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Nottingham Forest - Arsenal

Arsenal travel to the City Ground chasing Manchester City

Arsenal visit the City Ground on Sunday evening sitting second in the table, three points behind Manchester City having played the same number of games. Nottingham Forest are fifteenth with five points from six.

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The gap above and below

Arsenal have won four of their last five recent matches, the exception a heavy defeat. A win on Sunday would take them to 18 points from seven games; a draw to 16. Manchester City, who have played six, sit on 18. Forest have won one, drawn two and lost two of their last five, and a win here would lift them to eight points from seven.

The market implies Arsenal win this 57.7 per cent of the time, Forest 17.3 per cent, with the draw at 25 per cent. That spread reflects the gap in the table and the recent run, though Two Arsenal starters go down in training this week will have shaped the price.

Five meetings, nine goals

The five head-to-head meetings above produced nine goals in total. The most recent finished 0-0; the one before that 3-0 to Arsenal. Forest have not won any of those five, taking two draws. Three of the five were decided by a single goal or none at all, so the pattern is tighter than the table gap suggests, even if the direction has been consistent.

We are covering this one live. Follow it with us in the match centre for the line-ups when they land, the goals as they go in, and the full timeline.

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Arsenal visit the City Ground on Sunday evening sitting second in the table, three points behind Manchester City having played the same number of games. Nottingham Forest are fifteenth with five points from six.

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