Premier League LIVE: Sunderland vs Nottingham Forest – build-up, team news, stats & head-to-head
This is Sunderland’s first dwelling league sport towards Nottingham Forest since a 1-0 defeat in September 2017, and first within the Premier League since a 1-1 attract March 1997.
Nottingham Forest have misplaced 5 of their final six league video games towards Sunderland, with the exception being a 1-0 win on the Stadium of Light in September 2017.
Nottingham Forest have been overwhelmed 1-0 by Sunderland earlier this season – the one newly promoted groups to do a Premier League double over them are Blackburn and Ipswich in 1992-93 and Fulham in 2022-23.
Sunderland have by no means gained a Premier League sport on a Friday (P3 D2 L1), the one day of the week they’re but to win on. They may very well be the twenty first team to win on all seven days within the competitors.
Nottingham Forest have gained two of their final three Premier League video games (D1), as many as of their earlier 14 mixed (D5 L7). Forest are searching for consecutive wins for the primary time since November once they beat Leeds and Liverpool.
Only Crystal Palace’s Premier League video games (71) have seen fewer objectives this season than Sunderland’s (76), with their 4-3 defeat to Aston Villa final trip making up 9% of the objectives scored in video games involving the Black Cats in 2025-26.
Nottingham Forest are unbeaten of their final 5 Premier League matches (W2 D3), their greatest run of the season. They final had an extended run throughout December and January final season (eight video games).
Vítor Pereira has gained eight of his 13 Premier League matches throughout March and April with Wolves and Nottingham Forest (D4 L1), averaging 2.15 factors per sport. In all different months, he has gained simply 4 out of 26 video games (D4 L18), averaging 0.62 factors per sport.
Chris Rigg turned Sunderland’s third-youngest Premier League scorer of their 4-3 defeat to Aston Villa (18y 305d), behind Michael Bridges (18y 117d) and Connor Wickham (18y 212d). Only Jordan Henderson (23), Julio Arca (15) and Sean Thornton (11) have extra begins as a youngster than Rigg (10).
Morgan Gibbs-White has six objectives in his final six Premier League appearances, as many as he has scored in his earlier 28 video games mixed. He’s averaging a objective each 101 minutes underneath Vítor Pereira, the most effective ratio by any Nottingham Forest participant with 2+ objectives underneath a supervisor within the Premier League.
