Nottingham Forest 1–0 Aston Villa
- Wood 71' (pen.)
30 April 2026
The match in data
Nottingham Forest beat Aston Villa 1–0 on 30 April 2026, in the 2025-26 Europa League (Semi-finals).
Player of the match: Elliot Anderson (Nottingham Forest), rated 65, thanks above all to 11 final-third passes and 10 recoveries. Anderson produced 1.4 times as much as a midfielder typically does, at 0.6 times the cost.
It was also their best match of the season.
It is their 2nd time as player of the match this season.
For Aston Villa, the highest-rated player was Amadou Onana, with 57.
Elliot Anderson
Nottingham Forest · 90'
Produced 1.38× and cost 0.55× their position's average
- 11 final-third passes 2.0×
- 10 recoveries 2.2×
- 69 passes 1.6×
- 6 misplaced passes 0.9×
- 1 ball lost 1.0×
Match ratings
Everyone who played, sorted by rating. No rating: anyone who played under 20 minutes, and a goalkeeper who did not play the whole match.
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elliot Anderson ★ | Midfielder | 90 | 65 |
| Stefan Ortega | Goalkeeper | 90 | 57 |
| Omari Hutchinson | Midfielder | 90 | 56 |
| Morgan Gibbs-White | Midfielder | 90 | 55 |
| Nicolás Domínguez | Midfielder | 90 | 42 |
| Ola Aina | Defender | 75 | 40 |
| Chris Wood | Forward | 90 | 37 |
| Igor Jesus | Forward | 90 | 32 |
| Morato | Defender | 90 | 32 |
| Nikola Milenković | Defender | 90 | 29 |
| Neco Williams | Defender | 90 | 26 |
| Zach Abbott | Defender | 15 | no rating |
| Ryan Yates | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amadou Onana | Midfielder | 55 | 57 |
| Emiliano Martínez | Goalkeeper | 90 | 54 |
| Matty Cash | Defender | 90 | 48 |
| Morgan Rogers | Midfielder | 90 | 46 |
| Ollie Watkins | Forward | 90 | 45 |
| John McGinn | Midfielder | 79 | 42 |
| Lamare Bogarde | Midfielder | 35 | 40 |
| Youri Tielemans | Midfielder | 90 | 38 |
| Pau Torres | Defender | 90 | 37 |
| Ezri Konsa | Defender | 90 | 36 |
| Lucas Digne | Defender | 78 | 31 |
| Emiliano Buendía | Forward | 79 | 30 |
| Douglas Luiz | Midfielder | 12 | no rating |
| Ian Maatsen | Defender | 11 | no rating |
| Jadon Sancho | Forward | 11 | no rating |
Did you know?
La Lente trivia questions about this match. Tap one to see the answer.
Which Aston Villa player won the most aerial duels?
Morgan Rogers, with 4 aerial duels won. Next: John McGinn 2, Matty Cash 1.
Morgan Rogers led Aston Villa in the air with 4 duels won in the 1–0 defeat at Nottingham Forest. John McGinn followed with 2, while Matty Cash won 1.
Which Nottingham Forest player completed the most dribbles?
Omari Hutchinson, with 6 completed dribbles. Next: Elliot Anderson 1, Morgan Gibbs-White 1.
Omari Hutchinson drove Nottingham Forest's individual play with 6 successful dribbles in the 1–0 win over Aston Villa. Elliot Anderson and Morgan Gibbs-White managed 1 each.
How is the rating calculated?
The rating measures a single match: what the player produced against what they cost, compared with the average for their position in that league and season, and adjusted by position (a 70 for a forward is as hard to get as a 70 for a defender). A normal match is around 50, 70 is already very good and only one in a hundred goes above 80. It is not the NVP, which ranks the whole season.
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