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In the Knockout of the 2025-2026 UEFA Europa League, Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa lock horns on 2026-04-30 at 20:00 GMT.
Over 2 head-to-head encounters, Unai Emery has 1 win and Vitor Pereira has no wins with 1 draw.
Nottingham Forest misses 9 players: T. Awoniyi (Inactive), W. Boly (Knee Injury), C. Hudson-Odoi (Injury), John Victor (Knee Injury), L. Netz (Inactive), N. Savona (Knee Injury), E. da Silva Moreira (Inactive), Cunha (Injury), Murillo (Muscle Injury) but Aston Villa misses 5 players: Alysson (Injury), R. Barkley (Inactive), B. Kamara (Knee Injury), B. Madjo (Inactive), A. Onana (Injury).
We're predicting Nottingham Forest to deploy a four-at-the-back 4-2-3-1, and Aston Villa are expected to line up in 4-2-3-1.
In their last outing, Nottingham Forest's highest-rated performer was N. Williams (6.6), while Aston Villa's standout was V. Lindelöf (6.9).
Nottingham Forest won 5-0 against Sunderland, while Aston Villa lost their fixture 0-1 vs Fulham.
Both teams have been in great form: Nottingham Forest 3-2-0 and Aston Villa 3-1-1 over their last 5 matches.
Aston Villa lead this rivalry - 7 wins from 14 matches versus Nottingham Forest (who've won just 3 games), alongside 4 draws.
With both sides enjoying similar home/away returns (4-0-3 vs 5-0-1) and scoring roughly 1.86-2.33 goals, a 1-1 draw seems on the cards.
Nottingham is going head to head with Aston Villa on 30/4/2026 19:00 GMT for the Eurocups UEFA Europa League. You can view the match information, lineups, odds, live score, result, goalscorers, cards, substitutions, standings, recent form, player ratings, injuries, tv channels, our users most predicted scores and Nottingham v Aston Villa H2H statistics!