Nottingham Forest vs Man Utd predictions: will the Red Devils' hot streak continue?

Nottingham Forest vs Manchester United: Key Stats

• Nottingham Forest narrowly beat Manchester United Opta Supercomputer's pre-match simulation with 38.1% votes.
• Forest have lost six of their last seven Premier League games, including the last four in a row without scoring.
• Only Ellyn Harland and Mohamed Salah have more Premier League 2025 goal participation than Bryan Mbeumo.

Ruben Amorim wants as In-form Manchester United travel to struggling Nottingham Saturday's Forest.

Manchester United backed up their impressive Liverpool scalp at Anfield with a 4-2 win over Brighton & Hove Albion on Saturday, making it three consecutive Premier League wins for the first time in Amorim's tenure.

That included their 2-0 win over Sunderland, which marked United's best winning streak in a single season since February 2024 when they won four consecutive games. The Red Devils were one of only three teams to win 100% of their games in October, along with Arsenal and Aston Villa, and jumped to sixth place in the table.

In fact, only the leaders Arsenal (16 times) have gained more Premier League points from the 3rd round than Manchester United (15 - W5 L2). Amorim's team is also the top scorer in the division Time (14) after beating Brighton four times in the last.

Brian Mbewumo fired twice on target, Casemiro's shot went wide and Matthews opened the scoring Cunha as United cooled Brighton's late hopes of a comeback.

Cunha's first top-flight goal for United demonstrated all the qualities that made Amorim so keen to sign the Brazilian. His seven goals from outside the box since the start of last season make up for more than any other Premier League player in all competitions.

More worryingly for 18th-placed Forest, Cunha has been involved in seven goals in his last four appearances against teams starting the day in the relegation zone (three goals, four assists). All of these involvements were played during April 2024 and April 2025 for former club Wolves.

Mbewumo has also scored or assisted in each of his most recent games Three league games for Manchester United (3 goals, 1 assist). At that, only Erlin Harland (19 goals, 3 assists) and Mohamed Salah (15 goals, 7 assists) have been involved in more Premier League 2025 goals than M'Beoumo (14 goals, 6 assists).

It's a completely different story for Forest, whose first Premier League campaign under new boss Sean Dyche ended in timidity with a 0-2 loss away to Bournemouth last weekend.

Optimism had been building after Dyche's first game since replacing Angel Postecoglou defeated Porto United 2-0 in the UEFA Cup, but his new side then fell well behind the tempo in a one-sided affair at the Vitality Stadium.

Only Morgan Gibbs-White came close to scoring against Bournemouth, as Forest put up 16.91 TP3T on long balls in a full game in stark contrast to the same metric under Postecoglou (8.51 TP3T).

Emphasizing the change in tactics, goalkeeper Mats Sels hit 25 long passes against Bournemouth, the most by a Forest player in a game this season.

A change of plans could not prevent Forest from falling to sixth in their last seven Premier League (D1) defeats, including four consecutive losses without scoring. They have not lost five consecutive games since October 2022, while Forest last suffered five league defeats back in January 2004, losing consecutive championships.

Of course, their lack of clinical edge was the main problem. Forest scored three goals from seven first-half shots in their Premier League opener over Brentford (43% converted), but in 17 halves of soccer since then they have scored just two goals from 93 shots (2%).

Dyche has been trusted to turn around a faltering ship, but he His side have failed to score in 14 of their last 10 Premier League matches Responsible for league games (Everton 9/13, Forest 1/1).

However, this poor scoring record is consistent with his career, which in no way means a turnaround is imminent. In 150+ games between managers in the history of the tournament, Dyche has the lowest goals-against average - 0.97 (323 goals in 334 games).

Dyche will be hoping that Chris Wood can come back to share the attacking load while loanee Alexander Zinchenko makes his comeback. Ola Aina won't be available until early next year however, year.

Meanwhile, Amorim's medical team will rule over Harry Maguire late before Saturday's game, while Lisandro Martinez has returned to training after a long-term knee problem, although this game came too early for him.

Nottingham Forest vs Manchester United Head-to-Head

Anthony Elanga scored the winning goal in the game this season, firing five minutes later to give Forest a 1-0 win, locking up a league double over United.

In fact, Forest have won their last three league games against United, but have not made it four straight against the Reds Devils since 1910.

United have lost their last two league games at the City Ground, but haven't lost three consecutive away games to Forest since Between August 1965 and October 1967

Nottingham Forest vs Manchester United Predictions

The Opta supercomputer appeared to tear up during Saturday's clash, emerging from what was expected to be a heated encounter at the City Ground.

Despite Forest's recent struggles, they top 10,000 pre-match simulations with a winning percentage of 38.1%, while draws are rated at 26.5%.

Manchester United have a 35.4% chance of winning all three points and making it four wins in a row in the Premier League.