Brentford — Nottingham Forest 2:0, 31 October: match result

match finished Premier League · Matchday 9 Saturday 31 October · 15:00 UTC

Brentford 6th · 14 pts LWDLD

2 : 0 1st half 1:0

Nottingham Forest 19th · 6 pts WLDLL

Brentford Community Stadium · referee D. England

Match predictionSafe

Nottingham Forest to stay within two goals

91% · Nottingham Forest are winless in 5 games

Prediction landed. We predicted “Nottingham Forest to stay within two goals”, and the match finished 2:0.

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our forecast this is how the model saw the match before kick-off

Brentford 49% draw 25% Nottingham Forest 26%

The model was right

The most likely outcome was Brentford win, and the match finished 2:0. Fans backed Brentford win — they got it right.

fans 70 votes

Brentford 61% draw 15% Nottingham Forest 24%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

N. Milenkovic own goal 1-0 30'

N. Milenkovic 36'

R. Yates for X. Schlager 46'

D. Munoz for O. Aina 46'

M. Damsgaard for M. Jensen 62'

A. Hickey for M. Sangare 62'

D. Munoz 64'

C. Wood for L. Delap 65'

A. Kalimuendo for D. Ndoye 65'

M. Kayode 68'

J. Anthony for D. Ouattara 72'

I. Thiago assist: J. Anthony 2-0 76'

J. McAtee 83'

C. Wilson for K. Schade 84'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Brentford 4-3-3 3-4-2-1 Nottingham Forest

Caoimhin Kelleher  
Michael Kayode  20 Kristoffer Ajer  4 Sepp van den Berg  23 Keane Lewis-Potter  
Mamadou Sangare  27 Vitaly Janelt  8 Mathias Jensen  
Dango Ouattara  9 Igor Thiago  7 Kevin Schade  

Liam Delap  
Dan Ndoye  10 Morgan Gibbs-White  
Ola Aina  24 James McAtee  21 Xaver Schlager  3 Neco Williams  
Jair  31 Nikola Milenković  5 Murillo  
Matz Sels  

Brentford bench

2Aaron Hickey
13Callum Wilson
25El Hadji Malick Diouf
39Gustavo Nunes
12Hákon Rafn Valdimarsson
19Jaidon Anthony
44Jannik Schuster
24Mikkel Damsgaard
22Nathan Collins

Nottingham Forest bench

15Arnaud Kalimuendo
7Callum Hudson Odoi
9Chris Wood
27Daniel Muñoz
6Ibrahim Sangaré
12John Victor
25Luca Netz
2Ousmane Diomande
22Ryan Yates

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

42%Possession58%

7Shots15

1Shots on target1

5Shots off target8

1Blocked shots6

3Shots inside box9

4Shots outside box6

77Attacks121

24Dangerous attacks45

3Corners4

1Offsides1

6Fouls17

1Yellow cards3

1Saves0

339Passes476

241Accurate passes365

18Free kicks7

8Throw-ins19

12Goal kicks7

0Penalties0

Brentford

Nottingham ForestThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Brentford and Nottingham Forest met on matchday 9 of the Premier League on 31 October at Brentford Community Stadium. Final score — 2:0.

Brentford sit 6th on 14 points after 10 matches (3 wins, 5 draws, 2 losses), 3 matches without conceding. Nottingham Forest sit 19th on 6 points after 10 matches (2 wins, 3 draws, 5 losses).

Of the last 2 meetings Brentford won 0, Nottingham Forest won 2. Aggregate score — 1:5.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Brentford last five Nottingham Forest

LWDLD form WLDLL

10 Matches 10

3 — 5 — 2 Wins — draws — defeats 2 — 3 — 5

16 — 11 Scored — conceded 9 — 13

1.4 Points per game 0.9

1.6 Goals scored per game 0.9

3 Clean sheets 1

1 Failed to score 5

winless in 1 Current streak unbeaten in 1

Brentford at home: 5 matches, 3 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss, goals 10—3, 2 points per match.

Nottingham Forest away: 5 matches, 1 win, 2 draws, 2 losses, goals 6—9, 1 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

0 Brentford wins 0 draws 2 Nottingham Forest wins goals 1:5 Brentford — Nottingham Forest

25/01/2026	Brentford — Nottingham Forest	0:2	Premier League
17/08/2025	Nottingham Forest — Brentford	3:1	Premier League

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
6	Liverpool	9	4	3	2	11—9	15
7	Brentford	9	3	5	1	16—9	14
8	Leeds United	10	3	5	2	10—8	14
…
15	Fulham	10	2	4	4	10—12	10
16	Nottingham Forest	10	2	3	5	9—13	9
17	Coventry City	10	3	0	7	10—19	9

Full Premier League table

Brentford — Nottingham Forest, 31 October 2026, 15:00 UTC : score 2:0