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Full-time: Rangers 1-1 Braga
Boos at Ibrox. That is a very poor result for Danny Röhl. Rangers will be kicking themselves that they didn’t manage to win the game, after being 1-0 up against 10 men at home.
RED CARD! Rangers Diomande sent off against Braga!
It’s very harsh on the Rangers midfielder, who is penalised for a stray arm to the face of Braga’s El Ouazzani in stoppage time. Ten men against 10.
Full-time: Nottingham Forest 3-0 Malmö
That is about as straightforward as it gets in Europe. Sean Dyche will be delighted. Forest up to eight points and the safety of mid-table.
Rangers 1-1 Braga
90 min: Ten-man Braga so nearly snatch a winner at Ibrox! Once again, some embarrassing defending from Djiga gifts a corner to Braga. The wind is absolutely howling in Glasgow and Horta curls a delivery right under the Rangers bar. Butland flaps unconvincingly, Tavernier effectively has to head the ball off the line and Gorby has a chance to shoot from the penalty spot, but Butland palms the effort away. It’s remarkable that Rangers are not winning this, given how poor 10-man Braga have played. But the Portuguese side nearly won it there at the death.
GOAL! Go Ahead Eagles 0-4 Stuttgart (Bouanani 90)
Bouanani seals the win for Stuttgart. Bilal El Khannouss has really impressed since his loan move from Leicester and the 21-year-old got the third for Stuttgart.
Rangers 1-1 Braga
81 min: The onus is all on Rangers to get the winner against 10 men. Braga are content to defend deep and see this out. Rangers don’t look particularly dangerous, save for Gassama on their left wing. Diomande is unlucky to slip just before he shoots. Groans from the Ibrox crowd.
Nottingham Forest 3-0 Malmo
78 min: When you are 3-0 up, there isn’t a lot that can go wrong. Apart from injuries of course. It’s not clear if Murillo and James McAtee are indeed injured, but both winced shortly before coming off. Teenager Jimmy Sinclair replaces McAtee to make his senior debut for Forest.
GOAL! Bologna 3-1 RB Salzburg (Bernardeschi)
Catching up with a few more goals around the continent. It was previously all square at 1-1 between Bologna and RB Salzburg but two quickfire second-half goals from the Italian side mean they look likely to take the three points. Federico Bernardeschi with the latest goal – the 31-year-old was released by MLS side Toronto FC in the summer.
GOAL! Rangers 1-1 Braga (Martínez 69)
A nightmare for Rangers against 10-man Braga! The visitors claw themselves back into the game through Gabri Martínez, who bundles a finish at the back post after a mix up in the Rangers defence, an awful error from Nasser Djiga. The move stemmed from a Braga throw in, but replays show it should clearly have been a corner.
GOAL! Nottingham Forest 3-0 Malmö (Milenkovic 60)
Not the prettiest goal but Milenkovic won’t care one jot. Up from the back for a set-piece, the big Serbian pounces on a rebound after Yates has a shot blocked. Forest are far superior, but it’s been disappointing how bad Malmo have been. They have showed so little ambition tactically, considering they only have one point from their first four matches.
GOAL! Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0-6 Lyon (Karabec 62)
The Israeli side are sinking without trace. Karabec takes a cross on his chest and finishes under the goalkeeper from an acute angle to score Lyon’s sixth of the evening! Sixth! Corentin Tolisso, the former Bayern Munich midfielder now at Lyon, has a hat-trick, by the way.
RED CARD! Braga’s Zalazar is sent off at Ibrox!
60 min: Zalazar, Braga’s top scorer this season, gets involved in an argument with Rangers’ Raskin, after which the Uruguayan makes a headbutt motion towards the Belgian. It’s not clear how much contact has been made, but the intention was certainly aggressive and it’s an act of stupidity from Braga’s top scorer. The referee goes to the monitor and issues the red card! Total headloss. Rangers simply must win the match from this pint. Thirty minutes to go, a goal and a man to the good.
Rangers 1-0 Braga
53 min: Braga feeling their way back into this game. João Moutinho, now 39 years young, is still pulling the strings in midfield. It’s so windy at Ibrox by the way that the players are struggling to keep the ball still to take a corner.
GOAL! Red Star Belgrade 1-0 FCSB (Duarte 51)
Despite being down to 10 men after Tebo Uchenna saw red, Red Star have taken the lead through Bruno Duarte!
Nottingham Forest 2-0 Malmo
48 min: Bolin goes down in a heap after a heavy challenge with the hefty Murillo. The Swede has rolled an ankle, I think, leading to the Malmo physios applying what can only be described as creative amount of tape to Bolin’s ankle area, sort of wrapping an ice pack around the foot. Looks good, to be fair. Bolin hobbles off, Ekong on.
Peeeeeeep!
We’re back underway in our nine 8pm GMT kick-offs.
Half-time reading:
Half-time scores!
GOAL! Nottingham Forest 2-0 Malmo (Kalimuendo 44)
Kalimuendo gets his first goal for Forest after signing in the summer! That’s a big goal for the Frenchman, who taps in a rebound after an excellent Yates header.
