On Saturday afternoon, Nottingham Forest's head coach Nuno Espirito Santo will welcome Wolverhampton Wanderers, his previous team, to the City Ground for a Premier League match.
Last season, both teams were unable to split their two score draws, which included a thrilling 2-2 tie at the City Ground in April.
Following a 1-1 draw with Bournemouth on the first weekend of the Premier League season, Nottingham Forest secured their first three points last Saturday when they defeated Southampton 1-0 on the road behind a goal from Morgan Gibbs-White in the second half.
But the Tricky Trees have subsequently lost 4-3 on penalties to Newcastle United on Wednesday after a 1-1 draw at the City Ground, and they are out of the EFL Cup in the second round.
Summertime acquisition Joe Willock of Newcastle opened the scoring with an 18-second volley five minutes into Jota Silva's full debut. However, two horrendous spot shots from Taiwo Awoniyi and Ibrahim Sangare ultimately proved costly in the shootout.
Nuno, nevertheless, is focused on maintaining the team's winning streak in the Premier League after taking heart from his team's comeback against Newcastle. Forest previously avoided loss in their first three top-flight games of a new season in 1995–96, finishing ninth in that year.
Forest have endured a torrid time against Wolves in the recent past with the team registering only one win in their last 11 league encounters against them, the last being a 2-0 victory for the home side when this duo was playing in the Championship Football league in January, 2018.
Wolves are one of five teams in the English Premier League that have not earned a single point in the new season, having lost to Arsenal and Chelsea from London in the first two games, and having fallen 6-2 to Chelsea at home the previous week.
Wolves’ first-half could have matched City in terms of goals, but Matheus Cunha equalized for Wolves early in the second half and Jorgen Strand Larsen equalize it again for City after some defensive blunders from the Wolves team, but an impressive performance from Noni Madueke helped the blues to score three goals in the space of 14 minutes till Joao Felix doubled the teams lead 10 minutes from time.
No team other than the teams that were relegated from the English Premier League last season has lost as many games in the English top tier since the start of 2023-24 season as the Wolves (20), and the team has won only once in the 19 Premier League games played in the month of August since their promotion to the English top flight at the start of 2019-20 season: (D8, L10).
Gary O’Neil wanted a reaction from his Wanderers side during the EFL Cup second-round clash with Burnley on Wednesday and after making 10 changes, he was not left disappointed as Goncalo Guedes fired them into the third round with a 2-0 win to setup a tie against Brighton & Hove Albion.
Notts Forest may have lost their last five Premier League matches and conceded a total of 18 goals in them, however, Wolves have not been defeated in the last six away league fixtures against the hosts, having won three and drawn three of them.
Danilo, a midfielder for Nottingham Forest who broke his ankle on the first weekend of the season, will not play. Ryan Yates will be evaluated prior to kickoff after missing the midweek EFL Cup loss due to sickness.
fresh signee In midweek, Alex Moreno, who is on loan from Aston Villa, made his Forest debut as one of four players. He is expected to start at left defense once more, ahead of Ola Aina, while Nikola Milenkovic and Murillo may be called up to play center back.
