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Blackpool boss Ian Holloway has no new injury concerns ahead of the game.
Striker Stephen McPhee and defender Danny Coid both remain sidelined, while Hameur Bouazza is still out because of a groin problem.
MATCH PREVIEW
Leading 2-1 from the first leg, Blackpool travel to the City Ground, where the Lancashire club have not been beaten for 33 years. But Nottingham Forest's form there has been exceptional.
Forest are unbeaten in 20 home matches, having won 17 of them. They have also gone eight home games - more than 12 hours of football - without conceding a goal.
We're going to have to score down there because I think Forest will, truthfully
Blackpool manager Ian Holloway
But Blackpool, the Championship's surprise package, have won three of their last six away matches and have already beaten the Reds three times this term. Saturday's first-leg victory followed home and away against them during the regular season.
They - and Charlie Adam in particular - have been a thorn in the side of Billy Davies' team. Midfielder Adam has scored 18 goals this season and has netted in all three of Blackpool's victories against Forest.
Adam's winner on Saturday gave Blackpool the chance to secure a trip to Wembley and kept their fans dreaming of a place in the top flight, where the club last appeared in 1971. Promotion would also see the Tangerines go from the bottom division to the top in the space of nine years.
Forest, on the other hand, are chasing a return to the Premier League after an 11-year absence and are hoping to reach a play-off final for the first time, having twice tasted defeat in the semi-finals.
They are also hoping to become only the eighth second-tier side to overturn a first-leg deficit in the play-offs. The last four to do so - Crystal Palace in 1996, Sunderland in 1998, Preston in 2001 and West Ham in 2004 - all went on to lose in the final.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
• This will be the 76th meeting of these clubs. Forest have won 28 of the previous matches and Blackpool 25, with 22 drawn.
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• Blackpool are unbeaten in six matches against Forest, whose last victory against them was a 2-0 win at Bloomfield Road in August 2006.
Nottingham Forest
• Forest, who finished the regular season in third place, have won one, drawn one and lost three of their five previous play-off matches.
• The club finishing third have gone on to win promotion to the Premier League via the play-offs on five occasions, including in three of the last four seasons.
• Between them, strikers Dexter Blackstock and Rob Earnshaw have scored 29 of Forest's 71 league and cup goals this season.
Blackpool
• Blackpool, who finished the regular season in sixth place, have won seven of their last nine games, and lost one of 10.
• They scored 74 goals during the regular season, making them the highest scorers competing in this season's play-offs.
• The club finishing sixth have won promotion to the Premier League on four out of 18 occasions, but not since West Ham in 2005.
• Blackpool have won 10, drawn three and lost two of the club's 15 previous matches.
MOST RECENT MEETING
Blackpool 2-1 Nottm Forest (8 May 2010)
Blackpool scorers: Southern 26, Adam (pen) 57.
Forest scorer: Cohen 13.
Source: BBC Sport
Source: BBC Sport