Latest Nottingham Forest news as Sean Dyche’s Reds prepare to face Malmo in Europa League clash at the City Ground
18:54, 27 Nov 2025Updated 19:08, 27 Nov 2025
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Nottingham Forest head coach Sean Dyche(Image: PA)
Head coach Sean Dyche has named his Nottingham Forest team to face Malmo in this evening’s Europa League clash.
The Reds are aiming to make it three wins in a row in all competitions as they look to continue their revival under Dyche. Since the 54-year-old replaced Ange Postecoglou at the helm last month he has overseen just one defeat in six games.
Reigning champions Liverpool were toppled at the weekend as Forest made it successive victories in the Premier League. Goals from Murillo, Nicolo Savona and Morgan Gibbs-White clinched an impressive 3-0 triumph.
Gibbs-White is absent for tonight’s re-run of the 1979 European Cup final, however. He sustained a small injury ‘issue’ ahead of the game and has been added to a significant absentee list for the Reds.
Even before losing the club’s No.10, Dyche was already without a number of key players. Chris Wood, Dilane Bakwa, Douglas Luiz, Oleksandr Zinchenko, Taiwo Awoniyi, Angus Gunn, Aaron Bott and Ola Aina all remain sidelined.
Dyche has made seven changes to his starting XI from Saturday. John Victor, Morato, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Arnaud Kalimuendo, Ryan Yates, James McAtee and Zach Abbott have come in for Matz Sels, Savona, Neco Williams, Elliot Anderson, Dan Ndoye, Gibbs-White and Igor Jesus.
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Abbott and Morato will take up the full-back spots either side of Nikola Milenkovic and Murillo ahead of goalkeeper John. Yates will join Ibrahim Sangare in midfield.
Dominguez looks likely to operate out wide once again, with McAtee in the No.10 role and Hudson-Odoi on the opposite flank. They will provide attacking support for Kalimuendo. The bench will be made up of Sels, Williams, Keehan Willows, Anderson, Ndoye, Jesus, Willy Boly, Savona, Archie Whitehall, Kalum Thompson and Jimmy Sinclair.
Forest: John; Abbott, Milenkovic, Murillo, Morato; Yates, Sangare; Hudson-Odoi, McAtee, Dominguez; Kalimuendo. Subs: Sels, Willows, Williams, Anderson, Ndoye, Jesus, Boly, Savona, Whitehall, Thompson, Sinclair.
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