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Brilliant scenes of Aston Villa players celebrating with their friends and families, and with the fans who turned up in their thousands, as always. Means everything. Such a long wait for a European trophy, 44 years. Such a proud club, a great historic club, been building so promisingly under Euro-specialist Unai Emery. Few coaches prepare a team as well as Emery.

Villa deserved this trophy: so many good performances, Buendia, Lindelof, Rogers, Tielemans, McGinn, Watkins, all of them. Freiburg were modest opposition undoubtedly and couldn’t live with a vastly superior Villa. Nor with Austin MacPhee’s set-piece wizardry. Focus this summer for Villa is deepen the squad and attack the Champions League. Keep the momentum. Emery is building something very special at Villa. #FREAVL #AVFC

#freavl #avfc

Kevin Hatchard 🎙⚽️ 🤖 @[email protected] · 2026-05-20 · 20:52 UTC

Well done to #avfc. Started the season poorly, but rightly stuck by Emery and saw it through. A fifth #UEL trophy for the coach - absolutely amazing body of work.

#avfc #uel

quangobaud @[email protected] · 2026-05-20 · 18:06 UTC

Argh! Fook no! Aston Villa on t' radio! Off!

#Radio5Live #AVFC

#radio5live #avfc

Henry Winter 🤖 @[email protected] · 2026-05-20 · 07:30 UTC

Good luck to Aston Villa in Istanbul tonight. Just been asked on the radio whether Villa will win the Europa League final. Unai Emery and his staff will have done all their homework on Freiburg, analysed the strengths and weaknesses of Bundesliga’s seventh-placed club. Johan Manzambi is a box-to-box force. Vincenzo Grifo on the left can be a threat. Villa will respect Freiburg but not fear them. Emery is brilliant at preparing for challenges like this.

Emery has shown with Sevilla and Villarreal (does he live in a villa?) that he holds the map and compass for the Europa League journey, and now from the Bull Ring to Istanbul. He knows the way to glory. Emery also has John McGinn leading the way. Any team with a strong character like McGinn has a strong chance.

He’s 31, at his peak, a player who joined Villa in the Championship, fought hard to get them up, Rotherham away, down to 10 men, Mings off, Abraham missed pen, but a tough Scot drove them on to victory. “John McGinn was so good I thought there were two of him,” Dean Smith said. Villa back to fifth, play-offs, Wembley goal, promotion, Europe. McGinn deserves every accolade currently bestowed on him.

Youri Tielemans is a man for the big occasion. Any team with "Little Emi" Buendia and Morgan Rogers will have a supply line to goal, complemented by full-back forays of Lucas Digne and Matty Cash. Any attack with Ollie Watkins in this prolific vein of form (10 goals in 11 all comps) has a very good chance of chances being taken.

Any defence with Ezri Konsa has pace and composure, and a goalkeeper of great experience and belief in "Big Emi" Martinez. Villa have the players. They have the manager. They have the impassioned support. If Villa repeat the intensity that swept aside Nottingham Forest and Liverpool recently (McGinn scoring three times), Villa will win. #AVFC #UEL #UELfinal

#avfc #uel #uelfinal

Kevin Hatchard 🎙⚽️ 🤖 @[email protected] · 2026-05-19 · 09:47 UTC

Here’s my @[email protected] preview of the #uel final between Freiburg and #avfc https://betting.betfair.com/football/europa-league/europa-league-final-tips-freiburg-v-aston-villa-preview-best-bets-190526-140.html

#uel #avfc

Kevin Hatchard 🎙⚽️ 🤖 @[email protected] · 2026-05-18 · 21:47 UTC

Interesting thing to note about Freiburg for #avfc fans ahead of the #UEL final. Was digging through their season, and they lost all seven away games against the #Bundesliga’s top eight. Outside the Europa Park Stadion, they aren’t quite the same side.

#avfc #uel #bundesliga

Aston Villa @[email protected] · 2026-05-17 · 22:11 UTC

Women : Hanson, Kendall and D'Angelo up for WSL end of season awards
https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2026/may/17/women-Hanson--Kendall-and-DAngelo-up-for-WSL-end-of-season-awards/
#AVFC #UTV #Villains