Nottingham Forest and Aston Villa have named their beginning groups for his or her Premier League assembly on the Metropolis Floor on Sunday.
The hosts are three factors above the drop zone with a big objective superiority following a 3-0 win at rivals Tottenham – who go to Sunderland on Sunday (14:00 BST) – of their final top-flight outing on March 22.
Villa are fourth and heading in the right direction for Champions League qualification by way of their league place, beginning two factors above fifth-placed Liverpool with a match in hand.
101GreatGoals.com has the line-up information from Forest vs Villa within the 2025/26 Premier League, in addition to particulars on easy methods to watch.
Nottingham Forest confirmed beginning group vs Villa
Forest make 9 adjustments from their 1-1 draw at Porto within the first leg of their Europa League quarter-final three days in the past, Morgan Gibbs-White and Murillo retaining their locations.
Forest’s Chris Wooden was the main English scorer in final season’s Premier League with 20 objectives and the New Zealand striker began at Porto after six months out with a knee damage.
Wooden is on the bench this time and Elliot Anderson returns from suspension in midfield.
Goalkeeper John Victor and defenders Willy Boly and Nicolo Savona stay out with knee issues. Centre-back Jair Cunha has an ankle situation.
Nottingham Forest beginning XI: Matz Sels, Neco Williams, Murillo, Ibrahim Sangare, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Elliot Anderson, Morgan Gibbs-White, Igor Jesus, Omari Hutchinson, Nikola Milenkovic, Ola Aina
Forest substitutes: Stefan Ortega, Morato, Chris Wooden, Cherif Ndoye, Nicolas Dominguez, Ryan Yates, James McAtee, Luca Netz, Dilane Bakwa
Aston Villa full line up vs Forest
Ross Barkley is a newcomer in Villa’s midfield rather than Emi Buendia. Ezri Konsa headed the opener within the 3-1 win at Bologna within the first leg of the Europa League quarter-finals on Thursday however makes means for Victor Lindelof this time.
Winger Jadon Sancho (shoulder) and midfielder Boubacar Kamara (knee) are sidelined.
Influential midfielder Youri Tielemans made his first begin since getting back from an ankle damage at Bologna, offering assists from corners for Konsa and the second of Ollie Watkins’ objectives.
Villa received 4 of the 11 video games the Belgium worldwide missed.
Aston Villa beginning XI: Emiliano Martinez, Matty Money, Victor Lindelof, Pau Torres, Lucas Digne, Ross Barkley, Amadou Onana, Youri Tielemans, John McGinn, Morgan Rogers, Ollie Watkins
Villa substitutes: Marco Bizot, Ezri Konsa, Emiliano Buendia, Andres Garcia, Tammy Abraham, Douglas Luiz, Ian Maatsen, Lamare Bogarde, Leon Bailey
The place to look at Forest v Villa: TV channel, dwell on-line streams
Kick-off on Sunday is at 14:00 BST (09:00 ET / 06:00 PT), with dwell protection within the UK on Sky Sports activities Premier League and Sky Sports activities Extremely.
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Nottingham Forest v Aston Villa stats
- Forest might obtain three straight residence league wins in opposition to Villa for the primary time since a run between 1977 and 1979
- They’re winless in seven residence league video games (D4 L3), failing to attain of their final three and final going longer with out a residence league objective in February 2018 within the Championship (5 video games)
- The one event on which they’ve waited longer for a house objective within the prime flight was in April 1911 (4)
- Solely Brentford’s Igor Thiago (1,608) has utilized extra high-intensity pressures within the Premier League this season than Anderson (1,527), with 74.1% of Anderson’s pressures in the course of the marketing campaign high-intensity
- Anderson has the second-highest excessive depth fee of any participant to document 1,500+ pressures within the division, behind solely Brighton & Hove Albion’s Diego Gomez (77.3%)
- Villa might full a league double over Forest for the primary time since 2017/18 and for the primary time within the Premier League since 1992/93
- They’ve misplaced three of their 17 Premier League video games in opposition to Forest (W9 D5). Amongst sides they’ve confronted at the least 15 instances within the competitors, solely in opposition to Coventry (16.7%) have they got a decrease loss fee than in opposition to Forest (17.6%)
- The Villans have misplaced their final two away video games within the Premier League, final dropping extra in a row between November and December 2024 (5), a run together with a 2-1 defeat to Forest
- Of Villa’s 23 Premier League video games by which John McGinn has began this season, 14 have been wins (61%), representing the best ratio of any participant to begin at the least 20 league video games for the membership this season
- When McGinn hasn’t began, their win fee drops to 25% (2/8) in 2025/26