GOAL! Real Betis 1-0 Utrecht (Cucho Hernández 42)
Antony the creator as the former Manchester United winger shows unbelievable upper body strength to shoulder-barge his way past a marker, before delivering a pin-point cross to Cucho Hernández in the middle. Somebody sound the diving header klaxon!
GOAL! Rangers 1-0 Braga (Tavernier 45)
Tavernier sends Hornicek the wrong way, passing it into the net. That’s the right-back’s 21st European goal, which puts him level with Ally McCoist in the Rangers history books.
Penalty to Rangers! Braga’s Navarro penalised for handball!
The referee missed it first time around, but VAR intervenes and Navarro clearly handles the ball from a cross. It’s definitely not deliberate, but the arm is away from the body, etc and so on. It’s probably the right call, within the realms of these ridiculous rules.
GOAL! Go Ahead Eagles 0-2 Stuttgart (Leweling 35)
I can’t have eyes on every game, so am grateful for this email from Kári Tulinius. “Leweling scored another,” he writes. “He received a pass upfield from Angelo Stiller, advanced upfield and placed it perfectly into the bottom left corner from outside the box. Oh, and he deserves more praise for his first, because he created the chance by having the presence of mind to dummy the ball so that it ran to Deniz Undav, who set Leweling up for his goal.”
GOAL! Maccabi Tel-Aviv 0-3 Lyon (Niakhaté pen 35)
Lyon are running riot in Serbia against the Israeli side, with former Nottingham Forest defender Niakhaté scoring from the spot. Tolisso had scored Lyon’s second.
Rangers 0-0 Braga
36 min: The Scottish side are pressing for the opener. Danilo wastes a good chance after Chermiti creates the opening. Then very valid shouts for a Rangers penalty as Gassama goes down in the box. It certainly looked clumsy from Martínez, who bundles into the back of the Gers winger.
GOAL! Bologna 1-1 RB Salzburg (Vertessen 33)
The Austrian side are level, with Vertessen leading a counter attack and pouncing on a rebound when Ravaglia spilled an initial shot.
GOAL! Nottingham Forest 1-0 Malmö (Yates 27)
Yates has scored in each of the top five divisions of English football – the Premier League, Championship, League One, League Two, and National League – and now has scored his first European goal for Forest. The home side caught Malmo cold with a quick throw, Milenkovic of all people popped up on the right wing and after a deflected cross, Yates was there to steer a finish into the corner. “He’s one of our own” serenade the Forest fans.
GOAL! Bologna 1-0 RB Salzburg (Odgaard 26)
Dreadful defending from the Austrian side as they fail to deal with a cross – the ball bobbling out to Odgaard on the edge of Salzburg’s area, and the Dane whips it into the corner.
GOAL! Go Ahead Eagles 0-1 Stuttgart (Leweling 20)
Stuttgart are going well at the moment, fifth in the Bundesliga and secured a 3-3 draw at Dortmund at the weekend, with former Brighton striker Deniz Undav getting a hat-trick.
But it’s Leweling that has got the goal at Go Ahead Eagles, scoring with a neat trivela finish after being slipped through.
Nottingham Forest 0-0 Malmo
18 min: Abbott is not shy coming forward and takes aim from 25 yards, but the shot flies over. Neither side look particularly dangerous. You can tell that the home side are made up of mostly second-string players and tell that the visitors haven’t played a competitive game of football in 17 days.
Rangers 0-0 Braga
14 min: Butland makes an extroadinary save to deny Braga skipper Horta, who shot through a crowd of players towards the far corner. Horta was certain he had scored before Butland tipped it wide, and wore a face of disbelief afterwards.
GOAL! Genk 1-0 Basel (Oh Hyeon-gyu 14)
Oh Hyeon-gyu gets his third Europa League goal of the season – now joint top of the scoring standings in this competition – to give the Belgian side the lead.
Rangers 0-0 Braga
8 min: A very sluggish start by the home side. From what I have seen, there hasn’t been a huge improvement under Danny Röhl, although it’s still early days in his Rangers tenure.
GOAL! Maccabi Tel Aviv 0-1 Lyon (Abner Vinícius 4)
We have our first goal from the 8pm GMT kick-offs! A simple tap in for the Brazilian at the back post. This match is being played in Serbia, by the way.
Nottingham Forest 0-0 Malmo
3 min: Kalimuendo flashes a shot across the six-yard box after a lovely slide rule pass from Murillo. There is a nice blend of experience and youth in this Forest side, with Dyche making seven changes from the team that beat Liverpool on Saturday. Teenager Zach Abbott is in at right-back for just his fifth first-team appearance. Malmo are captained this evening by the former Leeds defender Pontus Jansson and have former Blackburn and Norwich defender Martin Olsson lurking on the bench.
Peeeeeeeep!
The 8pm GMT games are all underway.
The teams are out at both the City Ground and Ibrox. Tifos galore at the former, celebrating Brian Clough sat with Peter Taylor, plus Trevor Francis. It’s a special atmosphere.
