Kick-off: 17:45 GMT, ThursdayTV: TNT Sports 3<\/p>\n
The Vitor Pereira era at Nottingham Forest begins with a trip to Fenerbahce for the first leg of the Europa League play-off round. <\/p>\n
He\u2019s the fourth permanent manager at the City Ground this season and we\u2019re only in February. It\u2019s a Premier League<\/a> record. <\/p>\n Forest started the season with Nuno Espirito Santo. He guided the side to a 7th place finish last season playing counter-attacking football to great effect. <\/p>\n He lasted until the start of September before he was replaced by Ange Postecoglou. <\/p>\n Ange\u2019s stint in the hot seat only lasted eight games and his all-out-attack approach didn\u2019t muster a single win (D2 L6). <\/p>\n Forest then turned to the more pragmatic Sean Dyche. He was tasked with keeping Forest in the top flight and was on track to do so. <\/p>\n Dyche also proved a dab hand in Europe, winning four of his six games on the continent (D1 L1) to finish 13th in the group stage. <\/p>\n Now it\u2019s Pereira\u2019s turn. <\/p>\n He inherits a team in the thick of a relegation battle domestically, so after a 30 year absence from European competitions it feels like Thursday\u2019s fixture and this competition in general is a bit of an unwelcome distraction. Retaining their top flight status remains the priority. <\/p>\n The new manager will obviously want to get off to a good start but from a betting point of view, it feels like the traditional markets are a no go. <\/p>\n Besides, this is a battle between the most carded side in the competition, Fenerbahce, and the seventh most carded side in Forest, and there is a favourable referee overseeing proceedings. <\/p>\n Sandro Scharer is the man in the middle and he has averaged 4.3 cards a game in the Europa League. He flashed eight in his last game and five in the game before so there should be a few on Thursday evening. <\/p>\n At 3\/1, NELSON SEMEDO<\/a>\u2019s price TO BE CARDED is the standout. <\/p>\n He\u2019s picked up seven in the Turkish Super Lig and two in this competition and has a cards per 90 average of 0.26 in Europe. <\/p>\n Odds correct at 10:00 GMT (18\/02\/26)<\/p>\n More from Sporting LifeSafer gambling<\/p>\n We are committed in our support of safer gambling. Recommended bets are advised to over-18s and we strongly encourage readers to wager only what they can afford to lose.<\/p>\n If you are concerned about your gambling, please call the National Gambling Helpline \/ GamCare<\/a> on 0808 8020 133.<\/p>\n Further support and information can be found at begambleaware.org<\/a> and gamblingtherapy.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kick-off: 17:45 GMT, ThursdayTV: TNT Sports 3 The Vitor Pereira era at Nottingham Forest begins with a trip…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":306994,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[61,60,112],"class_list":{"0":"post-306993","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/306994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}