Nottingham Forest vs Wolves Matchday Stats Preview

Nottingham Forest vs Wolves Matchday Stats Preview 

Nottingham Forest have won just one of their last 10 league games against Wolves (D4 L5) and are winless in all three against them in the Premier League (D2 L1).

Wolves are unbeaten in their last five away league games against Nottingham Forest (W3 D2), since a 3-1 Championship defeat in March 2013.

No side has lost more Premier League games in 2024 than Nottingham Forest (7), with only Burnley (8) and Sheffield United (7) earning fewer points than Forest so far this calendar year (9).

Following their 3-1 win against Fulham last time out at the City Ground, Nottingham Forest are looking to win consecutive home league games for the first time since a run of four between April and August last year.

Wolves are winless in their last three Premier League games (D1 L2), their joint longest run without a win so far this season. They last had a longer winless run in the same campaign between October and November last season (5).

Wolves have kept just two clean sheets in their last 32 Premier League away games, with both of those coming this season in a 1-0 win at Everton (August) and 0-0 draw at Brighton (January).

Excluding penalties, Nottingham Forest have conceded a league-high 21 goals from set piece situations this season. Meanwhile, Wolves have scored 27% of their goals from set pieces this term (12/44, excluding pens), the third highest ratio in the division after Everton (47%) and Luton (31%).

Since the start of last season, Nottingham Forest have dropped more points from winning positions than any other Premier League side (48).

Chris Wood has scored 12 Premier League goals for Nottingham Forest this season, only ever netting more in the 2019-20 campaign (14 with Burnley). Only against West Ham (7) has he scored more Premier League goals than he has against Wolves (6), with his first ever hat-trick in the competition coming against them in April 2021.

Only Ollie Watkins and Leon Bailey (7) have combined for more Premier League goals this season than Nottingham Forest duo Anthony Elanga and Chris Wood (6). It’s the second most goal combinations for a Forest pair in a single Premier League campaign, after Bryan Roy and Stan Collymore in 1994-95 (7).