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Aston Villa host Bayern Munich at Villa Park on Wednesday evening in the second round of fixtures in the 2024/25 Champions League.
The match is another showdown thrown together by the competition’s new league phase format, and Villa come into it having retained much of their from from last season.
Unai Emery’s side are fifth in the Premier League on 13 points, just two behind leaders Liverpool, though they missed the chance to go top of the league last weekend as they drew 2-2 to Ipswich.
As 3-0 win away at BSC Young Boys was a solid start to the European campaign for Villa, but it was bettered by some distance by Bayern’s win in their opener, as the Bavarians beat Dinamo Zagreb 9-2.
And the German champions will provide perhaps the toughest test of the season so far to Unai Emery’s budding Villa side.
Follow all the latest build-up, team news and score updates below, as well as the reaction to the evening’s other Champions League matches:
Aston Villa vs Bayern Munich LIVE
Good evening and welcome to TheIndependent’s live coverage of tonight’s Champions League match between Aston Villa and Bayern Munich at Villa Park.
The fixture list throws together a repeat of the 1982 European Cup final – which was won 1-0 by Villa – and the Premier League side face the German giants in just their second season in the competition since that famous night in Rotterdam.
History has been kinder to Bayern since the early 80s, and the German giants sit top of the Bundesliga this season after four wins in five games.
But though Villa drew to newly promoted Ipswich 2-2 last week, the Villans are capable of taking points off the Bavarians in tonight’s match.
We’ll have all the latest build-up, updates and reaction right here.
Chris Wilson2 October 2024 17:31