Overview
- Aston Villa visit Stadio Renato Dall’Ara on Thursday for the first leg at 20:00 BST in the UEFA Europa League quarterfinals.
- Official lineups name Villa’s Emiliano Martínez, Amadou Onana, Emiliano Buendía, John McGinn, Youri Tielemans and Ollie Watkins, with Bologna starting Federico Ravaglia, Jhon Lucumí, Juan Miranda, Federico Bernardeschi, Jonathan Rowe and Santiago Castro.
- Unai Emery’s side arrives on a seven-game Europa League winning run, while Bologna is 11 matches unbeaten in Europe with its only loss this season coming at Villa Park.
- Team news confirms Jadon Sancho and Boubacar Kamara are out for Villa, Ross Barkley is not registered for this competition, and Bologna remains without first-choice goalkeeper Łukasz Skorupski as Juan Miranda returns from a ban.
- The match is live in the UK on TNT Sports 2 with streaming on HBO Max/Discovery+, and in the US on Paramount+ with Spanish-language options including ViX and TUDN.