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Nottingham Forest vs Brentford (2025-08-17T13:00:00.000Z)

Premier League Round 1
  • The City Ground
  • Peter Bankes
  • 29,949
3 - 1Full time

Nottingham Forest vs Brentford (2025-08-17T13:00:00.000Z)


Match review

Nottingham Forest 3-1 Brentford: Wood and Gibbs-White shine in convincing win

Nottingham Forest opened their 2025-26 Premier League season with a well-earned victory against Keith Andrews' Brentford.


Momentum

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Events

Chris Wood (1 - 0)
5’
Dan Ndoye (2 - 0)Header, assist by Morgan Gibbs-White
42’
+4 minutes added
45’+2
HT 3 - 0
46’
78’
Igor Thiago (3 - 1)Penalty
FT 3 - 1
7.4

Nottingham Forest

4-2-3-1

6.0

Brentford

4-2-3-1
7.4
Nottingham Forest
4-2-3-1
7.5
26Sels
6.0
Brentford
4-2-3-1

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Coach

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Team form


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  • Big chances

Player of the Match

Chris Wood
Nottingham Forest
8.8

About the match

    Nottingham Forest faces Brentford at The City Ground on Sun, Aug 17, 2025, 13:00 UTC. This match is part of the Premier League. You can check the recent head-to-head encounters, as well as full H2H record on this page to see how Nottingham Forest and Brentford have fared against each other in the past. On FotMob, you can follow the Nottingham Forest vs Brentford live score with a full set of match features, including:

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  • The lineups are:
    Nottingham Forest (4-2-3-1): Matz Sels - Ola Aina, Nikola Milenkovic, Murillo, Neco Williams - Ibrahim Sangaré, Elliot Anderson - Dan Ndoye, Morgan Gibbs-White, Callum Hudson-Odoi - Chris Wood.
    Brentford (4-2-3-1): Caoimhin Kelleher - Michael Kayode, Sepp van den Berg, Nathan Collins, Rico Henry - Mathias Jensen, Yehor Yarmoliuk - Keane Lewis-Potter, Antoni Milambo, Fabio Carvalho - Igor Thiago.

  • Unavailable players for Nottingham Forest: Nicolás Dominguez (injury). Unavailable players for Brentford: Ethan Pinnock (injury), Vitaly Janelt (injury), Gustavo Gomes (injury).

  • Team form & Head-to-head history: Compare recent results and see how Nottingham Forest and Brentford have performed against each other. The current head to head record for the teams are Nottingham Forest 5 win(s), Brentford 11 win(s), and 4 draw(s).

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  • Have scored 1 goals in their last 5 matches

  • Have scored 7 goals in their last 5 matches

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  • Have scored 1 goals in their last 5 matches

  • Have scored 7 goals in their last 5 matches

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