Aston Villa vs Nottingham Forest: early output contrast
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Nottingham Forest vs Aston Villa is an English matchup whose modern meetings have resisted a single script. Aston Villa have produced clear wins, Forest have answered at home, and draws range from the measured to the spectacular. The 5–5 meeting in 2018 sits at one end of that scale, while several later contests were settled by a single goal. This mix of swing and narrow margins keeps the fixture compelling.
Past matches, Nottingham Forest vs Aston Villa
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Starting eleven
Substitutes Aston Villa
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19F
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18F
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17F
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47F
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44M
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26M
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13D
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5D
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40G
Nottingham Forest Substitutes
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F
9
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F
15
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G
12
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D
25
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F
7
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M
6
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M
8
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M
22
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F
11
Match events
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25'Tyrone Mings Pau Torres
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43'Dan Ndoye Yellow Card
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45'Nicolas Jackson Yellow Card
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45' +3Murillo Santiago Yellow Card
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45'Tammy Abraham Nicolas Jackson
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45'Alysson Edward Franco da Rocha George Hemmings
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46'⚽Liam Delap Normal Goal (Asst: Murillo Santiago)
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56'Xaver Schlager Yellow Card
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63'Ibrahim Mbaye Emiliano Buendía
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63'Johan Manzambi Ross Barkley
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74'⚽Alysson Edward Franco da Rocha Normal Goal (Asst: John McGinn)
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75'Liam Delap Yellow Card
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75'Igor Jesus Dan Ndoye
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80'James Mcatee Yellow Card
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82'Ibrahim Sangaré James Mcatee
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88'⚽Igor Jesus Normal Goal (Asst: Morgan Gibbs-White)
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90' +1Chris Wood Liam Delap
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90' +5Tyrone Mings Yellow Card
Stats for this game
Matchup Nottingham Forest VS Aston Villa
Margins at both ends
Forest and Villa have repeatedly moved between close contests and unusually open scorelines. The clearest outlier came in November 2018, when Aston Villa and Nottingham Forest drew 5–5 at Villa Park. That result gave the fixture a memorable high-scoring edge, but the wider sequence has more often been decided by a small margin or left level.
Answers from both sides
Villa’s 2–0 home win in April 2023 was followed by Forest’s 2–0 response in November of the same year. The exchange then stayed close in 2024: Villa won 4–2 in February, while Forest answered 2–1 in December. Those results show why the matchup is difficult to reduce to a simple hierarchy. Villa can create separation, Forest can reply with a clear result of its own, and the fixture can also settle into a draw. Its character comes from that movement between emphatic spells, one-goal decisions and a contest where neither side has owned every later chapter. That makes each encounter worth reading as its own contest, with a narrow lead offering little guarantee that the next meeting will follow it. A future meeting therefore asks whether the next margin stays narrow or opens into another contest of extremes.
Past head to head stats
Nottingham Forest VS Aston Villa
Balance Wins - Draws - Losses over time
Nottingham Forest
Aston Villa
Points per match over time
Comparison between the 2 teams for the last 10 games
Comparison between the 2 teams for the last 17 games
Nottingham Forest VS Aston Villa
Head-to-Head History
Previous games Nottingham Forest
Upcoming games Nottingham Forest
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Regular Season - 5
Nottingham Forest
Coventry
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Regular Season - 6
Crystal Palace
Nottingham Forest
Selhurst Park
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Regular Season - 7
Nottingham Forest
Arsenal
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Regular Season - 8
Ipswich
Nottingham Forest
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Regular Season - 9
Brentford
Nottingham Forest
Upcoming games Aston Villa
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Round of 32
Coventry
Aston Villa
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Regular Season - 5
Tottenham
Aston Villa
Tottenham Hotspur Stadium
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Regular Season - 6
Aston Villa
Brentford
Villa Park
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Group Stage
Aston Villa
Fenerbahçe
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Regular Season - 7
Newcastle
Aston Villa
St. James' Park