Nottingham Forest have won just one of their last 11 Premier League games against Aston Villa (D5 L5), despite winning 2-0 in that very game last season.

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

This will be Nottingham Forest’s 5,000th game 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 home Premier League games (L1), as many as their previous 17 (W3 D4 L10). They have also kept three clean sheets in their last four games, as many as they have kept in their last 30 games at the City Ground in the competition.

Aston Villa have lost each of their last three away games in the league, their longest such streak since the four consecutive defeats from May to August 2022. All three defeats in their current term have come by more than 2 goals – most recently the Villans lost more in a row With such a lead, he was the second division team in the league in September 1968 (5).

Nottingham Forest sit 5th in the Premier League but have lost each of their last six Premier League games when they competed in a game in the top five of the division. In these six defeats since 1995, the team has scored just two goals and conceded 20 goals until 2024.

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

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

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 and he is the first Forest player to achieve this in a league season since Lewis Grabban in the 2021-22 Championship.

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