Aston Villa 4-2 Celtic: Morgan Rogers' Hat-Trick Powers Hosts To Victory, Securing Top-Eight Spot

Morgan Rogers scored a hat-trick to help Aston Villa beat Celtic 4-2 in the final round of Champions League fixtures within the 36-team league and help secure a top-eight spot. (More Sports News)

Rogers got off to a brilliant start at Vi🍒lla Park, netting the first two of his goals inside the opening five 👍minutes to get the hosts up and running.

The 🍨first goal saw him turn in from close range, while the second was a lovely dipping shot that went beyond Celtic goalkeeper Kasper Schmeichel.

But Scottish side Celtic also had🅠 something to play for, with an outside sh𝄹out of a top-eight spot themselves, and hauled themselves back into the game remarkably. Adam Idah stunned the home crowd with his own two-minute salvo to get the visitors level.

Idah's goals game in the 36th and 38th minutes to make it 2-2 and this breath✤less encounter roared back into life in the second half, with Ollie Watkins restoring Aston Villa's lead on the hour.

Watkins had a chance to make it 4-2 just four minutes later, but stuck a penalty over the bar 🎀to make it a nervy end to the match.

Rogers, though, managed to get 𒈔his hat-trick in stoppage time, meaning that Aston Villa finish eighth in 💮the league stage and bypass the play-off round.

Data debrief: Brilliant Rogers inspires Villa 

Rogers' goals here took his tally to 10 in all competitio𝔍ns, while it was also his first career hat-trick.

Watkins, meanwhile, has now failed to score two of his last four penalt💛ies for Aston Villa𓃲.

For Celtic, it was also a night of history as Adam Idah bec💃ame the first Celtic player to score at least two goals in an away game in the European Cup/UEFA Champions League since Johannes Edvaldsson and Robert Lennox both netted braces against Jeunesse d'Esch in September 1977.