Porto vs Nottingham Forest: UEFA Europa League stats & head-to-head
This is the second time this season Porto and Nottingham Forest will meet, with Forest successful 2-0 on the City Ground in October within the group phases.
Nottingham Forest’s solely earlier European away sport in Portugal was at Sporting Braga in January this season, a sport they misplaced 1-0.
Porto are competing of their 18th main European quarter-final, though that is their first since 2020-21 within the UEFA Champions League after they misplaced to Chelsea. In reality, they have been eradicated of their final 4 quarter-final ties since knocking out Spartak Moscow within the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League.
Nottingham Forest are into their fifth main European quarter-final and first because the 1995-96 UEFA Cup, after they had been knocked out by Bayern Munich. They progressed from the opposite three in 1978-79 and 1979-80 within the European Cup and the 1983-84 UEFA Cup.
Porto are certainly one of three sides with a 100% house file within the UEFA Europa League this season, together with Aston Villa and Freiburg, successful all 5 video games. Only as soon as have they gained six house video games in a European season, doing so in 2010-11 on their solution to successful the Europa League.
Nottingham Forest’s win over Porto earlier this season within the UEFA Europa League got here below former supervisor Sean Dyche. The solely two situations of English golf equipment beating a group twice in a significant European season below two totally different managers is Chelsea vs FC Nordsjælland within the 2012-13 UEFA Champions League (Di Matteo and Benitez) and Man Utd vs Villarreal within the 2021-22 Champions League (Solskjaer and Carrick).
Borja Sainz has assisted in every of his final two UEFA Europa League appearances for Porto – the final Porto participant to help a purpose in three main European video games in a row was Fredy Guarín in April/May 2011 within the Europa League.
Nottingham Forest supervisor Vítor Pereira is ready to handle in opposition to FC Porto for the primary time, though he did take cost of two video games in opposition to FC Porto B within the II Divisão Série B in 2005-06 as SC Espinho supervisor. The solely Portuguese supervisor to face them within the UEFA Europa League is Domingos Paciência within the 2011 closing with Braga, a sport gained 1-0 by Porto.
