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The 5 Forest stars who will miss the Fenerbahce clash this week including Wood and Sels

The 5 Forest stars who will miss the Fenerbache clash this week including Wood and Sels
The 5 Forest stars who will miss the Fenerbache clash this week including Wood and SelsAction Images via Reuters

Nottingham Forest host Fenerbahce in the second leg of their Europa League knockout round play-off tie this week as they miss out on 5 key players.

Nottingham Forest take a 3-0 lead into Thursday's Europa League playoff second leg against Fenerbahce at the City Ground after an impressive first leg. 

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Goals from Murillo, Igor Jesus and Morgan Gibbs-White separate the two sides in what was a perfect start for manager Victor Pereira last week. 

Pereira will be hoping for a similar performance on Thursday night but will be without a number of defensive assets such as Nicolo Savona (knee), John Victor (knee), Willy Boly (knee) and Matz Sels (groin) as the likes of Stefan Ortega, Nikola Milenković and Murillo step in. 

For the first time in European competition, Fenerbahce are suffering from back-to-back home defeats after the loss to Aston Villa and now Forest. 

The Turkish side conceded a crucial late goal in their last league game, drawing 1-1 at home to Kasimpasa on Monday despite taking the lead in the 95th minute. 

Finally, Fenerbahcewill be happy to see Chris Wood (knee) ruled out of the clash but will have to deal with Igor Jesus who is the Europa League’s joint-top goalscorer this season with seven goals. 

Meanwhile, Fenerbahce are without Milan Skriniar (groin), Caglar Soyuncu (muscle), Anderson Talisca, Ederson (both hamstring) and Edson Alvarez (ankle) as their injury crisis continues. 

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