The Premier League game at The City Ground on Sunday will see home team Nottingham Forest welcome opponents Manchester United.
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Nottingham Forest won’t want a repeat of their last result here following the 2-0 Premier League loss in their previous game against Aston Villa.
In that match, Nottingham Forest managed 35% possession and 6 attempts on goal with 2 of them on target. For their opponents, Aston Villa got 8 shots at goal with 3 of them on target. Bertrand Traoré (48') and Ollie Watkins (95') scored for Aston Villa.
It has not been often in recent games where Nottingham Forest haven’t conceded. In fact, Nottingham Forest have seen their defence breached in 6 of their previous 6 matches, letting in 12 goals during that time.
Their prior results show that Nottingham Forest:
- have not registered a win against Manchester United in their last 7 matches in the league.
- are without a home win in the past 4 league games. That's never good.
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In their last game, Manchester United drew 2-2 in the Europa League match with Sevilla.
In that game, Manchester United managed 55% possession and 12 attempts at goal with 5 of them on target. For Manchester United, goals were scored by Marcel Sabitzer (14', 21'), Tyrell Malacia (84' Own goal) and Harry Maguire (92' Own goal). On the other side, Sevilla got 13 shots on goal with 3 of them on target.
In the course of their six latest matches, Erik ten Hag's Manchester United have found the net 9 times thus giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.5.
Looking at the pre-match facts, Manchester United:
- are undefeated by Nottingham Forest in away games against them for the last 5 league games. A very good record, indeed.
- are without an away win for the past 2 league games.
Head to head
A quick look at past results between these clubs going back to 26/12/1996 shows that these encounters have been disappointments for Nottingham Forest. They have not been able to get themselves any wins at all while Manchester United have simply been better than them, winning in 100% of those matches played.
There were also goals galore in those games, with 24 in total at an average of 4 goals per meeting.
Team News: Nottingham Forest
Cheikhou Kouyaté (Hamstring Injury), Willy Boly (Hamstring Injury), Chris Wood (Hamstring Injury) and Giulian Biancone (Knee Injury) won’t be available for Nottingham Forest manager Steve Cooper.
In our view, The Reds will possibly use a 4-3-1-2 system for this game, handing starts to Keylor Navas, Neco Williams, Joe Worrall, Felipe, Harry Toffolo, Danilo, Remo Freuler, Orel Mangala, Morgan Gibbs-White, Brennan Johnson and Taiwo Awoniyi.
Team News: Manchester United
Manchester United boss Erik ten Hag has multiple availability issues to deal with. Lisandro Martínez (Hand fracture), Marcus Rashford (Unknown Injury), Alejandro Garnacho (Ankle Injury) and Donny van de Beek (Knee Injury) are not ready for selection.
We are inclined to think that The Red Devils will likely utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with David De Gea, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Harry Maguire, Luke Shaw, Tyrell Malacia, Casemiro, Bruno Fernandes, Antony, Marcel Sabitzer, Jadon Sancho and Wout Weghorst.
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