Braga v Nottingham Forest, Rangers v Ludogorets, and more: Europa League – live

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Braga 0-0 Nottingham Forest

Forest are suffering for a lack of a centre forward, with Igor Jesus not in the starting team. Braga haven’t been very ambitious.

Goal! Dinamo Zagreb 2-0 FCSB (Dion Beljo 11)

Braga 0-0 Nottingham Forest

Ryan Yates has an effort, the follow up after Ndoye is laid up by James McAtee, who has been very quiet until that moment.

Peter Oh gets in touch: “I sure hope the club from the French Riviera can get results from their last group stage matches because you never want to see the Nice guys finishing last.”

Rangers 0-0 Ludogorets

Rangers have been much the better team in Glasgow, looking so much more confident than under Russell Martin. And coherent, too. Chermiti has been lively.

Goal! Red Bull Salzburg 2-0 Basel (Kerim Alajbegovic 12)

Goal! Nice 1-0 Go Ahead Eagles (Charles Vanhoutte 10)

Goal! Dinamo Zagreb 1-0 FCSB (Mounsef Bakrar 7)

Braga 0-0 Nottingham Forest

Morgan Gibbs-White sets off on a trademark run and is pulled down by Braga’s Niakate. That sets up a free-kick chance, and Gibbs-White takes it on himself and forces a fine save from Hornicek, the Braga keeper.

News from the Netherlands, where Utrecht v Genk has been delayed due to a safety situation at the away end. Many of the Belgian fans haven’t got into the stadium yet.

Braga 0-0 Nottingham Forest

Forest fans are outnumbering the home fans in Braga. Great turnout, though hopes of winter sun haven’t been met. Hope they packed raincoats.

Goal! Red Bull Salzburg 1-0 Basel (Kerim Alajbegovic 4)

Goal! Celta Vigo 1-0 Lille (Williot Swedberg 1)

Rangers 0-0 Ludogorets

An early chance for the Gers, as a skidding cross comes in for Youssef Chermiti but he took is skidding along as it comes in.

Some housekeeping from the early Europa League games: Lyon, Aston Villa and Freiburg are assured of a top eight position. Now, away we go in the later matches.

The weather in Braga looks biblical. A win for Forest would take them into seventh in the table. Not that the weather in Glasgow looks much better. Is the weather good anywhere?

A reminder of the later 8pm kick-offs.

• Celta Vigo v Lille

• Dinamo Zagreb v Steau

• Ferencvaros v Panathinaikos

• Nice v Go Ahead Eagles

• Rangers v Ludogorets

• Red Bull Salzburg v Basel

• Roma v Stuttgart

• Braga v Nottingham Forest

• Utrecht v Genk

For Forest, Sean Dyche has made seven changes to his starting XI from Saturday’s draw with Arsenal, with Matz Sels, Nikola Milenkovic, Ola Aina and Morgan Gibbs-White the only players to keep their places.

To the 8pms, Rangers seek a seventh win in succession, and Danny Rohl has shuffled his pack from playing Annan in the Scottish Cup. Out go: Kelly, Nsiala, Rothwell, Dowell, Curtis, Danilo and Miovski and in come: Butland, Fernandez, Raskin, Diomande, Aasgaard, Moore and Chermiti.

The table – as it stands after those early games.

Full-time scores in the early games

• Bologna 2-2 Celtic

• Brann 3-3 Midtjylland

• Fenerbahce 0-1 Aston Villa

• Feyenoord 3-0 Sturm Graz

• Freiburg 1-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv

• Malmo 0-1 Red Star Belgrade

• PAOK 2-0 Real Betis

• Viktoria 1-1 Porto (L)

• Young Boys 0-1 Lyon

Full-time: Fenerbahce 0-1 Aston Villa

Villa go through, and will not need the extra play-off round. Unai Emery’s mastery in this competition continues. Villa in the top eight whatever happens next week.

Full-time: Bologna 2-2 Celtic

The rearguard effort pays off, and Celtic grab a vital point, and even if they paid the price for being down to ten men, they have hope going into the final match. Next week, they play Utrecht at Parkhead.

Real rearguard effort in Italy from Celtic, with Liam Scales throwing himself at everything. Five minutes added on. Martin O’Neill wants the win, and sends up his players for a long throw. Celtic need a win. As it stands, they are 23rd, with other teams to play later tonight.

