The Debrief: Villa & Palace make it to European finals
Football Daily
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4.3 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
Steve Crossman is joined by Dion Dublin, Ian Dennis, and Nick Mashiter at Villa Park as Aston Villa beat Nottingham Forest to make it to the Europa League final and set up a shot at their first major trophy for 30 years.
We’re also at Selhurst Park where Crystal Palace made it to their first ever European final with a 5-2 aggregate win over Shakhtar Donetsk
Plus, we hear from Unai Emery who has the chance to win a fifth Europa League title as a manager.
TIMECODES: 00:06 - Aston Villa into the Europa League Final 20:19 - Crystal Palace make the Conference League Final 25:17 - Unai Emery reaction
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| 0:36.5 | On the Football Daily podcast, The Debrief, with Steve Crosman. |
| 0:42.2 | We're inside, Villa Park, where Aston Villa have just booked their place in the Europa |
| 0:47.2 | League final. |
| 0:49.0 | They'll be there in Istanbul. |
| 0:50.8 | On Wednesday, the 20th of May, they'll be playing Freiburg in the final Crystal |
| 0:58.5 | Palace will be there on Wednesday the 27th of May in Leipzig to face Rio |
| 1:05.1 | Viacano in the conference league final Arsenal will be there in Budapest on Saturday the 30th of May |
| 1:14.3 | for their Champions League final against Paris Saint-German. For the first time ever, |
| 1:20.5 | there are three English clubs in the finals in each final. at Villa Park the party is well underway |
| 1:29.3 | emmy Martinez has just tried to climb up the crossbar but he's too little dee on Dublin |
| 1:34.3 | we found something the World Cup winner can't do yes that was awful effort to get on top of the goal there let me tell you from emmy, well that's the only awful thing he's done tonight. |
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