Europa League
The Italian Job: From Yutsu and Yv to Tikinios and El Arabi
Olympiakos is called upon to overtake with Atalanta in Faliro 24/2, 19:45, Cosmote Sport 3 HD, Live by Sportish with audio description, like fifty years ago against Cagliari by Gigi Riva.
Olympiacos became the first Greek team to eliminate an Italian in knockout matches in a European tournament 50 years ago. Missing Cagliari, the Red-Whites scored two wins (2-1 in Karaiskakis and 1-0 in St Elias) in the UEFA Cup first round with Nikos Youtsos and Yv Triantafyllos.
In fact, Cagliari had won the championship two years earlier (1970) while having in its ranks the great Gigi Riva, who had celebrated with the Italian national team the victory at EURO 1968 and reached the final of the 1970 World Cup.
Youtsos scored in both Faliro and Sardinia, while Olympiacos’ second goal came from Triantaphyllos at home. Much water has flown into the moat since then, Olympiacos beating Napoli (1-0 in 1979), Juventus (2-1 in 2003 and 1-0 in 2014), Lazio (2-1 in 2007) and Milan (3-1 in 2018), but couldn’t rule out any of them in doubles.
Now the Red-Whites face the challenge hearing on behalf of Atalanta and the possibility of excluding an Italian team in the same organization for the second time, knowing that the Europa League is the continuation of the UEFA Cup .
Soares from Ticino made his debut in the first game with a goal in Bergamo and the Brazilian center forward, together with Youssef El Arabi, has the opportunity to play in Karaiskaki on Thursday (24/2, 19:45, Cosmote Sport 3 HD, Sportish live audio description), was Nikos Youtsos (2′) with Yv Triantaphyllos (51′) half a century ago.
The 2:1 of this game in front of 40,000 red-white fans (Domegini had reduced the result to 66 minutes) will send the game into overtime if it happens again. The same applies to 1-0, since the away goal is no longer valid. Olympiacos will want a 2-0 win or a two-goal difference to qualify but Martins and the players need to be prepared for the possibility of extra time.
Exceed and record
In any case, the red-whites should neither give way to Bergamaski, who are very dangerous in open play and on the counterattack, nor make mistakes in the static phases of the first leg. In games like this, the slightest mistake costs money.
Olympiacos has a tough task considering that in the last three years Atalanta have only managed to beat Paris Saint-Germain (last year’s Champions League quarter-finals) and Real Madrid (last year’s Champions League quarter-finals) in the round of 16 of a European tournament. was eliminated in the 16th year of the Champions League).
Essentially, the Piraeus team are chasing the excess and if they succeed they will set a record as will be for the third straight season in the 16 of the Europa League.
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english team Aston VillaThe player continues to show incredible form and has already won his 10th consecutive victory in different tournaments.
The successful series includes 7 Premier League matches and 3 Europa League matches. This is a new club record for Aston Villa.
The last win came on 21 December, when the home team beat Manchester United 2-1 at Villa Park in Birmingham.
This winning streak has allowed Aston Villa to secure a place in the top 3 (36 points) of the Premier League standings, ahead of Arsenal (39) and Man City (37).
In the Europa League, Unai Emery’s team safely passed the league stage and entered the top 3 together with Lyon and Mittjylland (15 points out of 18).
Aston Villa’s 10-match winning streak
- 21.12. 19:30. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Manchester United – 2:1
- 14.12. 16:00. nuclear submarine West Ham – Aston Villa – 2:3
- 11.12. 22:00. LE. Basel-Aston Villa-1:2
- 06.12. 14:30. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Arsenal – 2:1
- 03.12. 21:30. nuclear submarine Brighton – Aston Villa – 3:4
- 30.11. 16:05. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Wolverhampton – 1:0
- 27.11. 19:45. LE. Aston Villa – Young Men – 2:1
- 23.11. 16:00. nuclear submarine Leeds – Aston Villa – 1:2
- 09.11. 16:00. nuclear submarine Aston Villa – Bournemouth – 4:0
- 06.11. 22:00. LE. Aston Villa – Maccabi Tel Aviv – 2:0
Aston Villa’s winning streak in the 2025/26 season
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Ukrainian defender Nottingham Forest Alexander Zinchenko He shared his feelings after his team beat Utrecht (2:1) in the main round of the Europa League.
“It’s a great feeling. First of all, I’m back. Secondly, it’s an incredible feeling to win a match. Getting three points today was very important for us. As you can see, it was a difficult match. But at the end of the match, I think we got what we wanted and let’s continue like that.”
“As a defender you always want to keep a clean sheet, but unfortunately we couldn’t do that today. So it’s something we need to work on in the future.”
“This is one of those matches where whoever wins the most challenges in different areas of the field will win the match. Today we won many more goals which helped us a lot in the game. But to be honest, even the opportunities we created, including me, we should have scored and finished this match earlier,” said Zinchenko.
Nottingham Forest is in 11th place in the rankings with 11 points after 6 matches in the Europa League this season.
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sports doctor Dmitry Babelyuk He was not happy with the decision made by Sean Dyche, the head coach of English Nottingham, in the match against Dutch Utrecht in the Europa League (2-1).
The Foresters’ coach has given Ukraine national team defender Alexander Zinchenko a place in the starting squad after the player missed nine matches due to injury.
“These old-school coaches never cease to amaze. In 2025, with the advancement of sports science and medicine, I don’t understand how it is possible to release a player from the winger position for a full 90 minutes at the same time after two muscle injuries.
First, Moyes did this to Mikolenko, which led to Vitaly’s relapse. Now Dyche makes the same obvious mistakes.
Understanding that Zinchenko is a player who has regularly suffered from muscle problems in recent seasons; injured twice at Nottingham in the last three months; Having not played for the last six weeks, I cannot imagine how anyone could be so negligent in getting a player into top playing form.
This is not often seen in the new generation of coaches such as Thomas Frank or Enzo Mareschi, but the old ones continue to rely on their own emotions, leaving players in danger of unnecessary relapses.
I hope everything goes well for Sasha and he returns to his best form, but playing 90 minutes at a time after two months of treatment is outright stupidity in modern football at the top level,” Babelyuk raged.
Source: Sport UA
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