{"id":47817,"date":"2026-05-16T07:37:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47817"},"modified":"2026-05-16T07:37:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-16T01:52:15","slug":"aston-villa-beat-liverpool-4-2-to-seal-champions-league-qualification","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/aston-villa-beat-liverpool-4-2-to-seal-champions-league-qualification\/","title":{"rendered":"Aston Villa beat Liverpool 4-2 to seal Champions League qualification"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Agency, May 16:<\/strong> Aston Villa secured qualification for the UEFA Champions League after defeating Liverpool F.C. 4-2 in the Premier League on Friday night.<\/p>\n<p>Playing at Villa Park, Aston Villa produced an impressive performance to confirm their place among Europe\u2019s elite clubs for next season. Ollie Watkins starred with a brace, while Morgan Rogers and John McGinn added a goal each for the home side. Liverpool captain Virgil van Dijk scored both goals for the visitors.<\/p>\n<p>Villa took the lead in the 42nd minute when Rogers found the back of the net to make it 1-0 before halftime. Liverpool responded in the 52nd minute through Van Dijk, who equalized to level the score at 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>However, Villa regained control just five minutes later as Watkins restored the lead with a clinical finish. The English forward struck again in the 73rd minute to extend Villa\u2019s advantage to 3-1 and put the hosts firmly in command.<\/p>\n<p>McGinn then added a fourth goal in the 89th minute to seal the victory for Villa. Van Dijk managed to score his second goal deep into stoppage time, but it was only a consolation as Liverpool suffered a 4-2 defeat.<\/p>\n<p>With the win, Aston Villa climbed to fourth place in the league table with 62 points from 37 matches, while Liverpool remained fifth with 59 points from the same number of games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Agency, May 16: Aston Villa secured qualification for the UEFA Champions League after defeating Liverpool F.C. 4-2 in the Premier League on Friday night. Playing at Villa Park, Aston Villa produced an impressive performance to confirm their place among Europe\u2019s elite clubs for next season. Ollie Watkins starred with a brace, while Morgan Rogers and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47818,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47817"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47817"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47817\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47820,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47817\/revisions\/47820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47818"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}