Forest prevailed in the first leg in Vitor Pereira’s first game.
Nottingham Forest will hope to clinch their place in the last 16 of the Europa League as they face Fenerbahce in the second leg of their play-off round tie.
Forest cruised to a 3-0 win in Turkey last week, marking Vitor Pereira’s first game in charge in style.
They will face either Real Betis or Midtjylland should they get the job done at The City Ground.
101GreatGoals has the team news.
Nottingham Forest team news
With the Reds comfortable in the tie and at home, Pereira has shuffled his pack with Morato, Jair Cunha, Nicolas Dominguez, James McAtee, Ryan Yates and Lorenzo Lucca coming into the XI.
Morgan Gibbs-White, Igor Jesus and Callum Hudson-Odoi are on the bench.
Nottingham Forest: Ortega; Hutchinson, Cunha, Murillo, Morato, Williams; Dominguez, Yates, Anderson, McAtee; Lucca.
Nottingham Forest subs: Abbott, Aina, Bakwa, Gibbs-White, Gunn, Hudson-Odoi, Igor Jesus, Milenkovic, Ndoye, Sangare, Willows.
Fenerbahce team news
Fenerbahce have a huge task to turn the tie around and are not helped by an injury crisis which leaves them only able to name seven substitutes.
Ex-Manchester City goalkeeper Ederson is among those to miss out, along with with Caglar Soyuncu and centre back partner Jayden Oosterwolde, so Matteo Guendouzi drops into backline and Ngolo Kante starts in midfield.
Fenerbahce: Cetin; Muldar, Guendouzi, Demir, Brown; Aydin, Yuksek, Kante; Nene, Cherif, Akturkoglu.
Fenerbahce subs: Asensio, Biterge, Ceylan, Ekici, Mercan, Semedo, Uregen.
Nottingham Forest v Fenerbahce stats
- This is Forest’s first European knockout stage tie since their 1995/96 quarter-final defeat in this competition against eventual champions Bayern, losing 7-2 on aggregate
- Only Ludogorets’ Petar Stanic can match Igor Jesus’s tally of seven goals in this season’s competition
- Forest’s last-gasp 1-0 defeat to Liverpool on Sunday meant they have gone more than 265 minutes without a home goal in all competitions, also drawing 0-0 with Pereira’s former club, Wolves
- Pereira was Fenerbahce boss between 2015 and 2016 and in 2021, leading them to the Turkish Cup final in the first of those spells
- Former Netherlands striker Pierre van Hooijdonk played for both clubs, scoring 36 league goals in just over two seasons with Forest to help the club earn promotion to the Premier League in 1997/98 before top-scoring for Fenerbahce in 2003/04 with 24 league goals as they won the Turkish title
- Both of Fenerbahce’s defeats across their last 13 matches in all competitions have come against English clubs, also losing 1-0 at home to Aston Villa on January 22
- Talisca and Kerem Akturkoglu have accounted for eight of Fenerbahce’s 10 goals in this season’s Europa League, each scoring four times
- The absent Talisca’s total of 13 attempts on target is the most of any player involved
- Only Lyon (61.4%) have averaged more possession in the 2025/26 Europa League than Fenerbahce (59.2%)
- Bologna (29) and Young Boys (22) are the only teams to have been adjudged offside more often than Fenerbahce (21)