This is what those early results do to the Europa League table. Celtic up to 17th and back into the safety of the playoff places.
Full-time: Aston Villa 2-1 Young Boys
Villa cling on for the victory and go level on points with leaders Midtjylland at the top of the league phase standings. Gosh, the English side made hard work of that at the end.
GOAL! Aston Villa 2-1 Young Boys (Joël Monteiro 90+1)
Young Boys give themselves a lifeline through Monteiro but only have four more minutes of stoppage time to find an equaliser!
Full-time: Feyenoord 1-3 Celtic
A famous and valuable win for the Glasgow side. Despite going 1-0 down, Celtic roared back with goals from Yang Hyun-jun, Reo Hatate and Benjamin Nygren.
Aston Villa, meanwhile, retain a 2-0 lead over Young Boys with around five minutes left at Villa Park.
Malen’s second goal there sparked furious scenes in the away end, with Young Boys supporters clashing with police. Punches were thrown and objects thrown at both the police and onto the pitch, with Malen himself being caught on the head by a plastic cup.
Celtic have scored again, through Benjamin Nygren! They lead Feyenoord 3-1 now, and just have a few minutes of stoppage time to see out!
Nottingham Forest v Malmö teams!
Nottingham Forest: John Victor, Abbott, Milenkovic, Murillo, Morato, Yates, Sangare, Dominguez, McAtee, Hudson-Odoi, Kalimuendo.
Subs: Sels, Willows, Williams, Anderson, Ndoye, Igor Jesus, Boly, Savona, Whitehall, Thompson, Sinclair.
Malmö FF: Ellborg, Stryger Larsen, Jansson, Duric, Rosler, Haksabanovic, Johnsen, Skogmar, Bolin, Gudjohnsen, Busanello.
Subs: Olsen, Johan Karlsson, Lewicki, Christiansen, Ekong, Olsson, Berg, Botheim, Holmquist Vecchia, Busuladzic, Soumah.
Referee: Harm Osmers (Germany)
Rangers v Braga teams!
Rangers: Butland, Tavernier, Fernandez, Djiga, Aarons, Barron, Diomande, Raskin, Gassama, Danilo, Chermiti.
Subs: Kelly, Wright, Aasgaard, Cameron, Antman, Miovski, Meghoma, Curtis, Adamson.
Braga: Hornicek, Gomez, Lagerbielke, Niakate, Arrey-Mbi, Zalazar, Joao Moutinho, Gorby, Martinez, Navarro, Ricardo Horta.
Subs: Tiago Sa, Bellarouch, Lelo, Carvalho, El Ouazzani, Paulo Oliveira, Gabriel Moscardo, Victor, Dorgeles, Grillitsch, Rodrigues, Vidigal.
Referee: Allard Lindhout (Holland)
Villa are coasting towards victory over Young Boys thanks to two goals from Donyell Malen. With leaders Midtjylland losing 1-0 to Roma, that means Villa will go level on points at the top of the league phase standings, should the scores stay this way.
Martin O’Neill is on the verge of signing off as interim Celtic manager in style with a 2-1 win away at Feyenoord. Just 25 minutes to go for what would be a very impressive victory.
This is the current state of play in the early kick-offs, and a full run down of the 8pm kick-offs to come.
Preamble
Nottingham Forest v Malmö and memories of 1979. The two clubs have a special connection, also meeting in Forest’s last European campaign in the 1995-96 Uefa Cup, but it is the European Cup final 46 years ago that entwines these two together, with Britain’s first £1m player Trevor Francis heading the only goal of a pretty miserable final to clinch eternal glory for the red half of Nottingham.
“Brian Clough and Peter Taylor, grey-sweatered and anonymous amid all the colour and celebration, stood for a moment on a bench calmly observing the mafficking,” wrote David Lacey in 1979. Theirs has been an outstanding achievement that it is hard to see being repeated – from Second Division to European football in three seasons.”
It’s also interesting to pause a little on Malmö, who became the first, and to date the last, Scandinavian side to reach the final under English manager Bob Houghton. If you want to know a little bit more about that side and how they nearly conquered Europe, Jonathan Wilson does a pretty good job here.
This match is a far cry from that summit, closer perhaps to the Uefa Cup first-round tie between Forest and Malmö in 1995-96. Forest are absolutely buzzing after thrashing Liverpool 3-0 at Anfield on Saturday, while Malmö haven’t kicked a competitive ball since 9 November following the end of the Swedish league season (in which they finished a disappointing sixth). The smart money is on the English side tonight.
Plenty of other action on offer in this clockwatch. Rangers have already been beaten by a Braga this season (Striker Claudio Braga helped Hearts to a 2-0 win over the Glasgow side in September). Rangers are rock bottom of the 36-team Europa League standings at the half-way stage of the league phase with precisely zero points and one goal scored. They desperately need a victory if they are to have any hope of making a late surge for a playoff spot (they would have to finish at least 24th to do so).
We’ll keep you up to date with all nine of the 8pm kick-offs and provide the latest scores from the earlier matches, including Aston Villa v Young Boys and Feyenoord v Celtic.
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