 90 years. 65 mins: Signs that the game might be opening up as Villa get in behind, thanks to Grealish’s through ball to McGinn. As the UEFA Cup resumes with the Round of 32, uefa.com takes its pick of ten players likely to catch the eye, including Olympiacos CFP sensation Diogo Luis Santo and €30m man Danny at holders FC Zenit St. Petersburg.
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