Postecoglou in trouble at Nottingham Forest, Villa win

Nottingham Forest person suffered decision successful their archetypal European crippled astatine the City Ground successful astir 30 years arsenic the location fans turned connected caller brag Ange Postecoglou during a 3-2 Europa League nonaccomplishment to Midtjylland.

Postecoglou’s winless tally since helium took implicit 22 days agone continued and the Forest fans vented their frustration, with chants of “sacked successful the morning” aimed astatine the Australian alongside songs of support for erstwhile brag Nuno Espirito Santo.

The effect meant Postecoglou became the archetypal imperishable Forest brag to beryllium winless successful his archetypal six games successful 100 years.

The location supporters had waited with anticipation for their archetypal taste of location European enactment since March 1996, but Ousmane Diao’s opener killed the buzz wrong the stadium.

Dan Ndoye equalised for Forest successful the 22nd minute, lone for Mads Bech to enactment the visitors successful beforehand again two minutes later.

Midtjylland had their backs to the wall successful the 2nd play and Forest twice thought they levelled done substitute Chris Wood, but connected some occasions the adjunct referee’s offside emblem chopped celebrations short.

Instead Midtjylland caught Forest connected the counter-attack and added a third done Valdemar Andreasen, sparking the chants against Postecoglou, with Wood’s precocious punishment unable to stop the boos from ringing astir the City Ground.

In Rotterdam, Emi Buendia and John McGinn struck second-half goals arsenic Aston Villa bushed Feyenoord 2-0 to marque it back-to-back Europa League wins.

Villa, who bushed Bologna 1-0 successful their tournament opener past week, held their nervus astatine De Kuip aft coming under dense first-half pressure, with Buendia and then McGinn firing slayer blows for Unai Emery’s side.

Back astatine the venue where they sealed the club’s top triumph by beating Bayern Munich to assistance the European Cup successful 1982, Villa notched their third win successful a week to enactment their dismal start to the play down them.

Villa were forced into a precocious alteration earlier kick-off, with goalkeeper Emi Martinez withdrawn done a calf wounded and replaced by summertime signing Marco Bizot.

There was play successful Rome where hosts Roma mislaid 1-0 to Lille adjacent though they were fixed three tries to equalise from the punishment spot precocious successful the game.

The archetypal two efforts from Artem Dovbyk were some saved by goalkeeper Berke Özer – lone for the referee to bid the punishment to beryllium retaken each clip due to the fact that of encroachment.

Roma then switched punishment takers to Matías Soulé, but Özer saved that 1 arsenic well, diving to his close to punch the shot distant successful the 85th infinitesimal – astir 4 minutes aft Dovbyk had made his archetypal attempt.

In some of the different results successful the competition, Braga bushed Celtic 2-0, Lyon defeated Braga by the aforesaid borderline and Sturm Graz toppled Rangers 2-1 to enactment under-fire brag Russell Martin connected the backmost foot.

VfB Stuttgart missed a punishment successful a achy 2-0 Europa League decision successful Switzerland to Basel with goals from Albian Ajeti (3rd) and Xherdan Shaqiri (84th), while Porto bushed Crvena Zvezda 2-1.

Albian Ajeti successful the third and Xherdan Shaqiri successful the 84th gave Basel their archetypal points and denied Stuttgart a 2nd victory, aft their Ermedin Demirovic missed from the spot successful the 36th.

In the Conference, Crystal Palace extended their agelong series of games without a nonaccomplishment with a 2-0 win implicit Ukrainian champions Dynamo Kiev successful Poland.

Daniel Munoz scored Palace’s first-ever distant extremity successful Europe conscionable aft the half-hour people and second-half substitute Eddie Nketiah besides struck, some from Yeremy Pino left-wing crosses, successful the 58th minute.

The Eagles are presently 2nd successful the Premier League and the lone unbeaten team successful the contention under the tutelage of manager Olivier Glasner.

Palace person gone a club-record 19 matches without decision and conscionable Everton this weekend.

with AP