Premier League LIVE: Nottingham Forest beat Aston Villa after Arsenal 0-0 Everton, Liverpool 2-2 Fulham, Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa – radio and text

Nottingham Forest have won just one of their last 11 Premier League games against Aston Villa (D5 L5), although it was a 2-0 victory in this very game last season.

Aston Villa are winless in their last five Premier League away games against Nottingham Forest, although four of these have ended level (L1). Their last such win was in January 1995 under Brian Little (2-1).

This will be Nottingham Forest’s 5,000th. match in the top four tiers of English football, the 12th team to reach this milestone in the history of the English Football League.

Nottingham Forest have won three of their last four Premier League home games (L1), as many as their previous 17 previously (W3 D4 L10). They have also kept three clean sheets in the last four, as many as they had in their previous 30 at the City Ground in the competition.

Aston Villa have lost each of their last three away league games, their longest run since losing four in a row from May to August 2022. All three defeats in their current term have been by 2+ goals – the Villans last lost more in a row. with such a margin away in the league in September 1968 as a second tier side (5).

Nottingham Forest are 5th in the Premier League but have lost each of their last six Premier League games going into a game in the top five of the division, scoring just twice and conceding 20 goals across these six defeats spanning from 1995 to 2024.

Aston Villa won seven of their first 12 Premier League games under Unai Emery against teams that started the day in the top five of the table (D1 L4) but have since lost five of their last seven (W1 D1), including all three in this season with an overall score of 7-0.

Morgan Gibbs-White both scored and assisted in Nottingham Forest’s 3-2 win at Old Trafford, the fifth time he has scored and assisted in a Premier League game for Forest, the joint-most of any player with Ian Woan.

Chris Wood is one of only four players to have scored more than 10 Premier League goals this season – he is the first Nottingham Forest player to score 10 Premier League goals in a season before Christmas, while is the first Forest player to do so in a league season. since Lewis Grabban in the Championship in 2021-22.

Jhon Durán – who turns 21 the day before this game – has scored 10 Premier League goals for Aston Villa, netting the winner in four of their seven wins this season. He is one of three players to score 10 goals for Villa before turning 21, along with Gabriel Agbonlahor (13) and Luke Moore (11).