Aston Villa and Lille have confirmed their beginning groups for his or her assembly at Villa Park within the second leg of the 2025/26 Europa League spherical of 16.
Ollie Watkins’ second-half winner has given the Premier League facet a 1-0 result in shield in pursuit of a quarter-final towards Roma or Bologna.
The Italian sides meet once more in Rome on Thursday (20:00 GMT), having drawn the primary leg of their tie 1-1.
101GreatGoals.com has the line-up information from Villa vs Lille within the Europa League, in addition to particulars on how one can watch.
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Aston Villa confirmed beginning group vs Lille
Proper-back Matty Money (calf) and midfielders Boubacar Kamara (knee) and Youri Tielemans (ankle) are out, as are wingers Emiliano Buendia and Harvey Elliott with knocks. Ross Barkley is ineligible.
Aston Villa beginning XI: Martinez, Bogarde, Lindelof, Pau, Maatsen, Luiz, Onana, McGinn, Rogers, Sancho, Abraham
Villa substitutes: Bizot, Wright, Mings, Konsa, Digne, Money, Garcia, Elliott, Buendia, Bailey, Watkins
Lille full line up vs Villa
Defender Ousmane Toure and striker Hamza Igamane have knee accidents. Wingers Ethan Mbappe (thigh) and Osame Sahraoui (groin) and goalkeeper Marc-Aurele Caillard (elbow) are additionally sidelined.
Lille beginning XI: Ozer, Ngoy, Alexsandro, Mbemba, Perraud, Bouaddi, Bentaleb, Mukau, Meunier, Giroud, Correia
Lille substitutes: Bodart, Lanssade, Fernandez-Pardo, Haraldsson, Edjouma, Santos, Mandi, Verdonk, Diaoune, Baret, Boussadia
The place to look at Villa vs Lille: TV channel, dwell on-line streams
Kick-off on Thursday is at 20:00 GMT (15:00 ET / 12:00 PT). Within the UK, dwell protection is on TNT Sports activities 1, TNT Sports activities Final and the Discovery Plus app.
TNT Sports activities prices £30.99 a month, together with Eurosport and leisure and out there on an unlimited vary of units together with sensible TVs and gaming consoles.
From March 26, TNT Sports activities streaming will swap from Discovery Plus to HBO Max.
Aston Villa v Lille stats
- These groups have met in two earlier ties throughout 4 matches: Lille gained their 2002 Intertoto Cup semi‑ultimate 3-1 on mixture, whereas Villa progressed from the 2023/24 Europa Convention League quarter‑finals after a 3-3 mixture draw and penalty shoot‑out victory
- Villa have gained three of their 5 earlier two-legged ties towards French groups and 4 of their 5 earlier residence matches towards French golf equipment (L1)
- The Villans have gained 15 of their final 17 European residence matches (D1 L1), together with every of the final seven.
- They’re aiming to succeed in a European quarter-final for a 3rd consecutive season, having crushed Ajax 4-0 on mixture within the 2023/24 Convention League spherical of 16 and Membership Brugge 6-1 on mixture in final season’s Champions League spherical of 16
- In two earlier two‑legged European ties during which they’ve gained the primary leg away by a one‑aim margin, Aston Villa have progressed as soon as and exited as soon as
- Lille have misplaced 9 of their final 11 matches towards English groups (W1 D1) and 6 of their final 9 Europa League matches total (W3)
- Their final 4 two-legged ties towards English opposition have been unsuccessful
- That is Lille’s first Europa League spherical of 16 look because the 2009/10 marketing campaign, once they misplaced 3-1 on mixture to Liverpool
- Les Dogues have superior from 5 of their final seven two-legged European ties.
- They’ve gained one and misplaced 4 of their 5 earlier two‑legged European ties after shedding the primary leg at residence by a one‑aim margin, with the only success coming this season towards Crvena Zvezda within the Europa League knockout play-off spherical, overturning a 1-0 defeat with a 2-0 extra‑time win
