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EUROPA LEAGUE quarters (away) April 9th 2026
Porto 1
In a thrilling encounter between two erstwhile European giants, Forest survived a bone-shuddering Porto onslaught to take the Portuguese titans back to the City Ground for their day of reckoning.Gomes 11 Nottingham Forest 1 Fernandes (og) 13 After a gut-wrenchingly horrific start, the Tricky Trees looked in for a torrid night as Gomes stabbed the hosts ahead on ten minutes, only for the game to plunge into farce as Fernandes guided the ball past his own keeper from forty yards. With the score standing at 1-1, Fernandes was taken off and shot, while a makeshift Forest made the most of their luck by not doing much. The second half brought coruscating pressure from Vitor Pereira's old side, but it was his new charges who forged ahead after Igor Jesus won the ball from goalkeeper Diogo Costa and scored, only for VAR to rule that Jesus had committed a wholly imaginary hand ball while simultaneously attempting to murder Costa. In the later stages, Forest endured an ordeal so severe it would have broken men of lesser calibre, with Ortega saving a drive from Gomes and Victor Froholdt dragging his shot wide, but the visitors stood firm and should look forward to the City Ground encounter with an overwhelming sense of confidence.
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