Nottingham Forest vs Malmo Preview & Prediction | 2025-26 UEFA Europa League | League Phase
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The 1979 European Cup final saw Nottingham Forest beat Malmo and now the two clubs meet in the league phase of the 2025/26 UEFA Europa League.
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- Nottingham Forest and Malmö have met three times in UEFA competition, most memorably in the 1979 European Cup final, where Forest claimed a 1-0 victory. Their other meetings came in the first round of the 1995/96 UEFA Cup, a tie the English side won on away goals after a 2-1 defeat in Sweden and a 1-0 home success.
- Nottingham Forest have won both of their previous two UEFA competition matches at home against Swedish teams without conceding a goal.
- Nottingham Forest have lost only three of their last 11 UEFA competition matches (W4 D4).
- Nottingham Forest have lost only two of their last 13 UEFA competition matches at home (W8 D3).
- Nottingham Forest have kept ten clean sheets in their last 12 UEFA competition matches at home.
- Malmö have lost each of their last five UEFA competition matches against English opposition, failing to score in four of them.
- Malmö have won only one of their last 24 UEFA competition group/league matches (D4 L19).
Nottingham Forest vs Malmo prediction
Sean Dyche, who has followed Nuno Espirito Santo and Ange Postecoglou in the dugout at the City Ground this season, has sparked a massive improvement from Nottingham Forest. That continued at the weekend as they hammered English champions Liverpool by three goals to nil at Anfield.
Malmo come into this one on the back of a 2-1 defeat of GAIS to finish off the 2025 Allsvenskan season a few weeks ago. That ended a very underwhelming Swedish top-flight campaign as they finished in an underwhelming sixth spot. Their most recent European outing saw them beaten 1-0 by Panathinaikos.
Malmo are an extremely poor side and they are now not even playing competitive domestic football so a comfortable Forest victory is to be expected for this one.
Nottingham Forest vs Malmo tip: Nottingham Forest to win -1 handicap