Aston Villa 4-0 Bologna: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 16 April 2026

Result

Aston Villa 4-0 Bologna

Europa League · Thursday 16 April 2026, 19:00 UTC · half-time 3-0

Aston Villa · Bologna · Europa League predictions

Aston Villa 4-0 Bologna: match report

Aston Villa defeated Bologna 4-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 16 April 2026. The half-time score was 3-0.

Ollie Watkins opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Ollie Watkins (16'), Emiliano Buendía (26'), Morgan Rogers (39') and Ezri Konsa (89'). Bologna did not score.

Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Bologna received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 3rd on 30 points from 11 and Bologna 7th on 23 points from 13. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Bologna in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Lucas Digne of Aston Villa (8.1), ahead of Morgan Rogers (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Aston Villa wins, 0 draws and 0 for Bologna.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 16'Goal · Ollie WatkinsAston Villa · 1-0
  • 25'Missed penalty · Morgan RogersAston Villa
  • 26'Goal · Emiliano BuendíaAston Villa · 2-0
  • 29'Yellow card · Federico BernardeschiBologna
  • 39'Goal · Morgan RogersAston Villa · 3-0
  • 89'Goal · Ezri KonsaAston Villa · 4-0

Head-to-head

3 meetings: Aston Villa 3, draws 0, Bologna 0.

Team news

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Aston Villa line-up (4-2-3-1)

Emiliano Martínez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Amadou Onana, Youri Tielemans, John McGinn, Morgan Rogers, Emiliano Buendía, Ollie Watkins

Bologna line-up (4-2-3-1)

Federico Ravaglia, Juan Miranda, Martin Vitík, Nicolò Casale, João Mário, Remo Freuler, Nikola Moro, Federico Bernardeschi, Lewis Ferguson, Jonathan Rowe, Santiago Castro