TEAM NEWS
Nottingham Forest midfielder Ibrahim Sangare is suspended after accumulating five yellow cards but Willy Boly returns from a ban.
Serge Aurier, Felipe and Taiwo Awoniyi are still out but boss Nuno Espirito Santo has no new injury concerns.
Manchester United are again likely to be without Luke Shaw, Sofyan Amrabat and Anthony Martial.
Casemiro, Harry Maguire, Tyrell Malacia, Lisandro Martinez, Mason Mount and Victor Lindelof remain sidelined.
MATCH FACTS
Head-to-head
- Manchester United have won 11 consecutive matches against Nottingham Forest in all competitions since drawing 1-1 at the City Ground in the Premier League on 27 November 1995.
- Forest are in danger of losing nine successive top-flight matches against United, which would be an outright club record losing streak against a particular opponent.
- Their only win in 13 Premier League games versus United was 2-1 at Old Trafford in December 1994.
- Forest’s most recent home win against the Red Devils came in Division One in March 1992 courtesy of a Nigel Clough goal.
- This will be the 100th league fixture between the sides.
Nottingham Forest
- Forest are vying for back-to-back Premier League wins for just the second time since promotion, having beaten Southampton and Leicester in consecutive fixtures in January.
- They are also in danger of losing five successive top-flight home matches for the first time since a similar streak from January to March 1999, which included an 8-1 defeat by Manchester United.
- They have won their final league game in one of the previous nine calendar years and ended 2022 with a 3-0 defeat at Manchester United.
- Nuno Espirito Santo’s only win in seven Premier League fixtures against United was 2-1 for Wolves at Molineux in April 2019.
- Chris Wood has netted six goals in his last five league starts.
- Anthony Elanga has scored four goals in 19 league appearances for Forest, one more than he managed in 39 games for Manchester United.
Manchester United
- United have won their final league fixture in each of the past five years.
- They last ended the year with a defeat in 2011, when beaten 3-2 at home by Blackburn.
- The Red Devils have 31 points from 19 league matches, eight fewer than at the halfway stage of their first season under Erik ten Hag.
- Defeat would be their 14th in all competitions this season – the last time they lost more than 13 times before the turn of the year was in 1930-31.
- They are in danger of going four consecutive top-flight away games without scoring for the first time since a similar sequence in March and April 1989, which included a 2-0 defeat at the City Ground.
- Antony is without a goal or assist in 20 appearances for United in all competitions this season. He last scored in April’s 2-0 win away to Forest.
