Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest: Premier League preview, team news, stats & head-to-head

  • Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last eight home league games against Nottingham Forest (W5 D3) since a 2-0 loss in October 1994. They’ve scored at least twice in each of the last seven at Villa Park.

  • Following their 2-1 win at the City Ground in December, Nottingham Forest are looking to complete their first league double over Aston Villa since 1984-85.

  • Aston Villa are unbeaten in their last 14 home Premier League matches (W7 D7) since losing to Arsenal in August. Unai Emery has already had a 17-game unbeaten run at Villa Park between March and December 2023 and could be the first Villa manager since Ron Saunders in 1976-77 (18) and 1980-81 (15) to have two separate runs of 15 unbeaten top-flight home games.

  • Since May 2024, Nottingham Forest have won 10 of their 17 away Premier League matches (D2 L5) – that’s as many as they won in 74 away games in the competition between August 1996 and April 2024 combined (W10 D18 L46).

  • Since losing 2-0 to Arsenal in August, Aston Villa have avoided defeat in all seven home Premier League games when they’ve conceded first (W3 D4). It’s their most wins at Villa Park when conceding first in a single top-flight campaign since 2013-14 (3), and they’ve never done so four times in one Premier League season.

  • Aston Villa have had 225 shots in 15 Premier League matches at Villa Park this season, an average of 15.0 per game, their highest average in the competition since 2003-04 (15.5). Striker Ollie Watkins is averaging 4.1 shots per 90 minutes, the most by a Villa player with 500+ minutes played at home in the top-flight since Juan Pablo Ángel in 2003-04 (4.5).

  • Nottingham Forest’s away win Premier League win percentage this season is 54%, the first time it’s been above 50% in a top-flight season (P15 W8). Their away goals per game ratio (1.73) is their third best in a top-flight season, behind 1909-10 (1.84) and 1988-89 (1.74).

  • In all competitions, Aston Villa’s Marcus Rashford has been involved in seven goals in seven appearances against Nottingham Forest, all while playing for Manchester United (3 goals, 4 assists).

  • Across Aston Villa’s last three home games in all competitions, they’ve scored seven goals and six of them have been scored by Marco Asensio, netting a brace in each game against Chelsea, Cardiff and Club Brugge.

  • Chris Wood has scored three goals in six Premier League starts against Aston Villa, all of which came while playing for Burnley between 2019 and 2021. Away from home, he’s had a hand in 10 goals this season for Nottingham Forest (8 goals, 2 assists) with only Bryan Roy (6 goals, 5 assists in 1994-95) and Stan Collymore (9 goals, 4 assists in 1994-95) scoring and assisting more in a season.

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