Aston Villa 2-1 Young Boys Highlights, UEFA Europa League: Malen Brace Seals Home Win For Villans

Hello, football fans! This is the start of our live blog covering Aston Villa’s clash against Swiss side Young Boys in Birmingham. Stay tuned for pre-match updates and line-ups as they are released.

• Fixture: Aston Villa vs Young Boys, Matchday 5

• Venue: Villa Park, Birmingham

• Date: Thursday, November 27, 2025

• Time: 11:15 PM IST

• Live Streaming/Telecast: -

Aston Villa and Young Boys have met just once in UEFA competitions, with the English Premier League winning that. The only time they met was in the UEFA Champions League 2024-25 season, with the Villans winning 3-0 in Switzerland in Matchday 1.

Starting XI: Emiliano Martinez; Lamare Bogarde, Victor Lindelof, Pau Torres, Ian Maatsen; Morgan Rogers, Amadou Onana, Youri Tielemans (c), Evann Guessand; Donyell Malen, Jadon Sancho.

Bench: Marco Bizot (gk), Rhys Oakley (gk), Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Andres Garcia, Lucas Digne, Emiliano Buendia, Ross Barkley, Boubacar Kamara, John McGinn, Harvey Elliott, Ollie Watkins.

Starting XI: Marvin Keller; Saidy Janko, Tanguy Zoukrou, Loris Benito (c), Jaouen Hadjam; Rayan Raveloson, Sandro Lauper; Darian Males, Doiminik Pech, Christian Fassnacht; Sergio Cordova.

Bench: Dario Marzino (gk), Heinz Linder (gk), Rhodri Smith, Gregory Wuthrich, Ryan Andrews, Joel Monteir, Alvyn Sanches, Elio Rufener, Felix Tsimba, Janis Luthi, Alan Virginius, Chris Bedia.

The referee blows his whistle, and the match is underway at Villa Park! Can the hosts live up to their favourites tag and see off their Swiss opponents? Stay tuned!

The first shot on target of the game, and Malen had Keller at full stretch to tip behind the cracking effort from outside the box. Villa cotinue to push forward, and Guessand almost headed his side ahead, but the ball was just over the bar.

Aston Villa have pretty much dominated proceedings at their home so far, with six shots and three of them on Keller's goal. The visitors have a rare forway into the Villa box through Raveloson, but his tame shot is saved easily by Martinez.

Aston Villa's immense attacking pressure finally bears fruit as Malen puts his side ahead before the half-hour mark. Minutes after missing a huge chance, the Dutchman heads his side ahead after connecting with a peach of a cross from Tielemans.

Malen doubles his tally, and Villa go two goals up right before the break! Rogers set-up his strike partner with an exquisite through pass, and Malen got past the Young Boys defenders to beat Keller with a composed finish to find the bottom corner.

The referee half gets uderway at Villa Park, with no changes at the break for either side. The hosts completely dominated the first half, with Malen's brace putting them 2-0 ahead. Can they add more goals to their tally? Stay tuned!

It has been slightly better from Young Boys in the second half. Sancho had the first real five minutes after the break, seeing his first-time snap-shot bringing out a decent save from Keller.

The Swiss side, however, have continued to threaten in phases, with Fassnacht dragging his shot from outside the box just wide of Martinez's goal.

What an inspired substitution from Gerardo Seoane!! Chris Bedia, who came on a few seconds ago, scores with his first touch of the football! Virginius showed incredible vision to find the Ivorian, who poked it past Martinez from point-blank range. The deficit is halved, and it's game on!!

Goal overrulled!! Nothing is going Young Boys' way tonight, and Bedia's goal is overrulled as VAR highlighted an offside during the build-up. Villa's two-goal lead is restored.

With just 10 minutes of normal time left to play, Villa make a change. Onana's night has come to an end, and he is replaced by Kamara.

The hosts have put their foot off the pedal ahead of the Premier League match against Wolves in the weekend. Can Young Boys pull one back to make this interesting?

Young Boys finally pull one back in injury time through Joel Monteiro!! Completely against the run of play, Wuthrich played a long ball towards Monteiro. The Swiss forward chested the ball down and let fly from outside the box whcih flew past Martinez.