How to watch Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa, team news, predicted line-ups and more | OneFootball

Nottingham Forest take on Aston Villa in the first leg of the Europa League semi-final, in an all-Premier League affair.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of the game…

Kick-off time

8pm UK time, Thursday April 30

How to watch in the UK

TNT Sports 1/TNT Sports Ultimate

Streaming on HBO Max

Injuries and suspensions

Nottingham Forest: Callum Hudson-Odoi (out), Murillo (out), John Victor (out), Nicolo Savona (out), Willy Boly (out), Luca Netz (ineligible), Jair Cunha (doubt)

Aston Villa: Boubacar Kamara (out), Alysson (out), Amadou Onana (doubt)

Predicted line-ups

Nottingham Forest (4-4-2): Ortega; Aina, Milenkovic, Morato, Williams; Hutchinson, Sangare, Anderson, Gibbs-White; Wood, Jesus

Aston Villa (4-2-3-1): Martinez; Cash, Konsa, Mings, Maatsen; Bogarde, Tielemans; McGinn, Rogers, Buendia; Watkins

Recent form

Nottingham Forest have been in brilliant form and have not lost in any competition since March 12. They are also five points above 18th-placed Tottenham in the race for Premier League safety.

Aston Villa are also in good form, and are unbeaten in six of their last eight games in all competitions. They have scored eight goals in their last three games, with Ollie Watkins on the scoresheet three times.

What’s been said?

Nottingham Forest boss Vitor Pereira: “If we want to put our names in the history of this club we need to get to the final and win it. Of course Brian Clough is an inspiration for us. This week I went into the city and saw a big statue of him. I’m not thinking about a statue, but we can imagine what he did for this city.”

Aston Villa manager Unai Emery: “How we are alive in this moment in this competition and how we’ve been performing is fantastic. But now in the semi-final it’s 50-50 for both teams and very important for both teams. Nottingham Forest have history in Europe winning the Champions League and we have our history as well but not recently. Recently we want both teams to keep doing something important in Europe.”