Ollie Watkins scored a hat-trick as Aston Villa all however secured a Conference League group-stage place with a 5-0 thrashing of Hibernian in its play-off spherical first leg on Wednesday.
The Premier League facet began its first European marketing campaign since dropping in Europa League qualifying in 2010 in high quality model.
Unai Emery’s males, who put 4 previous Everton on the weekend, began strongly as Watkins headed residence Lucas Digne’s cross within the seventeenth minute at Easter Road.
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Hibs had a penalty enchantment waved away quickly afterwards however any hope the Scottish membership had of an upset was ended as Watkins and Leon Bailey put former European champion Villa three objectives in entrance earlier than half-time.
Watkins completed one other Digne cross to finish his treble lower than three minutes into the second interval. Douglas Luiz added a fifth from the spot with 16 minutes left to probably enable Emery to relaxation gamers for subsequent week’s second leg.
Wednesday’s different match noticed Dnipro-1 draw 1-1 with Trnava in Slovakia.
