Manchester United vs Nottingham Forest: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head – BBC Sport

Manchester United vs Nottingham Forest: Premier League preview, team news, stats and head-to-head – BBC Sport

  • Manchester United have won six of their seven Premier League home games against Nottingham Forest, with the exception of a 2-1 defeat in December 1994.

  • After the 2-1 win in December 2023, Nottingham Forest will be aiming to win consecutive league games against Manchester United for the first time since April 1992.

  • Manchester United have scored in all 14 Premier League games against Nottingham Forest, joining Swansea City for the best goal rate of 100% against an opponent in the competition.

  • Manchester United have won 3-0 against Leicester and 4-0 against Everton in their last two Premier League home games. Since February 2021, they have not scored more than 3 goals in three consecutive home games in the league, most recently in December 2018 when they won each time.

  • Nottingham Forest’s last two away games in the Premier League saw 3-0 defeats (against Arsenal and Man City). Before that, Nottingham Forest had won five of seven away games (D2). The last time they lost three away games in a row by a margin of more than 3 goals was in April 1968, one of which was 3-0 at Manchester United.

  • Manchester United have won their last four home games in all competitions, scoring at least two goals in each game (12 goals). Ruben Amorim has won both home games as a manager so far – only five managers have won their first three home games with the Red Devils, most recently Ole Gunnar Solskjaer in the 2018/19 season.

  • Ruben Amorim suffered his first defeat as Manchester United manager at Arsenal last time out – the Portuguese has only lost one top-flight game in a row in his career, with Sporting CP in August 2022.

  • Nuno Espírito Santo wants to become only the second Nottingham Forest coach after Fred Earp in the 1909/10 season to win his first two league games against Manchester United.

  • Marcus Rashford scored twice in Man Utd’s 4-0 win over Everton in their final home league game, as many goals as he had in his previous 23 appearances at Old Trafford. His second goal against the Toffees was his 50th home goal in the Premier League.

  • Across all competitions, Bruno Fernandes has been involved in 11 goals in his last ten games at Old Trafford for Man Utd (4 goals, 7 assists) and has been involved in six goals in his last four Premier League games (2 goals, 4). assisted). He has never scored or assisted five consecutive goals in the league at Old Trafford, while Marcus Rashford was the last Man Utd player to do so in total (seven in the 2022/23 season).

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