Nottingham Forest host Arsenal in Wednesday’s matchday 27 encounter hoping to cut down the six-point gap between the two sides and help Forest cling onto their top-four spot.
Three defeats from their last four league games means Forest start this midweek round just three points inside the top four, and a game against the Gunners won’t necessarily serve as a remedy for their recent struggles.
Since Forest returned to the top flight in 2022/23, the Tricky Trees have lost four of the five Premier League head to heads, part of a wider run of seven defeats in eight such meetings dating back to the 1990s.
A mere two wins in nine Wednesday-held Premier League games is another omen working against them here, but Nuno Espírito Santo’s side have encouragingly won six of their last seven home games, including a 7-0 thumping of Brighton in their last outing here.
Injuries are starting to hamper Arsenal’s season and their lack of firepower was evident in their 1-0 weekend defeat at home to West Ham. That defeat ended the Gunners’ 15-match unbeaten league run, but Mikel Arteta’s side haven’t lost back-to-back games in the top flight since December 2023, so a response should be expected here in what is their third Wednesday-held Premier League game of 2025 already.
They won the other two and have a strong recent record in Premier League fixtures on a Wednesday, securing victory in 12 of their last 16 such games (D1, L3). Arsenal have tended to be formidable in evening kick-offs (7pm or later), winning 12 of their last 13 such games in the Premier League, a run which should inspire confidence of winning consecutive away league H2Hs for the first time since 1990.
