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Champions League football returning to Villa Park offers the team a great opportunity at an important point in the season. Pete Hitchman

Fenerbahce clash offers Aston Villa important opportunity

Back under the lights at Villa Park, Unai Emery's side will look to build momentum at the start of a busy four-week spell.

13.10.26, 12:50 Updated 13.10.26, 15:39

“Oh, so that’s where he’s playing now?”

Aston Villa fans can expect to think that, or something similar, when Fenerbahce travel to the West Midlands in midweek for the second Champions League game of the campaign.

Well, second for Unai Emery’s Europa League winners. Fenerbahce, on the other hand, approach an eighth continental match of a season that began with Champions League qualification in mid-July, just two days after the World Cup final.

That’s despite the squad being stacked with players named in the respective rosters for Brazil, France, Portugal, Belgium, the Netherlands and Turkey over the summer.

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Michael Plant

Freelance reporter. Nearly a decade's experience in the media industry and a former Manchester United, Manchester City and Liverpool club correspondent. A Villa fan from birth, Michael was born in Birmingham but grew up in Belfast.

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