📏 Form Guide

Nottingham Forest

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Nottingham Forest won’t want a repeat of their last result here after a 4-0 Europa League defeat last time out to Aston Villa.

In that game, Nottingham Forest managed 49% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 2 of them on target. At the other end, Aston Villa got 18 attempts at goal with 10 of them on target. Ollie Watkins (36'), Emiliano Buendía (58') and John McGinn (77', 80') scored for Aston Villa.

Their most recent results really do illustrate the point that things are going according to plan in the Nottingham Forest defence. Nottingham Forest have been stingy, with the number of goals that have gone in at their end over the course of their past 6 matches standing at 3. Previous results aside, we’ll just have to find out if that pattern will be maintained in this next match.

Analysis of their past results shows that Nottingham Forest:

• are winless against Newcastle United in their previous 4 league games.
• haven't been defeated in their previous 3 league matches at home.

Newcastle United

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Newcastle United head into the game following a 3-1 Premier League win as they beat Brighton & Hove Albion in their last fixture.

In that game, Newcastle United had 33% possession and 14 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. For Newcastle United, the goals were scored by Will Osula (12'), Dan Burn (24') and Harvey Barnes (95'). On the other side, Brighton & Hove Albion had 13 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. Jack Hinshelwood (61') scored for Brighton & Hove Albion.

In as many as 5 out of the previous 6 clashes featuring Newcastle United, a minimum of three goals have been hit. The overall average goals scored per game in that time is 3.83, with the number of goals averaged by Newcastle United being 1.33.

Leading up to this clash, Newcastle United:

• have not lost to Nottingham Forest when they have played them away from home in the previous 3 league games.
• have not won away from home in their last 2 league matches.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their past head-to-head meetings stretching back to 26/12/2023 shows us that Nottingham Forest have won 1 of these games and Newcastle United 4, with the tally of drawn results being 1.

A lot of goals were also scored during this period, 24 in total which averages out at 4 goals per meeting.

The last league contest featuring the two was Premier League match day 7 on 05/10/2025 when the final score was Newcastle United 2-0 Nottingham Forest.

In that match, Newcastle United managed 52% possession and 18 shots on goal with 9 of them on target. The goalscorers were Bruno Guimarães (58') and Nick Woltemade (84').

Nottingham Forest had 5 attempts on goal with 4 on target.

The match was refereed by Peter Bankes.

📋 Team News: Nottingham Forest

We are thinking that The Reds look set to use a 3-4-2-1 system this time, handing starts to Matz Sels, Jair Cunha, Nikola Milenkovic, Morato, Neco Williams, Nicolas Dominguez, Elliot Anderson, Luca Netz, Dilane Bakwa, Igor Jesus and Taiwo Awoniyi.

🗞️ Team News: Newcastle United

We’re of the thinking that The Magpies might make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Nick Pope, Kieran Trippier, Malick Thiaw, Sven Botman, Daniel Burn, Sandro Tonali, Bruno Guimaraes, Jacob Murphy, Joseph Willock, Joelinton and William Osula.

🧠 Prediction

We are of the inclination to think that Newcastle United and Nottingham Forest could well both score and end up finding themselves in a fairly even game here.

Let’s see what happens, but it could well be that we end up with scores level. We therefore think that it’s going to be a hard-fought 1-1 score draw after 90 minutes.

Peter Guest, 12:03 10/05/2026