There should be a notable gulf in performance between these teams based on the league table so far, with Liverpool ahead of Nottingham Forest by 10 points.
- Liverpool have the most points from losing position (10) in Premier League
- Liverpool have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Nottingham Forest have scored away.
Only a few days to rest for the home team, as they performed in a Europa League match only three days back. This match was also played here at Anfield. With two consecutive home games the intense schedule is somewhat softened. Still, Nottingham Forest have had more rest.
Liverpool form and stats
Liverpool have collected 12 points from their Premier League home games so far after 4-0-0. Ever since the hometeam_home_prestreak_win game Liverpool has been unbeatable here at Anfield producing four straight wins.
Liverpool's previous match was a Europa League game also played at home, finishing 5-1 against Toulouse. The home side hope to to repeat that performance. Midfield player Gravenberch got a match rating of 8.55 in that game, the max score being 10. Gravenberch scored one goal, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 3 of 3 times and had 26 successful passes (of 27 total).
Ahead of that match, Liverpool won a home game hosting Everton (2-0).Liverpool are traveling soon after this match as the Carabao Cup match at AFC Bournemouth awaits in three days.
Goals are plentiful at Anfield in the league this season as Liverpool has scored 11 goals here in 4 home games. From these home matches, Liverpool have conceded only 2 goals.
Nottingham Forest form and stats
1 win, 1 draw and 3 losses. That’s the product of Nottingham Forest playing as the away team in the Premier League this season. The last three matches for Nottingham Forest have all ended in a draw.
There were no winners in Nottingham's previous match, the home game that ended 2-2 vs Luton Town (placed 17th). It looked so good for Nottingham Forest vs Luton Town, but the job was not completed and victory was lost as a 2-0 lead was turned into a 2-2 draw. Wood, attacking player, was the top performer on the team in that game, scoring a match rating of 9.02. Wood scored two goals and hit one key pass.
Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Crystal Palace.As mentioned above, the bookmakers do not believe the away team will get anything from this match. Checking Nottingham Forest's match history for similar games we find 4 matches. The home team won 4 of these as expected, 2 of them by at least two goals. Nottingham Forest managed 0 draws and 0 surprise wins.
The visitors have scored 4 goals from 5 away games in the league, an average of less than one per game. Nottingham have conceded 7 goals in these away matches.
Head 2 Head
Liverpool-Nottingham Forest H2H statistics last three meetings regardless of arena: Liverpool two wins, Nottingham Forest one win, zero draws. one of these three matches had three or more goals (over 2,5). One of the profiles has been Jota with 3 goals scored against Nottingham Forest in these 3 meetings.
Top Goalscorers
  M. Salah Ghaly 7 goals |  D. Núñez Ribeiro 3 goals |   T. Awoniyi 3 goals |
Liverpool missing players
Nottingham Forest missing players
| Liverpool | Nottingham Forest | ||||||
| Total | Home | vs | Statistics | Stat | vs | Away | Total |
| 9 | 4 | 2 | Played | P | 2 | 5 | 9 |
| 6 | 4 | 2 | Won | W | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 2 | 0 | 0 | Drew | D | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| 1 | 0 | 0 | Lost | L | 2 | 3 | 3 |
| 20 | 11 | 5 | Scored | S | 1 | 4 | 10 |
| 9 | 2 | 1 | Conceded | C | 4 | 7 | 12 |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 100% | 80% | 89% |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 100% | 60% | 78% |
| 78% | 75% | 50% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 50% | 40% | 44% |
| 44% | 50% | 50% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 0% | 20% | 22% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 0% | 20% | 11% |
| 78% | 50% | 50% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | 67% |
| 22% | 50% | 50% | Clean Sheets | C S | 0% | 40% | 22% |
| 0% | 0% | 0% | Failed to Score | F T | 50% | 40% | 22% |
| 6.6 | 9 | 11 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.5 | 3.8 | 3.9 |
| 5 | 3.2 | 3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 7 | 7 | 6.6 |
| 2 | 0.5 | 1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 4.5 | 3.6 | 3.1 |
| 4 | 1 | 1 | Red cards | R C | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| 17.2 | 22.8 | 26 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 8 | 9.6 | 11.4 |
| 5.1 | 6.8 | 8 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 2.5 | 3.4 | 3.8 |
| 43% | 41% | 31% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 20% | 24% | 29% |
| 13.4 | 9.8 | 9.5 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 11 | 13.8 | 13 |
| 4.3 | 3.2 | 3 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 5.5 | 4.8 | 4.4 |
- All of Liverpool's matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
- Liverpool have scored at least twice as many goals as they have conceded.
- Liverpool have scored at least twice as many goals at home as Nottingham Forest have scored away.
- Liverpool have scored in all their matches so far.
- Liverpool have the fewest conceded goals in the second half (2) in Premier League
- Liverpool have the most points from losing position (10) in Premier League
- Liverpool have won all their matches at home so far.
- Liverpool have won at least twice as many corners as they have conceded at home.
- Liverpool have won significantly more corners at home than away.
- Liverpool haven’t played a single 0-0 game.
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Tottenham Hotspur | 9 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 20 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 12 | 6 | 12 | 23 |
| 2 | Manchester City | 9 | 7 | 0 | 2 | 19 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 5 | 12 | 21 |
| 3 | Arsenal | 9 | 6 | 3 | 0 | 18 | 8 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 6 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 8 | 2 | 10 | 21 |
| 4 | Liverpool | 9 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 20 | 9 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 9 | 7 | 11 | 20 |
| 5 | Aston Villa | 9 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 23 | 13 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 10 | 19 |
| 6 | Newcastle United | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 24 | 9 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 13 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 11 | 6 | 15 | 16 |
| 7 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 9 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 22 | 18 | 5 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 13 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 4 | 16 |
| 8 | Manchester United | 9 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 13 | 5 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 7 | 7 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | -2 | 15 |
| 9 | West Ham United | 9 | 4 | 2 | 3 | 16 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 8 | 10 | 0 | 14 |
| 10 | Chelsea | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 4 | 4 | 12 |
| 11 | Crystal Palace | 9 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 7 | 11 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 4 | 8 | -4 | 12 |
| 12 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 11 | 15 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 6 | -4 | 11 |
| 13 | Fulham | 9 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 8 | 15 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 9 | -7 | 11 |
| 14 | Brentford | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 14 | 12 | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 9 | 8 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| 15 | Nottingham Forest | 9 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 10 | 12 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 7 | -2 | 10 |
| 16 | Everton | 9 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 9 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 9 | -5 | 7 |
| 17 | Luton Town | 9 | 1 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 17 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 3 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 11 | -9 | 5 |
| 18 | Burnley | 9 | 1 | 1 | 7 | 7 | 23 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 4 | 16 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | -16 | 4 |
| 19 | AFC Bournemouth | 9 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 20 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 11 | -14 | 3 |
| 20 | Sheffield United | 9 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 7 | 24 | 5 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 15 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 9 | -17 | 1 |
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