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 64, 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.
For Aston Villa, the highest-rated player was Amadou Onana, with 56.
Elliot Anderson
Nottingham Forest · 90'
Produced 1.39× and cost 0.58× 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 | 64 |
| Stefan Ortega | Goalkeeper | 90 | 56 |
| Omari Hutchinson | Midfielder | 90 | 55 |
| Morgan Gibbs-White | Midfielder | 90 | 50 |
| Nicolás Domínguez | Midfielder | 90 | 41 |
| Chris Wood | Forward | 90 | 39 |
| Ola Aina | Defender | 75 | 39 |
| Igor Jesus | Forward | 90 | 32 |
| Morato | Defender | 90 | 31 |
| Nikola Milenković | Defender | 90 | 28 |
| Neco Williams | Defender | 90 | 25 |
| Zach Abbott | Defender | 15 | no rating |
| Ryan Yates | Midfielder | 1 | no rating |
| Player | Position | Min | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amadou Onana | Midfielder | 55 | 56 |
| Emiliano Martínez | Goalkeeper | 90 | 52 |
| Matty Cash | Defender | 90 | 47 |
| Ollie Watkins | Forward | 90 | 47 |
| Morgan Rogers | Midfielder | 90 | 41 |
| John McGinn | Midfielder | 79 | 41 |
| Lamare Bogarde | Midfielder | 35 | 39 |
| Youri Tielemans | Midfielder | 90 | 38 |
| Ezri Konsa | Defender | 90 | 35 |
| Pau Torres | Defender | 90 | 34 |
| Emiliano Buendía | Forward | 79 | 32 |
| Lucas Digne | Defender | 78 | 29 |
| 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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