Midtjylland vs Nottingham Forest: Confirmed teams and full lineups in Europa League

Midtjylland and Nottingham Forest have confirmed their starting teams for their meeting at the MCH Arena in the second leg of the 2025/26 Europa League round of 16.

Guesung Cho’s 80th-minute winner separated the sides at the City Ground, where the Danish side won for the second time this season.

The winners of the tie will meet Porto or Stuttgart in the quarter-finals in April. Those sides meet again at the Estadio do Dragao later on Thursday (20:00 GMT), with the hosts protecting a 2-1 first-leg lead.

101GreatGoals.com has the line-up news from Midtjylland vs Forest in the Europa League, as well as details on how to watch.

Midtjylland confirmed starting team vs Forest

Left-back Paulinho (illness), midfielder Alamari Djabi and forwards Ola Brynhildsen and Franculino (both knee) are injured.

Midtjylland starting XI: Olafsson; Erlic, Bech, Diao; Bak, Byskov, Bravo; Billing; Castillo, Osorio, Brumado

Midtjylland substitutes: Lossl, Ugboh, Lee, Gabriel, Ze, Cho, Gogorza, Chilufya, Uhre, Emefile, Simsir

Nottingham Forest full line up vs Midtjylland

Forest boss Vitor Pereira clearly outlined his priorities by making nine changes from the side that drew with Fulham on Sunday. Only Nikola Milenkovic and Nicolas Dominguez retain their places with the likes of Elliot Anderson and Morgan Gibbs-White being held back for the crunch trip to Tottenham at the weekend.

Goalkeeper John Victor, defenders Willy Boly and Nicolo Savona and striker Chris Wood are out with knee injuries.

Centre-back Jair Cunha has a foot issue and left-back Luca Netz is ineligible.

Nottingham Forest starting XI: Ortega; Morato, Milenkovic, Abbott; Dominguez, Yates, McAtee, Bakwa; Hutchinson, Ndoye, Lucca

Forest substitutes: Sels, Willows, Williams, Murillo, Sangare, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Jesus, Aina, Whitehall, Sinclair, Hanks

Where to watch Midtjylland vs Forest: TV channel, live online streams

Kick-off on Thursday is at 17:45 GMT (12:45 ET / 09:45 PT). In the UK, live coverage is on TNT Sports 2. Streaming is on the Discovery Plus app.

TNT Sports costs £30.99 a month, including Eurosport and entertainment and available on a vast range of devices including smart TVs and gaming consoles. From March 26, TNT Sports streaming will switch from Discovery Plus to HBO Max.

Midtjylland vs Nottingham Forest stats

• Midtjylland have won five of their 10 previous matches against English teams (L3 D2)
• The European last-16 debutants have won one and lost two of their three previous two-legged ties against English clubs
• Only one of their European matches this season has ended in defeat (W12 D2), including six straight home wins featuring five clean sheets
• Seven of their last 10 two-legged European ties have been successful, winning two of the three in which they have prevailed in the first leg away by a one‑goal margin
• Braga (6) are the only team to have kept more clean sheets than Midtjylland (5) in the 2025/26 Europa League
• Forest have won 17 of their 22 previous two-legged European ties
• Their record in their last eight European away matches is W3 D3 L2, but they are on a run of one win in 10 games in all competitions (D4 L5)
• Only Stuttgart (20) can better Forest and Midtjylland’s tallies of 19 goals each in this season’s Europa League
• This is Forest’s first European campaign since they competed in this competition in 1995/96, losing 7-2 on aggregate to Bayern Munich in the last eight
• In their only previous two‑legged European tie in which they lost the first leg at home by a one‑goal margin, Forest knocked out Berliner FC Dynamo in the 1979/80 European Cup quarter‑finals with a 3-1 victory in the away leg