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Nottingham Forest<\/b><\/a> striker Chris Wood admits he will have to manage his knee injury for the rest of his life.<\/b><\/p>\n The New Zealand international has returned following six months out and is in line to feature in Forest’s Europa League quarter-final second leg against Porto. <\/p>\n Forest host the Portuguese league leaders on Thursday following last week’s 1-1 draw in Portugal<\/a>, with Wood starting at Estadio do Dragao. <\/p>\n It was his first game since last October, having had knee surgery in December, and the forward knows his knee will never fully recover.<\/p>\n “It’s a knee injury, it’s going to take years of managing throughout my whole career and when I’m playing with kids, playing golf or doing whatever I do after football,” said the 34-year-old. <\/p>\n “It’s going be there. I’d say it’s always got to be in your back of mind that I have to keep myself in top shape ready to go.<\/p>\n “A knee injury is always horrible, you never know what could happen in the future or how you are going to come back from it.<\/p>\n “So mentally, that’s one of the tough things to deal with. But I had confidence I was always going to come back. I got very close to returning pre-surgery and it just didn’t happen. That’s just unfortunate.”<\/p>\n