Forest can attain a primary European semi-final for 42 years.
Nottingham Forest will intention to achieve their first European semi-final since 1984 once they host Porto in a superbly poised Europa League quarter-final tie.
Forest had been the beneficiaries of a spectacular Martim Fernandes personal purpose within the first leg as they earned a 1-1 draw at Estadio do Dragao.
Having already overwhelmed Porto at dwelling within the league section this season, the hosts have purpose for confidence they will declare victory and arrange a last-four tie with both Midlands rivals Aston Villa or Bologna.
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Nottingham Forest staff information
Forest are with out midfielder Elliott Anderson following the loss of life of his mom, Helen.
Nottingham Forest: Ortega, Cunha, Murillo, Williams; Aina, Gibbs-White, Sangare, Dominguez, Ndoye; Hutchinson; Wooden.
Nottingham Forest substitutes: Sels, Willows, Morato, Hudson-Odoi, Jesus, Lucca, Yates, McAtee, Bakwa, Milenkovic, Abbott, Sinclair
Porto staff information
Porto: D. Costa, A. Costa, Thiago Silva, Bednarek, Zaidu; Fofana, Rosario, Veiga; Gomes, Moffi, Sainz
Porto substitutes: Ramos, J. Costa, Kiwior, Froholdt, Pepe, Prpic, Varela, Gui, Tiago Silva, Bras, Moura, Mora
The place to look at Nottingham Forest v Porto: TV and on-line streams
Nottingham Forest v Porto kicks off at 8:00pm UK time. Will probably be broadcast on TNT Sports activities 1 and could be streamed by way of HBO Max. Sky subscribers with a TNT package deal can stream the sport by way of Sky Go.
Stats for Nottingham Forest v Porto
- Of their main European historical past, Porto have performed 24 away matches in England and have by no means received (D3 L21). Their solely ‘away’ win towards an English facet was towards Chelsea in April 2021 in a Champions League quarter-final second leg, which was performed in Seville attributable to Covid-19 restrictions.
- Forest have misplaced three dwelling Europa League matches this season no English facet has ever misplaced 4 dwelling video games in a significant European season.
- Porto have didn’t win any of their 5 Europa League video games towards English opposition (D2 L3), probably the most occasions they’ve confronted sides from a specific nation within the competitors with out success.
- This will likely be Forest’s first main European quarter ultimate on dwelling soil since a 5-1 loss to Bayern Munich within the UEFA Cup in 1995-96. They’ve misplaced every of their final three dwelling knockout matches in main European competitors together with that match, as many defeats as throughout their prior 21 such matches mixed (W14 D4).
- Porto have solely received the second leg of 4 of their final 22 two-legged main European knockout ties (D6 L12), although one was towards Stuttgart within the final 16 of this season’s Europa League.
- Forest’s Igor Jesus has netted seven objectives on this season’s Europa League; just one Brazilian has ever scored extra in a single season within the competitors, Giuliano for Zenit St Petersburg in 2016-17 (8).
- After scoring within the first leg, William Gomes’ grew to become Porto’s prime Europa League scorer this season with 4 objectives. The final time a Brazilian netted 5 occasions or extra for the membership in a significant European marketing campaign was Galeno within the Champions League in 2023-24 (5), whereas the final to attain extra within the Europa League/UEFA Cup was Derlei in 2002-03 (12).
