Olympiakos shattered Aston Villa's European dream after beating the Premier League side 2-0 in the second leg of the semi-final of the Europa Conference League.
Villa were eyeing a first European final since 1982 but, with the ancient Acropolis in the backdrop of the Stadio Georgios Karaiskakis, their hopes are now in ruins after a 6-2 aggregate defeat.
They travelled to Athens needing a Herculean effort to overturn a 4-2 deficit from the first leg, but limped to a 2-0 defeat on the night, with last week's hat-trick hero Ayoub El Kaabi scoring the goals which sent the Greek side through to their first-ever European final.
It concluded a miserable season on the continent for Premier League sides as there is no English representative in a final for the first time since 2019/20 and Unai Emery will see this isas a huge missed opportunity to win a fifth European trophy in a tournament they were favourites for.
Olympiakos owner Evangelos Marinakis, who also owns Nottingham Forest, was seen celebrating his club reaching the final across the city at the home of deadly rivals AEK Athens in three weeks.
