""This year I am positive, excited and motivated for the Europa League, but I know it's very difficult to win. "We need to try to be contenders for some trophies. In Europe, we were, but we lost in the semi-finals of the Conference League. "In the Champions League, we got through to the quarter-finals.""
""At home, I felt always here, three years since I arrived, that we were strong and confident. "[We] create a great atmosphere with energy, the players and supporters, and today I felt that.""
"Unbeaten in our last seven European games at Villa Park The Fortress stands strong pic.twitter.com/zGBCUBGnfS - Aston Villa (@AVFCOfficial) September 25, 2025"
Aston Villa secured a 1-0 Europa League opening win over Bologna courtesy of a first-half John McGinn goal. The victory provided the club's first win of the season after five Premier League matches without a win, leaving them 18th. Villa have now won opening games of major European campaigns in successive seasons for only the second time in their history, matching early 1980s European Cup runs. Unai Emery, a record four-time winner of the competition, expressed positivity and ambition for European contention. Villa remain unbeaten in seven European home matches at Villa Park. Ollie Watkins missed a second-half penalty and has struggled from the spot recently.
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