Nottingham Forest vs Sunderland

Sunderland are unbeaten in four Premier League games (W2 D2), while they will end the day in the top four of the top-flight after having played 5+ games for the first time since 30th March 2001.

Nottingham Forest have lost five of their last seven home Premier League games (W1 D1), as many as their previous 22 home matches in the competition (W11 D6 L5).

Sunderland’s 11 points from their opening six Premier League games this season (W3 D2 L1) is their most in a top-flight season at this stage since 1967-68 (also 11 when converting to three points per win), while it’s the most for a newly promoted side after six games in the competition since West Ham United in 2012-13 (also 11).

This will be the first Premier League meeting between Nottingham Forest and Sunderland since the 1996-97 season, when the Tricky Trees lost 4-1 at home and drew 1-1 away that campaign.

Sunderland have won five of their last seven league games against Nottingham Forest (L2), with this their first since a 1-0 Championship victory in December 2017 under Chris Coleman.

Nottingham Forest have lost four of their last six Premier League home games (W1 D1), including a 3-0 loss to West Ham last time out. It’s as many defeats as they’d suffered in their previous 20 at the City Ground (W10 D6).

Sunderland have eight points from their five Premier League games so far this season (W2 D2 L1) – only in 2009-10 (9) have they ever had more at this stage of a campaign in the competition.

80% of Nottingham Forest’s Premier League goals this season have come in the first half, the highest ratio of any side (4/5). Meanwhile, only West Ham (9) have conceded more second half goals than the Tricky Trees (6).