Aston Villa will be favourites to progress to the Champions League quarter-finals after scoring two late goals to beat Club Brugge in Belgium. Leon Bailey had given the Premier League club a lightning start in the last-16 first-leg tie - Villa's first knockout tie in European football's premier competition since the 1982-83 quarter-finals.
Gareth Taylor’s team welcome Aston Villa at our Joie Stadium home on Sunday 9 March with kick off at 12:30 (UK).
Everton produce a clinical performance to beat Aston Villa 2-0 and condemn their hosts to a fourth successive league defeat.
Brentford will host Aston Villa tomorrow as they look to earn their first home win of 2025, then on Sunday the Gunners will travel to the “Theatre of Dreams” to face Man United, hoping to get their title dreams back on track with a victory.
It was another defeat for Chelsea on the road in the Premier League as Aston Villa completed a comeback to claim a 2-1 win at Villa Park on Saturday night.
Former Belgium international Stijn Stijnen is of the view that Aston Villa star Youri Tielemans needs to work on his defensive game during transitions to become world-class. The 27-year-old midfielder joined Aston Villa in 2023 from Leicester City and since arriving at Villa Park, he has been a key part of Unai Emery’s starting line-up.
Unai Emery is hopeful that an easing injury list will allow Aston Villa to enjoy a run of form similar to the back end of 2022/23 when the club clinched their return to European football.
Aston Villa could join Liverpool and Crystal Palace in the race for Wolfsburg's Greece centre-back Konstantinos Koulierakis, 21. (Caught Offside)