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Nottingham Forest take on FC Porto in the first leg of their Europa League quarter final on Thursday.

Vitor Pereira’s men edged past FC Midtjylland on penalties in the round of 16 and they head to the Estádio do Dragão for Thursday’s quarter-final first leg.

Here’s everything you need to know ahead of Thursday’s clash…

Kick-off time in the UK

8pm, Thursday April 9

How to watch in the UK

TNT Sports 1

Streaming on HBO Max

Injuries and suspensions

Porto: Samu (out), de Jong (out), Perez (doubt), Mora (doubt).

Nottingham Forest: Anderson (suspended), Wood (doubt), Hutchinson (doubt), Aina (doubt), Cunha (out), Boly (out), Savona (out), John (out).

Predicted line-ups

Porto (4-3-3): D Costa; A Costa, Bednarek, Kiwior, Sanusi; Froholdt, Varela, Fofana; Gomes, Moffi, Sainz.

Nottingham Forest: (4-2-3-1): Sels; Williams, Milenkovic, Murillo, Morato; Sangare, Dominguez; Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi; Jesus.

Recent form

Porto have lost once in their previous 11 games, with the Portuguese side drawing with Famalicao in Liga Portugal in their last match.

Nottingham Forest secured a priceless 3-0 victory over relegation rivals Tottenham in their last fixture just before the international break. The Midlands side have not played since.

What’s been said?

Porto manager Francesco Farioli: “We are at the beginning of April in a position that everyone would have accepted a few months ago: first place in the league, in the Europa League quarter-finals, and in the semi-finals of the Portuguese Cup. We have the chance to win all three competitions.”

Nottingham Forest head coach Vitor Pereira on Chris Wood’s return: “He is working with us. We need to manage him a little bit physically but he has travelled.

“It means he is available to be in the squad tomorrow. He is an experienced player, he scores goals and it is important to be ready to help the team in this moment because we will face a lot of challenges.”