Nottingham Forest vs Midtjylland Preview & Prediction | 2025-26 UEFA Europa League | Round of 16
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Nottingham Forest are in a Premier League relegation battle but should go deep in the UEFA Europa League as they now welcome Midtjylland to the City Ground.
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How to watch on TV: UK – TNT Sports / US – Not televised
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Key stats
- These teams have already met once in this season’s UEFA Europa League, with Midtjylland winning 3–2 in Nottingham on Matchday 2. That remains their only previous encounter, and it is also Nottingham Forest’s sole UEFA meeting with a Danish club.
- Nottingham Forest have won 17 of their 22 previous UEFA two-legged ties.
- Nottingham Forest lost the first leg in only four of their 22 previous UEFA two-legged ties (W15 D3).
- Nottingham Forest have won only one of their last eight matches in all competitions (D3 L4).
- Nottingham Forest are playing their first UEFA campaign since the 1995/96 UEFA Cup, when they reached the quarter‑finals but were eliminated 7-2 on aggregate by Bayern Munich.
- Midtjylland have lost only three of their nine previous UEFA matches against English teams (W4 D2).
- Midtjylland have won one and lost two of their three previous UEFA two-legged ties against English teams.
- Midtjylland are in the last 16 of a UEFA competition for the first time in their history.
- Midtjylland have lost only one of their 14 previous UEFA matches this season (W11 D2).
- Midtjylland have kept seven clean sheets in their last 11 UEFA matches.
- Midtjylland have won seven of their last ten UEFA two-legged ties.
- Midtjylland have lost the first leg in only two of their last 11 UEFA two-legged ties.
- Midtjylland have lost only one of their last 13 matches in all competitions (W8 D4).
Nottingham Forest vs Midtjylland prediction
Vitor Pereira has got some brilliant results in charge of Nottingham Forest, with a 3-0 hammering of Fenerbahce in the first-leg of their UEFA Europa League knockout playoff round and a 2-2 draw with Manchester City at the Etihad Stadium but they have also suffered defeats to Liverpool and Brighton and Hove Albion, as well as in the second-leg of that eventual 4-2 aggregate victory of the Turkish giants a few weeks ago.
They now face a Midtjylland side that shared a 1-1 draw with AGF in the Danish Superliga at the weekend, meaning that they are now unbeaten in seven matches since returning from their mid-season winter break.
Midtjylland qualified in unconvincing fashion last summer but were excellent in the league phase and should be backed to exploit Forest, as they did with a 3-2 win against the hosts when under the management of Ange Postecoglou in the early autumn, but the hosts do remain favourites for this first-leg.
Nottingham Forest vs Midtjylland tip: Nottingham Forest to win & both teams to score
