Meet Go Ahead Eagles - Aston Villa opponents with wild mascot and tiny stadium
Source: Birmingham Live
Published 13 hours ago
Aston Villa will continue their European adventure on Thursday when they travel to the Netherlands for Europa League match day three. Unai Emery's side has made a perfect start to the competition, winning their first two matches.
A 1-0 home win over Italian side Bologna was followed up with an impressive 2-0 away victory in Rotterdam against Feyenoord. And on the back of three successive Premier League victories, Villa head back to continental Europe this week in both good form and high spirits.
Their opponents are Go Ahead Eagles, who might not have the European pedigree of their Premier League visitors, but are writing an exciting story all of their own.
Aside from dedicated followers of the Dutch Eredivisie, few may know much about a team that is boxing above its weight and is familiar to this writer only because of its stand-out name on the classic computer video game Sensible Soccer in the 1990s.
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