The player offside in that disallowed Fenerbahce goal was Jhon Duran, a familiar face to Aston Villa fans, cashed out to Saudi Arabian football last January but loaned to Turkey.

…But the Fenerbahce goal has been disallowed, Kerem Aktürkoğlu was offside as he pounced on a rebound.

Fenerbahce have equalised against Aston Villa, with Kerem Aktürkoğlu getting it. It’s 1-1 in Turkey.

It’s now 2-2 in Bologna, the Englishman Jonathan Rowe has got the goal, cutting across the Celtic defence to score.

Bologna's Jonathan Rowe levels things up for the home side against Celtic. Photograph: Elisabetta Baracchi/EPA

Aston Villa have had a goal disallowed, with Morgan Rogers netting after Jadon Sancho had been offside. Matty Cash has hit a post but Fenerbahce are creating chances, too.

Braga v Nottingham Forest teams

Braga: Hornicek, Lagerbielke, Niakate, Arrey-Mbi, Gomez, Grillitsch, Gorby, Martinez, Rodrigues, Ricardo Horta, Navarro. Subs: Tiago Sa, Bellarouch, Lelo, Carvalho, Joao Moutinho, Paulo Oliveira, Gabriel Moscardo, Victor, Dorgeles, da Rocha,
Aragao, Vidigal.

Nottingham Forest: Sels, Savona, Milenkovic, Morato, Aina, Bakwa, Yates, Douglas Luiz, McAtee, Ndoye, Gibbs-White. Subs: Gunn, Willows, Williams, Sangare, Hudson-Odoi, Anderson, Dominguez, Abbott, Whitehall, Thompson, Sinclair, Hammond.

Referee: Igor Pajac (Croatia)

Bologna have a goal, one that’s been coming, Thijs Dallinga nodding in beyond Kasper Schmeichel in the 58th minute, and that may mean a long 30 minutes for 10-man Celtic. Lewis Ferguson, the Scotland midfielder, is pulling some strings.

Rangers v Ludogorets teams

Rangers: Butland, Aarons, Djiga, Fernandez, Meghoma, Raskin, Diomande, Gassama, Aasgaard, Moore, Chermiti. Subs: Kelly, Wright, Tavernier, Rothwell, Antman, Miovski, Adamson, Curtis, Stewart, Danilo, Gentles.

Ludogorets: Bonmann, Son, Dinis Almeida, Verdon, Nedyalkov, Pedro Naressi, Duarte, Stanic, Caio Vidal, Bile, Erick Marcus. Subs: Padt, Hristov, Andersson, Machado, Chochev, Kaloc, Tekpetey, Shishkov, Nachmias, Penev, Stanislav Ivanov.

Referee: Manfredas Lukjancukas (Lithuania)

Aston Villa lead in Turkey after a Jadon Sancho goal, his first ever for the club, while Celtic lead 2-0 in Italy despite having Reo Hatate being red-carded. He had scored their early goal, before Auston Trusty got the second.

Aston Villa's Jadon Sancho celebrates after notching his first goal for the club. Photograph: Ümit Bektaş/Reuters

The later games

• Celta Vigo v Lille

• Dinamo Zagreb v Steau

• Ferencvaros v Panathinaikos

• Nice v Go Ahead Eagles

• Rangers v Ludogorets

• Red Bull Salzburg v Basel

• Roma v Stuttgart

• Braga v Nottingham Forest

• Utrecht v Genk

Half-time scores in the early matches

• Bologna 0-2 Celtic

• Brann 1-2 Midtjylland

• Fenerbahce 0-1 Aston Villa

• Freiburg 0-0 Maccabi Tel Aviv

• Malmo 0-1 Red Star Belgrade

• PAOK 0-0 Real Betis

• Viktoria 1-0 Porto

• Young Boys 0-1 Lyon

Preamble

Good evening, and it’s the Thursday club. Nottingham Forest have chance to nail down their hopes of making the knockout rounds, while Rangers need to win their last two matches to have any hope whatsoever of rescuing a grim campaign; it’s unlikely they will able to make it but perhaps pride can restored. We’ll also start with the latest from the earlier kick-offs, with Aston Villa and Celtic in action.

And full coverage of the 8pm kick-offs across Europe. Join me.