{"id":837056,"date":"2026-03-19T22:06:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:06:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/837056\/"},"modified":"2026-03-19T22:06:13","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T22:06:13","slug":"aston-villa-vs-lille-uefa-europa-league-stats-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/837056\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa vs Lille: UEFA Europa League stats & head-to-head"},"content":{"rendered":"
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    Aston Villa\u2019s only previous time hosting Lille in major European competition came in the 2023-24 UEFA Conference League, winning 2-1 in the first leg of a quarter-final tie; the Villans lost 2-1 in the second leg but did eventually progress on penalties.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Lille have never won on nine previous visits to England in major European competition (D1 L8), losing their last seven in a row since a 0-0 draw with Manchester United at Old Trafford in the 2005-06 UEFA Champions League group stage.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Aston Villa have won each of their last six UEFA Europa League games and the only English team to put together a longer winning streak in the competition are Chelsea between April 2013 and November 2018, an eight-match run which encompassed the 2012-13 final.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Lille have lost six games in the UEFA Europa League this season, their outright most defeats in a major European campaign \u2013 they have also lost three of their last four away matches, but did beat Crvena Zvezda 2-0 in the previous round.<\/p>\n<\/li>\n

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    Aston Villa\u2019s Ollie Watkins will be looking to score in back-to-back major European appearances for the first time since April 2024, when the second goal came against Lille in the UEFA Conference League; four of the Englishman\u2019s last five goals in Europe have come in the knockout stages, with Lille one of two sides he has netted more than once against (also AZ).<\/p>\n<\/li>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aston Villa\u2019s only previous time hosting Lille in major European competition came in the 2023-24 UEFA Conference League,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":837057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13,12,14],"class_list":{"0":"post-837056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-news","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-stories"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116258117076160774","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/837057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}