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Dominant Aston Villa dispatched Freiburg 3-0\u00a0 to win the Europa League and end a 30-year trophy drought.<\/strong><\/p>\n First-half stunners from Youri Tielemans and Emi Buendia gave Villa control before Morgan Rogers\u2019 strike sealed a second major European title 44 years after they won the European Cup.<\/p>\n Nine of that team from 1982 were at Besiktas Park in Istanbul to watch Unai Emery win his fifth Europa League.<\/p>\n Emery replaced Steven Gerrard in November 2022 with Villa three points above the relegation zone and has transformed them into top five contenders and, now, a European champion.<\/p>\n Villa supporter Prince William celebrated at the final whistle as Villa won major silverware for the first time since the 1996 League Cup.<\/p>\n Noah Atubolu kept an early Morgan Rogers drive out and Nicolas Hofler \u2013 in his final game before retirement \u2013 fired wide, but then Villa took over.<\/p>\n Tielemans \u2013 who scored the winner for Leicester in the 2021 FA Cup final \u2013 brilliantly volleyed in to cap a short corner routine four minutes before the break.<\/p>\n Buendia added a stunning second in first-half stoppage time, curling beyond Atubolu from 18-yards to leave Bundesliga side Freiburg with no way back.<\/p>\n Rogers added a third just before the hour, poking in Buendia\u2019s near-post cross, to underline Villa\u2019s superiority.<\/p>\n Amadou Onana hit the post and Buendia should have netted a fourth but, by then, Villa had already sealed victory.<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n The post Aston Villa beat Freiburg to win Europa League<\/a> appeared first on KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" \u00a0 Dominant Aston Villa dispatched Freiburg 3-0\u00a0 to win the Europa League and end a 30-year trophy drought. First-half stunners from Youri Tielemans and Emi Buendia gave Villa control before Morgan Rogers\u2019 strike sealed a second major European title 44 years after they won the European Cup. Nine of that team from 1982 were at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141688\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}