{"id":24706,"date":"2025-10-24T06:04:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:04:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=24706"},"modified":"2025-10-24T06:04:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T06:04:07","slug":"villa-shocked-by-go-ahead-eagles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=24706","title":{"rendered":"Villa shocked by Go Ahead Eagles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Aston Villa&#8217;s perfect Europa League start came undone in a shock 2-1 defeat to Go Ahead Eagles on Thursday as new Rangers boss Danny Rohl suffered a humbling 3-0 defeat to Brann in his first game in charge.<\/p>\n<p>Villa had backed up their status as pre-tournament favourites by beating Bologna and Feyenoord to get their European campaign off to a flying start.<\/p>\n<p>Despite Unai Emery making seven changes, the visitors in the Netherlands started strongly when Evann Guessand fired in his first Villa goal.<\/p>\n<p>However, in wild weather conditions, the home side secured a famous win in their first ever experience of group stage European football.<\/p>\n<p>Mathis Suray&#8217;s deflected shot levelled before half-time and Mats Deijl dinked over Emiliano Martinez to give the Dutch Cup winners the lead.<\/p>\n<p>Emi Buendia was Villa&#8217;s match-winner at Tottenham on Sunday, but the Argentine went from hero to villain as he missed a late penalty with the chance to snatch a draw.<\/p>\n<p>Rangers&#8217; hopes of making the latter stages are in tatters after a third consecutive Europa League defeat left them bottom of the 36-team table.<\/p>\n<p>A change of manager made no immediate impact on the Scottish giants, who lost to Norwegian opposition for the first time in their history.<\/p>\n<p>Emil Kornvig converted at the back post to give Brann a half-time lead.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Sorensen punished more poor defending to head in from a free-kick before Noah Holm rubbed salt in Rangers wounds.<\/p>\n<p>Sean Dyche is hoping to resurrect Nottingham Forest&#8217;s first European campaign for 30 years when he takes charge for the first time at home to Porto later.<\/p>\n<p>Forest, who sacked Ange Postecoglou after just 40 days and eight games in charge on Saturday, have taken just one point from their opening two matches.<\/p>\n<p>Celtic are also looking to kickstart a disappointing season so far when they host Sturm Graz.<\/p>\n<p>Lyon beat Basel 2-0 to continue their 100 percent record thanks to goals from Corentin Tolisso and Afonso Moreira.<\/p>\n<p>Braga are the only other side so far with three wins from three after they beat Red Star Belgrade 2-0.<\/p>\n<p>Bologna won 2-1 at Steaua Bucharest to register their first win in the league phase.<\/p>\n<p>Fenerbahce beat Stuttgart 1-0, while Real Betis were held 0-0 away at Genk.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aston Villa&#8217;s perfect Europa League start came undone in a shock 2-1 defeat to Go Ahead Eagles on Thursday as new Rangers boss Danny Rohl suffered a humbling 3-0 defeat to Brann in his first game in charge. Villa had backed up their status as pre-tournament favourites by beating Bologna and Feyenoord to get their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24706\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}