Europa League semifinals: Can Aston Villa overturn Nottingham Forest's first leg semifinal lead?
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Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa are both in the hunt for the Europa League trophy, and one of them is reaching the final, as the final four teams remain.
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Vitor Pereira's Forest beat Porto in the quarters while Unai Emery is the master in this competition and Aston Villa breezed past Bologna to reach the semifinals where the Midlands rivals are trading blows. Forest lead 1-0 after the first leg at home and head to Villa Park for what promised to be an epic second leg.
Sporting Braga from Portugal and SC Freiburg from Germany are both having great campaigns and saw off much-fancied Spanish sides Real Betis and Celta Vigo respectively in the quarterfinals, and Braga lead 2-1 on aggregate after winning at home in the first leg of their semifinal.
The journey will conclude May 20 in Turkiye for two teams seeking to win the UEFA Cup, and with it gain the prize of qualification to the UEFA Champions League for next season.
Full UEFA Europa League knockout phase fixtures
Europa League semifinal schedule
Thursday, April 30
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Aston Villa
Braga 2-1 Freiburg
Thursday, May 7
Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest - 3pm ET
Freiburg vs Braga - 3pm ET
Europa League Final —May 20 in Istanbul, Turkiye
Braga or Freiburg — vs — Nottingham Forest or Aston Villa
Full UEFA Europa League knockout phase results
Europa League knockout phase playoff round
First legs — February 19
Ludogorets Razgrad 2-1 Ferencvaros
Panathinaikos 2-2 Viktoria Plzen
Dinamo Zagreb 1-3 Genk
PAOK 1-2 Celta Vigo
Celtic 1-4 Stuttgart
Fenerbahce 0-3 Nottingham Forest
SK Brann 0-1 Bologna
Lille 0-1 Red Star Belgrade
Second legs February 26
Ferencvaros 2-0 (3-2 agg) Ludogorets Razgrad
Viktoria Plzen 1-1 aet (3-3 agg, 3-4 pens) Panathinaikos
Genk 3-3 aet (6-4 agg) Dinamo Zagreb
Celta Vigo 1-0 (3-1 agg) PAOK
Stuttgart 0-1 (4-2 agg) Celtic
Nottingham Forest 1-2 (4-2 agg) Fenerbahce
Bologna 1-0 (2-0 agg) SK Brann
Red Star Belgrade 0-2 (1-2 agg) Lille
Europa League Round of 16 results
First legs will be March 12, and second legs March 19
Thursday, March 12
Ferencvaros 2-0 Braga
Panathinaikos 1-0 Real Betis
Genk 1-0 Freiburg
Celta Vigo 1-1 Lyon
Stuttgart 1-2 Porto
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Midtjylland
Bologna 1-1 AS Roma
Lille 0-1 Aston Villa
Thursday, March 19
Braga 4-0 (4-2 agg) Ferencvaros
Real Betis 4-0 (4-1 agg) Panathinaikos
Freiburg 5-1 (5-2 agg) Genk
Lyon 0-2 (1-3 agg) Celta Vigo
Porto 2-0 (4-1 agg) Stuttgart
Midtjylland 1-2 aet (2-2 agg, 0-3 pens) Nottingham Forest
AS Roma 3-4 aet (4-5 agg) Bologna
Aston Villa 2-0 (3-0 agg) Lille
Europa League quarterfinals
Thursday, April 9
Braga 1-1 Real Betis
Freiburg 3-0 Celta Vigo
Porto 1-1 Nottingham Forest
Bologna 1-3 Aston Villa
Thursday, April 16
Celta Vigo 1-3 (1-6 agg) Freiburg
Real Betis 2-5 (3-5 agg) Braga
Nottingham Forest 1-0 (2-1 agg) Porto
Aston Villa 4-0 (7-1agg) Bologna