Premier League Round 7 2026-10-18 · 15:30 UTC finished
Prediction
19% Nottingham Forest (home)
23% Draw
59% Arsenal (away) Model favorite
Expected goals 1.04 — 1.67 Over 2.5 goals: 51% Both teams to score: 53%

Model: history/v2-w1460-r150. Probabilities are produced by our own model from public match data. They are not odds and not betting advice.

Why — recent form

"—" means the number is not available in our data; we never fill gaps with zeros. Recent form covers only matches with expected-goals data, which may be fewer than the team's actual recent fixtures.

Metric Nottingham Forest Arsenal
Recent xG (attack, per-match avg) 1.91.84
Recent xGA (defence, per-match avg) 1.30.67
Sample size (matches with xG data) 55
Rest days since last match 75
Season pressing (PPDA, lower = more intense) 13.2 9.7
Matches in the last 7 days 12
Matches in the next 7 days 22
Travel to this match (km) 186169

What could go against this prediction

The model's top probability is below 70%; in backtests matches in this band end as predicted about 53.4% of the time.

Injuries & suspensions

Latest pre-match snapshot from our data source; availability varies by league.

Nottingham Forest

  • injured Igor Jesus return: Late October 2026
  • injured Morgan Gibbs-White return: doubtful
  • injured Nicolò Savona return: Late October 2026

Arsenal

  • injured Christos Tzolis return: Late October 2026
  • injured Piero Hincapié return: Late October 2026
  • injured William Saliba return: Back in training

Head to head

All-time (per our source): Nottingham Forest 3 · 2 2 draws · 7 Arsenal

DateHome ScoreAway
2026-01-17Nottingham Forest 0 - 0Arsenal
2025-09-13Arsenal 3 - 0Nottingham Forest
2025-02-26Nottingham Forest 0 - 0Arsenal
2024-11-23Arsenal 3 - 0Nottingham Forest
2024-01-30Nottingham Forest 1 - 2Arsenal
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Data coverage

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