Champions League-chasing Nottingham Forest host newly-relegated Leicester in a Premier League showdown on Sunday, 11 May, at 2:15 pm (UK time).
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Across the last five Premier League matches at the City Ground, both teams have not scored, with four matches ending in one team keeping a clean sheet and Forest’s goalless draw with Arsenal.
Chris Wood anytime goalscorer
Only five players have scored more Premier League home goals than Chris Wood (10) this season; the Kiwi marksman averages one goal every 128.9 minutes at the City Ground.
How both teams go into Nottingham Forest vs Leicester
Nottingham Forest will need to put their FA Cup semi-final disappointment behind them with five Premier League games to navigate, which could lead to Champions League football being played at the City Ground next season. Not since the second of their European Cup defences have Forest dined at the highest seat of UEFA club competitions, and under Nuno Espírito Santo’s leadership, they are on the cusp of making history. After 33 games, they find themselves in sixth place, level on points with fifth-place Chelsea, one behind Manchester City in third, with third-place Newcastle a point further up; all three sides have played one game more.
Things could not be any more different for their East Midlands rivals Leicester, who have suffered the ignominy of relegation after one season away from the bright lights. Under two different managers, the Foxes could only muster four wins from their opening 34 matches, while suffering the second-most losses (24) of this campaign; only in 1977–78 and 1994–95 have they ever lost more in a single league campaign in their history, both with 25 losses. An issue has been that they conceded first in 29 of their 34 Premier League games this season—the most ever by a side in a single 38-game campaign in the competition.
Nottingham Forest team news
Nottingham Forest will be hoping to have both Ola Aina and Eric da Silva Moreira back for this contest, with both continuing to recover from their respective injuries.
Leicester team news
Issahaku Fatawu and Stephy Mavididi are ruled out for Leicester until the forthcoming Championship season, while there is no return date for Facundo Buonanotte, Ricardo Pereira, Bobby De Cordova-Reid, and Harry Winks.
Nottingham Forest vs Leicester head-to-head
Nottingham Forest are seeking a third successive league win over Leicester City, a feat they last achieved between February 1994 and March 1995.
| Nottingham Forest vs Leicester H2H | |||||||
| Date | Score | Competition | |||||
| 25 Oct 2024 | Leicester 1-3 Nottingham Forest | Premier League | |||||
| 14 Jan 2023 | Nottingham Forest 2-0 Leicester | Premier League | |||||
| 03 Oct 2022 | Leicester 4-0 Nottingham Forest | Premier League | |||||
| 06 Feb 2022 | Nottingham Forest 4-1 Leicester | FA Cup | |||||
| 19 Feb 2014 | Nottingham Forest 2-2 Leicester | Championship | |||||