Aston Villa 4-0 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Europa League · Thursday 7 May 2026

Result

Aston Villa 4-0 Nottingham Forest

Europa League · Thursday 7 May 2026, 19:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Aston Villa · Nottingham Forest · Europa League predictions

Aston Villa 4-0 Nottingham Forest: match report

Aston Villa won against Nottingham Forest 4-0 in the Europa League on Thursday 7 May 2026. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Ollie Watkins opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Ollie Watkins (36'), Emiliano Buendía (58', penalty), John McGinn (77') and John McGinn (80'). Nottingham Forest did not score.

Discipline: Aston Villa received no yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Aston Villa were 3rd on 33 points from 13 and Nottingham Forest 4th on 27 points from 15. This fixture belongs to an earlier Europa League season and is kept for reference.

Aston Villa lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Emiliano Buendía of Aston Villa (8.8), ahead of John McGinn (8.1).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Aston Villa wins, 2 draws and 3 for Nottingham Forest.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 18'Yellow card · MoratoNottingham Forest
  • 36'Goal · Ollie WatkinsAston Villa · 1-0
  • 45+3'Yellow card · Jair CunhaNottingham Forest
  • 58'Penalty goal · Emiliano BuendíaAston Villa · 2-0
  • 77'Goal · John McGinnAston Villa · 3-0
  • 80'Goal · John McGinnAston Villa · 4-0

Head-to-head

9 meetings: Aston Villa 4, draws 2, Nottingham Forest 3.

Team news

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Aston Villa line-up (4-2-3-1)

Emiliano Martínez, Matty Cash, Ezri Konsa, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Victor Lindelöf, Youri Tielemans, John McGinn, Morgan Rogers, Emiliano Buendía, Ollie Watkins

Nottingham Forest line-up (4-4-1-1)

Stefan Ortega, Jair Cunha, Nikola Milenković, Morato, Neco Williams, Omari Hutchinson, Nicolás Domínguez, Elliot Anderson, James McAtee, Igor Jesus, Chris Wood