Nottingham Forest have won just one of the last 11 games they played against Aston Villa in the Premier League (D5 L5), but they won this game 2-0 last season.
Aston Villa are without a win in their last five Premier League away games against Nottingham Forest, four of which have finished level (L1). The last win came in January 1995 under coach Brian Little (2 wins, 1 loss).
This will be Nottingham Forest’s 5,000th game in English football’s top four leagues, making them the 12th team in English Football League history to reach that milestone.
Nottingham Forest have won three of their last four home games in the Premier League (L1), equaling their previous 17 games (3 wins, 4 losses, 10 defeats). They have also kept three clean sheets in their last four games, the same number as their 30 in the last competition at the City Ground.
Aston Villa have lost their last three away league games, their longest streak since losing four straight from May to August 2022. All three losses in the current period have been by two or more goals, and the Villains last lost by that much or more in a row. In September 1968, they won the league by a large margin as a second-division team (5).
Nottingham Forest are fifth in the Premier League, but have lost each of their last six Premier League games against teams in the top five, scoring just two goals and conceding 20 goals in their last six games since 1995. We have conceded a point. Until 2024.
Aston Villa won seven of Unai Emery’s first 12 Premier League games against teams placed in the top five in the table (D1 L4) from that date, but have since won seven of their last seven games. They have lost five games (one win, one draw), including all three games this season. Total score 7-0.
Morgan Gibbs-White both scored and provided an assist for Nottingham Forest, who won 3-2 at Old Trafford. It was Forest’s fifth time to have scored and assisted in a Premier League game, making him joint-equal with Ian Warne for the most.
Chris Wood is one of just four players to have scored 10 or more goals in the Premier League this season. He is the first Nottingham Forest player to score ten goals in the Premier League in the pre-Christmas season, and the first Forest player to do so in a league season. Since Lewis Grabban in the Championship in 2021-22.
John Duran, who turns 21 the day before this game, has scored 10 Premier League goals for Aston Villa and has scored the winning goal in four of their seven wins this season. He is one of only three players to score 10 goals for Villa by the age of 21, alongside Gabriel Agbonlahor (13 goals) and Luke Moore (11 goals).
