📊 Form Guide

Manchester United

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Manchester United will play in this match after a 0-0 Premier League tied result against Sunderland.

In that game, Manchester United managed 49% possession and 11 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. On the other side, Sunderland got 15 attempts at goal with 4 of them on target.

Over their prior six games, Michael Carrick's Manchester United have seen rewards for their attempts on goal a combined total of 9 times - an average number of goals scored per match equal to 1.5.

Leading up to this clash, Manchester United:

• have not registered a win against Nottingham Forest in their last 4 league games.
• have not been beaten in their last 2 league matches at home.

Nottingham Forest

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In their last game, Nottingham Forest drew 1-1 in the Premier League match with Newcastle United.

In that match, Nottingham Forest had 46% possession and 17 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for Nottingham Forest was Elliot Anderson (88'). For their opponents, Newcastle United had 16 shots on goal with 6 on target. Harvey Barnes (74') was the scorer for Newcastle United.

Showing their penchant for action-packed matches, the back of the net has been hit 21 times in the previous six games in which Nottingham Forest have taken to the field, yielding an average of 3.5 goals for each meeting. Opposition teams have hit 7 of those goals. Putting that to one side, it remains to be seen if such a trend shall be maintained in this next match.

Coming into this clash, Nottingham Forest have not been beaten in their last 4 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

Looking over their most recent head to head meetings dating back to 26/08/2023 shows that Manchester United have won 2 of these & Nottingham Forest 3, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

19 goals were produced between them during those clashes, with 9 for The Red Devils and 10 belonging to The Reds. That’s an average goals per game of 3.17.

The last league clash featuring these clubs was Premier League match day 10 on 01/11/2025 when it finished Nottingham Forest 2-2 Manchester United.

In that game, Nottingham Forest had 41% possession and 17 shots on goal with 3 on target. The goals were scored by Morgan Gibbs-White (48') and Nicolò Savona (50').

On the other side, Manchester United got 18 attempts at goal with 7 on target. Casemiro (34') and Amad Diallo (81') scored.

The referee was Darren England.

🗞️ Team News: Manchester United

It seems likely that The Red Devils could go for a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game featuring Senne Lammens, Diogo Dalot, Harry Maguire, Lisandro Martinez, Luke Shaw, Casemiro, Kobbie Mainoo, Amad Diallo, Bruno Fernandes, Matheus Cunha and Bryan Mbeumo.

ℹ️ Team News: Nottingham Forest

It’s our belief that The Reds seem most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 formation, settling for Matz Sels, Neco Williams, Nikola Milenkovic, Jair Cunha, Luca Netz, Nicolas Dominguez, Elliot Anderson, Dilane Bakwa, Igor Jesus, Morgan Gibbs-White and Taiwo Awoniyi.

⚡ Prediction

We feel that in this game, Nottingham Forest will surely be able to score against this Manchester United side, however it may not be as many as they will have scored against them.

We reckon that it will be a very close game with a 2-1 winning margin for Manchester United at the end of the match. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

Victor Martins, 11:03 17/05/2026