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90+1 min: Bakwa finds some space in the Midtjylland half but runs straight into the referee.
90 min: Five minutes added on. Can Forest find something to take to Denmark?
89 min: Bravo does well to shield the ball out for a goal-kick after Hudson-Odoi had tried to make inroads down Forest’s right. Midtjylland win a throw deep in the Forest half and take their time.
87 min: Midtjylland are camped on the edge of their own box. Hutchinson tries to wriggle through a few bodies and, off balance, sends a cross sailing over the bar.
85 min: It’s very quiet now, just the drums in the away end audible. Sangaré tries his luck from distance and his shot flies over.
83 min: Forest have been punished for their wastefulness. Pereira sends on Bakwa for Aina, who was beaten to that cross by Cho. Anderson leads the response and his shot is deflected off Diao into the side netting. Murillo heads the resulting corner wide.
GOAL! Nottingham Forest 0-1 Midtjylland (Cho 80)
The City Ground falls silent! Midtjylland work it to Diao, whose cross from deep is met by Gue-Sung Cho and his header is directed into the corner past the diving Sels. The away bench spills out into the dugout!
78 min: Hutchinson shows nice skill to lift the ball over Bech at the start of a Forest counter that ends with Gibbs-White recycling the ball. Midtjylland fail to clear properly but Hutchinson’s pass into the area rolls through to Olafsson.
76 min: Diao heads the ball out for a Forest corner and immediately goes down with some cramp. Everyone bunches together in the six-yard box, cutting up the turf nicely. Olafsson strolls out to catch Anderson’s corner.
74 min: Forest can try a different approach with 6ft 7in Lucca in the box. Hudson-Odoi obliges with a cross that’s just too high for the big Italian striker.
72 min: Midtjylland enjoy a spell in the Forest half. Bech’s long throw eventually leads to a corner that comes to nothing. They sense there’s something in this for them.
Kári Tulinius has been watching Celta Vigo v Lyon: “Celta Vigo went ahead in the middle of the first half, and looked in control, restricting Lyon to half-chances and long-range shots. However, then Borja Iglesias, already on a yellow, elbowed Clinton Mata in the head and was sent off. It’s very much been backs-to-the-wall for the Galicians since.”
69 min: Olafsson denies Anderson! The England midfielder twists past Diao and hits a shot right-footed that is too close to the Midtjylland goalkeeper.
Domínguez and Jesus make way for Sangaré and Lucca.
67 min: Hutchinson has a shot deflected up and Jesus heads it goalwards but it’s easy for Olafsson to gather. The rain has, mercifully for everyone, eased.
65 min: The ball stops dead in the puddle that has formed on the centre circle but Gibbs-White can’t make the most of a promising Forest opening. Midtjylland are content to play, slowly, among themselves on the edge of the Forest box. Bak has a shot blocked by Milenkovic’s right boot.
63 min: The Nottingham monsoon is easing, maybe? Forest’s momentum has been scuppered by the weather.
61 min: Midtjylland send Lee on for the stricken Mbabu. He scoops the ball away after Gibbs-White fails to latch on to a pass in the middle. Domínguez then sends a ball across the face and Jesus doesn’t gamble.
There are puddles forming on the pitch. Every hood and umbrella is up in the stands but they’re not making much difference. The tops are off in the away end.
59 min: Midtjylland make two changes. Brumado and Simsir retreat to the relative dry of the dugout, with Uhre and Cho on in their place.
Forest should score after Mbabu pulls up and lets Hudson-Odoi roam free into the area. He pulls it back for Gibbs-White, who lays it off to Hutchinson but Midtjylland get bodies in the way. Both of them should have shot when they had the chance.
56 min: Mbabu tries to break at speed down the right but the ball won’t travel at the same pace on the sodden pitch. Not much else is happening/can happen in this weather.
54 min: You can’t see much through the downpour and its reflection off the floodnights.
53 min: I can’t quite remember seeing rain heavier than this during a football match. Not to mention the wind.
52 min: Out of nothing, Andreasson hits a bouncing shot through the driving rain from distance that Sels scampers over to parry for a corner.
The corner comes out to Andreasson, who pings his shot back off the post!
51 min: Midtjylland are having to weather a storm. Manager Tullberg looks worried and sits down with his tactics board. Gibbs-White tries to flick the ball in Jesus’s direction but it bobbles through to Olafsson. The rain is getting heavier and heavier.
49 min: Murillo plays a flat pass through the middle and Olafsson beats Gibbs-White to it just in time. Hudson-Odoi cuts inside and hits the side-netting.
47 min: Forest make a fast start. Aina runs on to Hutchinson’s cutback in the penalty area and smacks a shot straight at a jumping Gibbs-White in front of him. Domínguez then flashes a cracking effort wide from the edge of the box – it just bends away at the last minute.
Second half begins
Changes for both sides. Forest replace Morato (booked) with Neco Williams and Midtjylland swap out Denil Castillo for Valdemar Byskov Andreason.
The players head back out at the City Ground. On first-half evidence, Forest have it in them to establish a decent lead to take to Denmark next week.
It’s going to plan for Midtjylland so far but they’ve not had a shot since the 3rd minute.
More half-time reading: Barney Ronay on the Premier League’s midweek to forget in the Champions League.
Europa League half-time scores:
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Celta Vigo 1-0 Lyon
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Ferencvaros 1-0 Braga
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Genk 1-0 Freiburg
Conference league half-time scores:
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Crystal Palace 0-0 AEK Larnaca
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Fiorentina 0-0 Rakow Czestochowa
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Celje 0-3 AEK Athens
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Sigma Olomouc 0-0 Mainz
Half-time reading: Ollie Watkins made the difference for Aston Villa in their first leg at Lille earlier this evening.
Both teams have had headers cleared off the line. Murillo kept out Júnior Brumado’s effort in the first few minutes before Philip Billing came to his goalkeeper’s rescue after he came for a corner and Igor Jesus looped one over him.
Forest’s all-Brazilian back three lasted all of nine minutes after Jair Cunha was forced off with an ankle injury.
Half-time: Nottingham Forest 0-0 Midtjylland
Not a classic so far – and not helped by a referee cracking down on everything except some cheeky time-wasting by Midtjylland’s goalkeeper.
45+1 min: Gibbs-White’s cross from the resulting corner is poor and flies behind. Another minute of added time to play.
