Dutch striker “Donyell Malen” led his team “Aston Villa” of England to continue their strong performances, in a match marred by violence in the stands, by scoring the two winning goals against Swiss team “Young Boys” with a score of (2-1), in the fifth round of the group stage of the European League “Europa League”.
“Malen” scored “Villa’s” goals in the first half (27 and 42), giving his team the advantage, before “Joel Monteiro” narrowed the gap for the visitors in the 90th minute.
With this victory, “Aston Villa” raised its score to 12 points, occupying third place in the European League standings, with a goal difference from the leading French team “Lyon”, and the runner-up Danish team “Midtjylland”, while “Young Boys” froze at 6 points in twenty-sixth place.
The match witnessed great tension after “Villa’s” second goal, as “Young Boys” fans clashed with the English police, which led to the match being stopped for a short period, before the team’s Danish captain, “Loris Benito,” intervened to direct the fans to calm down.
Roma and Midtjylland
At the Stadio Olimpico in Rome, “Midtjylland” suffered its first defeat in the competition this season, falling against the wolves of the capital with a score of (2-1), raising the latter’s score to 9 points in 15th place.
Moroccan star “Nael Al-Ainawi” and Italian “Stephan El Shaarawy” scored “Roma’s” goals (7 and 83), while “Paulinho” narrowed the gap for the visitors (86).
In another match, Scottish “Celtic” achieved an important victory over their host, Dutch “Feyenoord” (3-1).
“Feyenoord” advanced with a goal from Japanese “Ayase Ueda” (11), but “Celtic” responded with a hat-trick through “Hyun-Jun Yang” (31), “Rio Hatate” (43), and “Benjamin Njgreen” (82).
“Celtic” raised its score to 7 points, while “Feyenoord” continued to struggle, with only one victory in five matches.
Also in the European League, Portuguese “Porto” won against French “Nice” 3-0, Bulgarian “Ludogorets” against Spanish “Celta Vigo” 3-2, and French “Lille” against Croatian “Dinamo Zagreb” 4-0.
German “Freiburg” drew with Czech “Viktoria Plzen” without goals, Norwegian “Bran Bergen” with Greek “PAOK” 1-1, and Turkish “Fenerbahce” with Hungarian “Ferencváros” with the same result, while German “Stuttgart” won against Dutch “Go Ahead Eagles” 4-0, and Spanish “Real Betis” against Dutch “Utrecht” 2-1.
Lyon leads
French “Lyon” snatched the lead in the European League standings with 12 points, after its crushing victory over its host “Maccabi Tel Aviv” from the Zionist entity with a score of (6-0), in a match held in Serbia.
“Lyon” owes its victory to a hat-trick from its French star “Corentin Tolisso” (25, 51 and 54), while Brazilian “Abner” (4), Senegalese “Moussa Niakhaté” (35 from a penalty kick), and Czech “Adam Karabec” (62) added the rest of the goals.
