Nottingham Forest will look to move out of the Premier League’s relegation zone when they host Fulham on Friday evening.
Both sides were beaten last time out and have since had a week’s rest after all of the top-flight’s fixtures were postponed last weekend.
Forest signed 22 players in the summer transfer window, but they have lost only one of their three previous games.
Meanwhile, Marco Silva’s Fulham have impressed in their opening six games, sitting in 10th place with star striker Aleksandar Mitrovic second in the top scorer rankings.
The Cottagers won this fixture in the Championship last year, handing Steve Cooper his very first loss as Forest manager.
Nottingham Forest vs Fulham: talkSPORT coverage
This Premier League fixture will be held on Friday, September 16th.
Kick-off at City Ground is at 8pm
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Nottingham Forest vs Fulham: Team news
Forest will remain without three of their signings: Moussa Niakhate, Omar Richards and Orel mangala.
They will also be without Manor Solomon, their winger, which could make it difficult for them to compete.
Antonee Robinson was substituted with an ankle injury in Fulham’s game against Spurs so Marco Silva may start with Kevin Mbabu in defence.
Harry Wilson is also likely to be absent from Friday’s event.
Nottingham Forest vs Fulham: What’s been said?
Silva, Cottagers boss is anticipating a tough game at City Ground.
“It will be a really competitive match against a side who had a really strong market in the summer,” he said.
“They want to get points, but we want the same and our approach will be the same. We are there to fight and match them to win the points.
“That’s our way, it’s always our aim and ambition for the match.”
Fulham vs Nottingham Forest: Match facts
- Aleksandar Mitrovic has scored six goals in Fulham’s opening six Premier League matches this season, netting in the last four in a row. Peter Odemwingie of West Brom was the last player to score in five successive Premier League matches for a newly promoted club. Cottagers have never had five consecutive Premier League appearances.
- Nottingham Forest’s Brennan Johnson has scored 18 league goals since the start of last season, more than any other player aged 21 or under in England’s top four tiers.
- Fulham (23) has had more players in the Premier League than any other team. The Cottagers have made the least number of changes to their starting XI this term (3).
- Fulham have scored 1.5 goals per-game in this season’s Premier League (9 goals in 6 games), an increase of more than twice the average they scored in their previous campaign (0.7). Indeed, it’s their highest ever goals-per-game ratio in a Premier League season.
- Nottingham Forest are the only side to have faced 100+ shots in the Premier League this season (104), while they’ve also faced the most shots on target (42) and have the highest expected goals against tally this term (12).
- Nottingham Forest have lost their last three Premier League games – they last lost more consecutively in the top-flight between August and September 1992 (6).
- This will be Nottingham Forest’s 205th Premier League game, but their first ever on a Friday. Fulham, meanwhile, are still without a win in five of their last five Premier League games (D1 L4).
- Fulham have won five out of seven league matches against Nottingham Forest since 2017(L2), the same number as their 20 previous games against them between 1968 (D7L8).
- Fulham has won all three of their away league matches against Nottingham Forest. Between 1972 and 1984 they last won four consecutive road games against Middlesbrough.
- This is the first Premier League match between Fulham & Nottingham Forest. They last met at the City Ground on April 1968.
