Few others. Hello again. Welcome along to sportsday this evening. With the new Champions League Formatjust bedding in, tonights match at Villa Park is one that conjures up memories of what europes top Club Competition used to be. Its aston villas first Home Game since it was just called the European Cup, and villa had just won it. How fitting then that the team theyre up against tonight was the one they beat to lift the trophy in 1982 Bayern Munich. Players like captain dennis mortimer, nigel spink, and Goalscorer Peter Withe became heroes that night in rotterdam but now their modern counterparts take on a team that have had a blistering start to the season under new manager Vincent Kompany, and scored nine goals in theirfirst Champions League Match. So, lets head to Villa Park and speak to our correspondent nesta mcgregor. It could barely be a more significant set of circumstances tonight. Yes, sport is a funny way of throwing up these incredible narratives, doesnt it . More than four
Welcome to the programme. Lets start with the europa league, where west ham have comfortably beaten freiburg to reach the last eight of the competition. West ham were 2 0 up at half time, to take a 2 1 lead on aggregate in the tie, then went on to win 5 0 on the night Mohamed Kudus with a brace to help them on the way to the win. It means david moyes has led the team to a european quarterfinal for the third year in a row. Hugely pleased with the goals and the level of the performance and how well the players did tonight. We were really unhappy from the first game. All the staff, the players, we felt we shouldnt have come out with the result we had. We had to live with that and try and put it right and tonight we did. There were remarkable scenes as Bayer Leverkusen kept their unbeaten season alive late on to beat qarabag. The visitors were 2 0 up, 4 2 ahead on aggregate, but xabi alonso s side went on to win 3 2 on the night, thanks to two stoppage time goals from patrik schick. Elsewh
Then went on to win 5 0 on the night Mohamed Kudus with a brace to help them on the way to the win. It means david moyes has led the team to a european quarterfinal for the third year in a row. Hugely pleased with the goals and a level of the performance and how well the players did tonight. We were really unhappy from the first game. All the staff, the players, we felt we shouldnt have come out with the result we had. We had to live with that and try and put it right and tonight we did. There were remarkable scenes as Bayer Leverkusen kept their unbeaten season alive late on to beat qarabag. The visitors were 2 0 up, 4 2 ahead on aggregate, but xabi alonso s side went on to win 3 2 on the night, thanks to two stoppage time goals from patrik schick. Elsewhere, rangers are out after being beaten 1 0 on the night by benfica at ibrox. Liverpool are comfortably through, beating sparta 11 2 on aggregate. Brightons European Journey is over that 4 0 defeat in the first leg against roma too mu
To help them on the way to the win. It means david moyes has led the team to a European Quarter Finalfor the third year in a row. Hugely pleased with the goals and a level of the performance and a level of the performance and how well the players did tonight. We were really unhappy from the first game. All the staff, the players, we felt we shouldnt have come out with the result we had. We had to live with that and try and put it right and tonight we did. There were remarkable scenes as Bayer Leverkusen kept their unbeaten season alive late on to beat qarabag. The visitors were 2 0 up, 4 2 ahead on aggregate, but xabi alonso s side went on to win 3 2 on the night, thanks to two stoppage time goals from patrik schick. Elsewhere, rangers are out after being beaten 1 0 on the night by benfica at ibrox. Liverpool are comfortably through, beating sparta 11 2 on aggregate. Brightons European Journey is over that 4 0 defeat in the first leg against roma too much to overturn. Milan also throug