Nottingham Forest hosts Porto in the Europa League later on Thursday, just two days after Sean Dyche became the club’s third manager of the season. Struggling Forest is hoping for its first win in the competition.

Follow live text commentary of Thursday's Europa and Conference League action, with Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Crystal Palace all in action.

Freiburg stretched their unbeaten run across all competitions to eight matches with a 2-0 Europa League victory over Dutch side Utrecht on Thursday. Unmarked Yuiko Suzuki gave Freiburg a 20th minute lead when Christian Günter laid the ball back to him from the left.

Con un gol de Mats Deijl en la segunda mitad, el debutante europeo Go Ahead Eagles completó la remontada para vencer el jueves 2-1 a Aston Villa en la Liga Europa.

Here’s how to watch the Europa League match on TV and live stream as well as the latest team news. The Sporting News takes you through all the information you need to follow the game.

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Axelera AI on Tuesday said its newly revealed Europa AI chip can outperform certain Nvidia products using less energy and at lower cost for high-performance edge computing use cases, including large language models and computer vision.

The 2025-26 Europa League begins this week, as Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa bid to keep the UEFA Cup in the Premier League after Tottenham Hotspur beat Manchester United to the silverware last season.