{"id":669855,"date":"2026-05-20T13:20:03","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T17:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=669855"},"modified":"2026-05-20T14:00:03","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T18:00:03","slug":"freiburg-vs-aston-villa-team-confirmed-lineups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2026\/05\/20\/freiburg-vs-aston-villa-team-confirmed-lineups\/","title":{"rendered":"Freiburg vs Aston Villa: Confirmed Lineups and Team News for UEL Final"},"content":{"rendered":"

The first European final is upon us, and it’s Freiburg vs Aston Villa in the Europa League final at Be\u015fikta\u015f Park, Istanbul, kick-off 8 pm GMT.<\/p>\n

Freiburg would make history tonight should they win, as they have yet to win a major trophy in their almost 122-year history. Can this young, free-scoring team take the final step and become club legends?<\/p>\n

Villa, on the other hand, are former European Champions and have won many trophies in their illustrious 151-year history. However, their last was 30 years ago, but they have a manager who is taking charge of his sixth Europa League final<\/p>\n

Here’s the latest team news and confirmed lineups ahead of the Freiburg vs Aston Villa UEL Final.<\/p>\n

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Freiburg vs Aston Villa: Team News and Confirmed Lineups for UEFA Europa League Final<\/h2>\n

Freiburg Team News<\/h3>\n

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Out:<\/strong> Yuito Suzuki (above) is out with a collarbone fracture sustained against Wolfsburg at the beginning of the month.<\/p>\n

Apart from Suzuki, Freiburg boss Julian Schuster has a full strength squad to choose from \u201cThat’s no given, playing three times a week,” Schuster said<\/a>. “A huge thank you to all our trainers, doctors, physios.”<\/p>\n

Schuster also spoke about their journey to Istanbul. He said<\/a>: “It is very special. We’ve recently been in the second division and now are going to play a European final. I have so much confidence in my team, and they give me that belief because there’s so much quality. I am not nervous, we have the confidence we need to play a great team and a great coach tomorrow.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Aston Villa Team News<\/h3>\n

Out:<\/strong> Boubacar Kamara (Knee injury), Ross Barkley (Ineligible), and Alysson (Ineligible)<\/span><\/p>\n

Doubt: <\/strong>Amadou Onana will be assessed before the game, and a late call is expected to be made as to whether the midfielder can take part.<\/p>\n

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Ahead of the game, captain and hero of the semi-final, John McGinn<\/a> (above), spoke about the final and how proud he is.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe want to be focused on this match. We know how good Freiburg are. We know how difficult it is to get to a final. So, we’ll treat them with the utmost respect, like they deserve, and we will only build as a club if we keep doing the same things that we are doing.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, if you ask on a personal level, after all the years I’ve been here, it definitely is the proudest moment as captain.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Freiburg Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Atubolu<\/p>\n

Kubler<\/p>\n

Ginter<\/p>\n

Lienhart<\/p>\n

Treu<\/p>\n

Eggestein<\/p>\n

Hofler<\/p>\n

Beste<\/p>\n

Manzambi<\/p>\n

Grifo<\/p>\n

Matanovic<\/p>\n

Subs: Muller, Huth, Jung, Osterhage, Scherhant, Holer, Irie, Philipp, Gunter, Makengo, Rosenfelder, Ogbus.<\/span><\/p>\n

Aston Villa Confirmed Lineup<\/h3>\n

Martinez<\/p>\n

Cash<\/p>\n

Lindelof<\/p>\n

Konsa<\/p>\n

McGinn<\/p>\n

Tielemans<\/p>\n

Buendia<\/p>\n

Watkins<\/p>\n

Digne<\/p>\n

Pau<\/p>\n

Rogers<\/p>\n

Subs: Bizot, Wright, Mings, Elliott, Garcia, Abraham, Sancho, Luiz, Maatsen, Onana, Bogarde, Bailey<\/p>\n

Featured image courtesy of Imago\/STEINSIEK.CH<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The first European final is upon us, and it’s Freiburg vs Aston Villa in the Europa League final at Be\u015fikta\u015f Park, Istanbul, kick-off 8 pm GMT. Freiburg would make history tonight should they win, as they have yet to win a major trophy in their almost 122-year history. Can this young, free-scoring team take the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":135,"featured_media":669856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3838,8431,1828,1830,30,1831],"tags":[8195,32676,92,9002,913,170],"class_list":["post-669855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aston-villa","category-europa-league","category-fixtures","category-injuries","category-news","category-starting-line-up","tag-aston-villa-news","tag-aston-villa-team-news","tag-europa-league","tag-freiburg","tag-sc-freiburg","tag-uefa"],"modified_by":"Barry Dixon, LWOF Site Manager","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669855","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/135"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=669855"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669870,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/669855\/revisions\/669870"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/669856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=669855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=669855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=669855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}