Aston Villa beats Rangers, earn first win to launch Europa League bid

Aston Villa ended their winless run by beating Bologna 10 to open their Europa League campaign while Rangers manager Russell Martins job was placed into peril by a 10 home defeat to Genk on ThursdayDespite failing to win any of their first five Premier League games Villa had been installed as pretournament favourites for the Europa LeagueThe English side reached the quarterfinals of the Champions League last season losing narrowly to eventual winners Paris Saint Germain and in Unai Emery have a manager who has won the Europa League four times during spells at Sevilla and VillarrealA feeling all is not well in the Villa camp was evidenced by Emery labelling his players lazy after failing to beat 10man Sunderland on Sunday while sporting director Monchi left the club this weekHowever they did enough to get the better of the Coppa Italia winners thanks to captain John McGinns early strikeThe Scotland international fired into the bottom corner from the edge of the area on 13 minutesOllie Watkins was left on the bench after his scoreless start to the campaign and failed to break his drought even from the penalty spot in the second halfThe England internationals tame spotkick was easily saved by Lukasz Skorupski Villa could have been made to pay when Santiago Castro headed against the barBut just as when the sides met in the Champions League last season Bolognas trip to Villa Park ended in defeat Important to get a win at home after not our strongest start to the season said McGinnWe havent been good enough Weve had a lot of praise the past couple of seasons and were rightly being criticised at the minute Oh no for Rangers Rangers boss Martin was met with more chants for his exit after the Scottish giants latest disappointing result at Ibrox Mohamed Diomandes red card just before halftime for a wild challenge gave the home side a mountain to climbFormer Celtic striker Oh HyeonGyu had a mixed return to Glasgow as his penalty in firsthalf stoppage time was saved by Jack ButlandBut the South Korean international grabbed the only goal with a composed finish 10 minutes into the second period Former Southampton boss Martin who was only hired in June has now failed to win any of Rangers last eight games in the Scottish Premiership or European competitionOlivier Giroud scored Lilles late winner in a 21 victory over Norwegian side Brann American international Tanner Tessmann handed Lyon a 10 win away to Utrecht Stuttgart beat Celta Vigo 21 while Porto were 10 winners away to RB SalzburgThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever