This is the second time this season Porto and Nottingham Forest will meet, with Forest winning 2-0 at the City Ground in October in the group stages.<\/p>\n
Nottingham Forest\u2019s only previous European away game in Portugal was at Sporting Braga in January this season, a game they lost 1-0.<\/p>\n
Porto are competing in their 18th major European quarter-final, though this is their first since 2020-21 in the UEFA Champions League when they lost to Chelsea. In fact, they\u2019ve been eliminated in their last four quarter-final ties since knocking out Spartak Moscow in the 2010-11 UEFA Europa League.<\/p>\n
Nottingham Forest are into their fifth major European quarter-final and first since the 1995-96 UEFA Cup, when they were knocked out by Bayern Munich. They progressed from the other three in 1978-79 and 1979-80 in the European Cup and the 1983-84 UEFA Cup.<\/p>\n
Porto are one of three sides with a 100% home record in the UEFA Europa League this season, along with Aston Villa and Freiburg, winning all five games. Only once have they won six home games in a European season, doing so in 2010-11 on their way to winning the Europa League.<\/p>\n
Nottingham Forest\u2019s win over Porto earlier this season in the UEFA Europa League came under former manager Sean Dyche. The only two instances of English clubs beating a team twice in a major European season under two different managers is Chelsea vs FC Nordsj\u00e6lland in the 2012-13 UEFA Champions League (Di Matteo and Benitez) and Man Utd vs Villarreal in the 2021-22 Champions League (Solskjaer and Carrick).<\/p>\n
Borja Sainz has assisted in each of his last two UEFA Europa League appearances for Porto \u2013 the last Porto player to assist a goal in three major European games in a row was Fredy Guar\u00edn in April\/May 2011 in the Europa League.<\/p>\n
Nottingham Forest manager V\u00edtor Pereira is set to manage against FC Porto for the first time, though he did take charge of two games against FC Porto B in the II Divis\u00e3o S\u00e9rie B in 2005-06 as SC Espinho manager. The only Portuguese manager to face them in the UEFA Europa League is Domingos Paci\u00eancia in the 2011 final with Braga, a game won 1-0 by Porto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This is the second time this season Porto and Nottingham Forest will meet, with Forest winning 2-0 at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124259,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-592719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592719","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=592719"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/592719\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=592719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=592719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=592719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}