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

In all competitions, Arsenal has won its last six home games against Nottingham Forest by a global score of 19-2. The Gunners have been undefeated in 14 home games against the forest (W10 D4) since a 3-1 defeat in March 1989.

Nottingham Forest won only two of the 16 Premier League matches against Arsenal (D4 L10) and the two victories came to City Ground, in 1996-97 and 2022-23.

The four -game arsenal game race ended with their defeat against Liverpool on MD3 – the Gunners have not lost consecutive matches in the competition since December 2023.

Nottingham Forest has lost five of his last 11 Premier League games (W3 D3), only one less than in their 24 previous games (W15 D3 L6).

Among the current teams of the Premier League, only Fulham (12 years old) are longer without white leaf than the Nottingham forest (11); Far from his home, Forest has disappeared nine without laundering since he kept three consecutive in December and January last season.

Arsenal ranks second, behind Chelsea, for the expected goals of set games (2.34), but they ranked second, in front of only Sunderland, for the goals expected in open game (1.54). 50.1% of their XG came from defined games, the highest ratio in division.

Two of the three sides to do the most intense pressures in the last third of this season are Nottingham Forest (301, 2nd) and Arsenal (280, 3rd), with attackers Viktor Gyökeres (76, 2nd) and Chris Wood (72, 3rd) also in the first three among the players of this metric.

Nottingham Forest made the most passes ending in the last third of the season (471) and played the most passes in the box (114) of any team. Forest is also at the top of the Cross cards (85) in 2025-26, with their average of 28.3 per match much higher than their average last season (16.3 per match).

Arsenal striker, Viktor Gyökeres, scored 10 goals in his last seven appearances at the Home League for Sporting and the Gunners, marking a splint during his first appearance to the Emirates against Leeds. The only two players to score two or more goals during their first two home appearances in the Premier League are David Hirst in August 1992 and Sergio Agüero in August / September 2011.

Elliot Anderson of Nottingham Forest carried out the most revolutionary passes of any midfielder in the Premier League this season (32), while only Alex Iwobi (5) has made more revolution passes in the opposition penalty zone than Anderson (4).