The latest Nottingham Forest news as the Greek businessman is the owner of Olympiacos who came out as 4-2 winners at Villa Park on Thursday night.
It’s not very often that Nottingham Forest and Olympiacos owner Evangelos Marinakis gets to watch his Greek team in action in England, but that was the case on Thursday night.
Goals from Ayoub El Kaabi put the Greek side 2-0 up in the first half, although Ollie Watkins did half the deficit just before half time. Villa thought that thy had completed a comeback in the second half when Moussa Diaby squeezed the ball in from a tight angle.READ MORE: Nottingham Forest handed big injury boost ahead of crunch Sheffield United clash
The result means that Villa will now have to score three goals away from home without reply if they wish to make it to the final of the competition without the need for another penalty shootout. The result for Olympiacos was much to the delight of the travelling fans.
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