{"id":434132,"date":"2026-02-19T12:31:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:31:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434132\/"},"modified":"2026-02-19T12:31:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-19T12:31:08","slug":"fenerbahce-vs-nottingham-forest-uefa-europa-league-stats-head-to-head","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/434132\/","title":{"rendered":"Fenerbah\u00e7e vs Nottingham Forest: UEFA Europa League stats &#038; head-to-head"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Fenerbah\u00e7e will face Nottingham Forest for the first time in European action in this tie, while they\u2019ve won just one of their last nine matches against English sides (D2 L6 \u2013 inc. qualifiers).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">This is the first knockout tie between English and Turkish opponents since the 2014-15 UEFA Europa League last 32, when Liverpool faced Besiktas. Both teams won 1-0 at home across the two legs, with Besiktas progressing after a penalty shootout win.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Fenerbah\u00e7e have lost the first leg in four of their last six major European knockout ties (W2). In fact, they\u2019ve never progressed from a major European tie when they have lost the first leg, going out on all 26 occasions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Nottingham Forest have netted 15 goals in eight UEFA Europa League matches this season \u2013 only in their 1978-79 victorious European Cup campaign have scored more in a major European season (19 in 9 games).<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-6ddzdq-FactCard e1essogq2\">Igor Jesus has scored six goals for Nottingham Forest in the UEFA Europa League this season, the joint most by a Forest player in a major European season along with Garry Birtles in the 1978-79 European Cup (6 in 9 games). The last Brazilian to score more in a UEFA Europa League campaign was Giuliano for Zenit in 2016-17 (8).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fenerbah\u00e7e will face Nottingham Forest for the first time in European action in this tie, while they\u2019ve won&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":434133,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[218,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-434132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-football","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434132"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434132\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/434133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}