• Fenerbahce are 12th with three wins

• Villa are third with five wins from six

• Recommended bet: Talisca anytime scorer

Aston Villa head off to the Sukru Saracoglu Stadium in Istanbul to take on fiery Turkish aces Fenerbahce in their penultimate Europa League group-stage fixture.

Villa are sitting pretty on 15 points but still have work to do to nail down a top-eight place and avoid the play-off round, while Fener, in 12th on 11 points, will be desperate for the three points in front of their own fans.

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Team news

Former Villa forward Jhon Duran is available for Fenerbahce after having a ban reduced from two games to one.

Right-back Archie Brown is out with a toe injury.

Villa have a crisis in midfield with Boubacar Kamara joining John McGinn, Amadou Onana and Ross Barkley on the injured list.

Evann Guessand and Jadon Sancho could get starts while Ollie Watkins is sure to lead the line.

The stats

Fenerbahce are 12th in the Europa League standings with 11 points, while Villa are third with 15.

Fenerbahce have lost just one of 15 home games this season, and none of five in European football.

Villa have won 19 of their last 24 matches in all competitions.

Domenico Tedesco's Turkish giants are on a run of seven wins in their last eight matches.

Fenerbahce are the bad boys of the 2025/26 Europa League campaign with 26 yellow cards in six matches, six more than the next worst side.

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Prediction

Unai Emery's men will be delighted to have banked a place in the next stage of the Europa League because they would not have relished going to Fenerbahce needing a victory.

A win would help – it would nail down a top-eight finish and a play-off round bye with one qualifying match still to go – but it is not critical.

More importantly, given recent slip-ups in the Premier League, Sunday's trip to Newcastle will be crucial, so Emery will surely have to utilise his squad in Istanbul.

Villa will still be a force to reckon with given how well they are playing and Fenerbahce, who could do with a win to settle any last-day nerves at Steaua next week, will be very wary.

They will also, if you believe boss Tedesco, be bang up for the occasion as they look to make it eight wins in nine.

The Turks will be a threat because they score plenty of goals with few around Europe's top leagues in a richer vein of form than Talisca right now.

With nothing particularly standing out in the 90-minute match prices, look at the scorer markets.

The Brazilian comes into the game fresh from scoring twice in Sunday's 3-2 win at Alyanaspor in the Super Lig, making it eight in his last four games and 16 for the season.

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