{"id":493645,"date":"2026-05-20T06:04:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/493645\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T06:04:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T06:04:13","slug":"team-news-team-news-freiburg-vs-aston-villa-injury-suspension-list-predicted-xis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/493645\/","title":{"rendered":"Team News: Team News: Freiburg vs. Aston Villa injury, suspension list, predicted XIs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Set to meet in Istanbul for this year&#8217;s Europa League Final, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/freiburg\/\" title=\"Freiburg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Freiburg<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/aston-villa\/\" title=\"Aston Villa\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aston Villa<\/a> will fight it out for the trophy on Wednesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>Having both hit their last domestic opponents for four &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsmole.co.uk\/football\/premier-league\/aston-villa-vs-liverpool_game_247833.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><strong>with Villa taking down outgoing Premier League champions Liverpool<\/strong><\/a> &#8211; the pair are primed for a winner-takes-all clash in the Turkish capital.<\/p>\n<p>Here,\u00a0<strong>Sports Mole<\/strong>\u00a0rounds up all the team news for either side.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0FREIBURG<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out:\u00a0<\/strong>Yuito Suzuki (collarbone)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doubtful: <\/strong>Patrick Osterhage (knee)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sports Mole&#8217;s predicted XI:\u00a0<\/strong>Atubolu; Kubler, Ginter, Lienhart, Treu; Eggestein, Hofler; Beste, Manzambi, Grifo; Matanovic<\/p>\n<p>ASTON VILLA<\/p>\n<p><strong>Out: <\/strong>Boubacar Kamara (knee), Alysson (ineligible), Ross Barkley (ineligible)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Doubtful: <\/strong>Amadou Onana (calf), Victor Lindelof (foot)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sports Mole&#8217;s predicted XI:\u00a0<\/strong>Martinez; Cash, Konsa, Torres, Digne; Lindelof, Tielemans; McGinn, Rogers, Buendia; Watkins<\/p>\n<p>\nVote in the 2025-26 Sports Mole Readers&#8217; Awards!<\/p>\n<p>Cast your votes for the 2025-26 Sports Mole Reader Awards&#8217; below &#8211; pick your Premier League player of the season, worst signing of the season, European player of the season and more.<\/p>\n<p>Voting will be open until <strong>11pm on<\/strong> <strong>Sunday, May 24<\/strong>, and the winners will be announced on <strong>Monday, May 25<\/strong>!<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Set to meet in Istanbul for this year&#8217;s Europa League Final, Freiburg and Aston Villa will fight it&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493646,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[3],"tags":[9,10,2529,18,2531,13,14,22,2524,2527,6,19,17,11,12,15,16,5,2530,2528,795,2525,119,2533,2532,2526,7,8],"class_list":["post-493645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-breaking-news","tag-breakingnews","tag-cycling","tag-eire","tag-epl","tag-featured-news","tag-featurednews","tag-football","tag-formula-1","tag-golf","tag-headlines","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news","tag-latestnews","tag-main-news","tag-mainnews","tag-news","tag-nfl","tag-olympics","tag-premier-league","tag-rugby","tag-sport","tag-sports-mole","tag-teams","tag-tennis","tag-top-stories","tag-topstories"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116605397653852738","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493645\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493646"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}