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We\u2019re now down to the quarter finals of the 2025\/26 Europa League. Who made it into our most recent team of the week?<\/strong><\/p>\n We witnessed victories for Nottingham Forest, Aston Villa and Porto in the last 16, but who were the best individual performers from midweek?<\/p>\n Frequently touted as one of the best goalkeepers in the world, Diogo Costa was playing at the peak of his powers when Porto overcame VfB Stuttgart on Thursday evening.<\/p>\n He came under heavy fire against Stuttgart, but was equal to everything they could throw at him. In total, Costa made six saves to preserve Porto\u2019s clean sheet.<\/p>\n Despite being a natural centre-back, Javi Rodriguez performed an excellent job at right-back for Celta Vigo against Lyon.<\/p>\n Rodriguez notched up an assist and kept a clean sheet away from home \u2013 having never won the Europa League, Celta are just a few wins away from history.<\/p>\n Former Southampton defender Jan Bednarek put all of his experience to use when Porto defeated Stuttgart at the Est\u00e1dio do Drag\u00e3o.<\/p>\n Despite the best efforts of their attacking talent, Stuttgart could not find a way to break Porto down \u2013 Bednarek won a total of eight defensive aerial duels throughout the game.<\/p>\n Braga completed a famous comeback win over Robbie Keane\u2019s Ferencv\u00e1ros to progress through to the quarter finals \u2013 Sikou Niakate was on hand to make sure there were no mistakes at the back.<\/p>\n Niakate held things together at the heart of their back three, making a number of clearances and tackles to keep Ferencvaros at bay. <\/p>\n \n <\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We\u2019re now down to the quarter finals of the 2025\/26 Europa League. Who made it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1264,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1263","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-arsenal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1263"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1263\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1263"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1263"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/osport.com.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}GK: Diego Costa<\/h2>\n
RB: Javi Rodr\u00edguez<\/h2>\n
CB: Jan Bednarek<\/h2>\n
CB: Sikou Niakat\u00e9<\/h2>\n