Aston Villa and Celtic both harbor hopes of earning byes to the UEFA Champions League knockout rounds, with the hosts at Villa Park on solid footing heading into Wednesday's league phase finale.

Celtic have recorded back-to-back clean sheets on the road in Europe and a third shutout at Villa Park would be a real confidence booster heading into the playoffs. But Celts face a team gunning for last 16 qualification and Unai Emery’s motivated troops will likely be too hot to handle.

Morgan Rogers inspired the Lions to victory with his first career hat-trick, including two goals in the opening five minutes, and although Celtic fought back with a brace from Adam Idah, the Premier League side prevailed to seal a top-eight finish in the 36-team standings.

Tottenham debutant Olivia Holdt scored a superb stoppage time free-kick to seal a dramatic late 3-2 victory over Crystal Palace. Bethany England opened the scoring in the driving rain, heading home from a superb cross from Anna Csiki. Less than ten minutes later the striker scored again with another header, this time from a Maite Oroz corner.

Morgan Rogers hit a superb hat-trick in front of England manager Thomas Tuchel to help Aston Villa into the last-16 of the Champions League as Ollie Watkins experienced the strangest of nights.

Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers brings a history of success against the Birmingham-based side that could inspire confidence among the

New West Ham manager Graham Potter’s dugout debut for the Irons came against Villa in the FA Cup, falling to a 2-1 defeat. Since then, he’s struggled to break the sluggish, inconsistent form which resulted in Julen Lopetegui’s sacking – beating Fulham 3-2 before being well beaten by Crystal Palace in a 2-0 defeat last time out.

All the pre-match chat had surrounded the futures of Ollie Watkins and Jhon Duran, but it was Morgan Rogers - an £8million signing from Middlesbrough this time last year - who stole the show and fired Aston Villa into the last-16 of the Champions League...

Aston Villa manager Unai Emery has said that he has "enough players to compete and feel confident" after an injury to Tyrone Mings limited his options in defence ahead of the visit of Celtic in the Champions League.

The Leicester City manager takes his side to Everton this weekend, looking to move the club further away from the bottom three and drag the Toffees back into the relegation battle

Ollie Watkins helps Aston Villa into the last 16 of the Champions League with win against Celtic - hours after Arsenal's approach for the England striker was made public.