Aston Villa beats Lille to reach Europa League quarterfinals, Forest advances on penalties

LONDON: (Mar 20) (AP) John McGinn scored and Aston Villa advanced to the quarterfinals of a European competition for the third straight year with a 2-0 victory over Lille.

Villa, protecting a 1-0 lead in the return leg of the Europa League round of 16, advanced 3-0 on aggregate on Thursday to set up a quarterfinal against Bologna, which beat Roma 4-3 after extra time to advance 5-4 on aggregate.

McGinn who only returned from a knee injury a week ago, completed a move started by Villa goalkeeper Emiliano Martínez, who fed Jadon Sancho with a long pass to assist the Villa captain in the second half. Substitute Leon Bailey sealed the victory late on.