Nottingham Forest vs Manchester United: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head
Nottingham Forest have won their last three league games against Manchester United, last winning four consecutively against the Red Devils between February 1909 and September 1910.
Manchester United have lost their last two away league games against Nottingham Forest, last losing three in a row at the City Ground between August 1965 and October 1967.
Nottingham Forest have lost six of their last seven Premier League matches (D1), including the last four in a row without scoring. Forest haven’t lost five in a row since October 2022, while they last suffered five league defeats in a row without a goal back in January 2004 in the second tier.
Manchester United have won their last three Premier League matches, their best winning run in one season since a run of four in February 2024. The Red Devils were one of three sides to win 100% of their games in October, along with Arsenal and Aston Villa.
Nottingham Forest scored three goals from seven shots in the first half of their opening Premier League match this season against Brentford (43% conversion). In their 17 halves of football since then, they have scored just two goals from 93 shots (2%).
From MD3 onwards, only Arsenal (16) have picked up more Premier League points than Manchester United (15 – W5 L2), while the Red Devils are the leading scorers in the division in that time (14).
Sean Dyche has seen his teams fail to score in 10 of his last 14 Premier League games in charge (9/13 with Everton, 1/1 with Nottingham Forest). Among managers to take charge of 150+ games in Premier League history, Dyche has the lowest goals per game ratio (323 goals in 334 games, 0.97 per game).
Only Erling Haaland (19 goals, 3 assists) and Mohamed Salah (15 goals, 7 assists) have been involved in more Premier League goals in 2025 than Bryan Mbeumo (14 goals, 6 assists), with Mbeumo scoring or assisting in each of his last three games for Man Utd (3 goals, 1 assist).
Nottingham Forest played 16.9% of their passes long in Sean Dyche’s first Premier League match in charge on MD9, far higher than their average under Ange Postecoglou (8.5%). Goalkeeper Matz Sels played 25 long passes versus Bournemouth, the most by a Forest player in a game this season.
Matheus Cunha notched his first Premier League goal for Man Utd last time out against Brighton. The Brazilian has been involved in seven goals in his last four appearances against sides starting the day in the relegation zone (3 goals, 4 assists), all for Wolves between April 2024 and April 2025.
