Nottingham Forest — Tottenham Hotspur 0:0, 5 September: match result

match finished Premier League · Matchday 3 Saturday 5 September · 14:00 UTC

Nottingham Forest 16th · 2 pts LWDDL

0 : 0 1st half 0:0

Tottenham Hotspur 18th · 1 pts LDDLL

City Ground · referee C. Pawson

Match predictionSafe

This will not turn into a rout

91% · Nottingham Forest games average 1.7 goals

Prediction landed. We predicted “This will not turn into a rout”, and the match finished 0:0.

the market is chosen by our model: not always the obvious one, but a likely one

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

Nottingham Forest 42% draw 28% Tottenham Hotspur 30%

The model was wrong

The most likely outcome was Nottingham Forest win, and the match finished 0:0. Fans backed Nottingham Forest win — they got it wrong.

fans 46 votes

Nottingham Forest 50% draw 20% Tottenham Hotspur 30%

Voting closed at kick-off

Match events

full timeline

D. Udogie 45+1'

N. Milenkovic 52'

D. Munoz for O. Aina 59'

Igor Jesus for D. Ndoye 59'

A. Robertson for D. Udogie 61'

M. Kudus for Savinho 61'

M. Mudryk for M. Tel 74'

C. Wood for L. Delap 74'

J. McAtee 78'

M. Fernandes for C. Gallagher 83'

M. Fernandes 84'

D. Solanke for O. Marmoush 84'

O. Diomande for Murillo 90'

Line-ups

starting eleven and bench

Nottingham Forest 3-4-2-1 · Oliver Glasner 4-2-3-1 · Roberto De Zerbi Tottenham Hotspur

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

Omar Marmoush  
Sávio  8 Conor Gallagher  11 Mathys Tel  
Rodrigo Bentancur  16 Sandro Tonali  
Pedro Porro  6 Jan Paul van Hecke  37 Micky van de Ven  13 Destiny Udogie  
Antonín Kinský  

Nottingham Forest bench

7Callum Hudson Odoi
9Chris Wood
27Daniel Muñoz
11Igor Jesus
12John Victor
25Luca Netz
8Nicolás Domínguez
2Ousmane Diomande
22Ryan Yates

Tottenham Hotspur bench

3Andy Robertson
14Archie Gray
19Dominic Solanke
15Lucas Bergvall
5Marcos Senesi
39Martin Dúbravka
18Mateus Fernandes
20Mohammed Kudus
27Mykhailo Mudryk

Match stats

20 metrics for the full match

41%Possession59%

12Shots12

2Shots on target0

7Shots off target8

3Blocked shots4

5Shots inside box9

7Shots outside box3

65Attacks99

46Dangerous attacks54

2Corners10

2Offsides1

21Fouls12

2Yellow cards2

0Saves1

308Passes443

235Accurate passes372

14Free kicks24

15Throw-ins21

7Goal kicks8

0Penalties0

Nottingham Forest

Tottenham HotspurThe source gives no per-half split — only totals for the match

How the match went

text generated from our data

Nottingham Forest and Tottenham Hotspur met on matchday 3 of the Premier League on 5 September at City Ground. Final score — 0:0.

Nottingham Forest sit 16th on 2 points after 5 matches (1 win, 2 draws, 2 losses). Tottenham Hotspur sit 18th on 1 point after 5 matches (0 wins, 2 draws, 3 losses), winless in 5 matches.

Of the last 2 meetings Nottingham Forest won 2, Tottenham Hotspur won 0. Aggregate score — 6:0.

Season form

all competitions of the season

Nottingham Forest last five Tottenham Hotspur

LWDDL form LDDLL

5 Matches 5

1 — 2 — 2 Wins — draws — defeats 0 — 2 — 3

4 — 5 Scored — conceded 2 — 8

1 Points per game 0.4

0.8 Goals scored per game 0.4

1 Clean sheets 2

3 Failed to score 4

winless in 1 Current streak winless in 5

Nottingham Forest at home: 3 matches, 0 wins, 1 draw, 2 losses, goals 0—2, 0.33 points per match.

Tottenham Hotspur away: 2 matches, 0 wins, 1 draw, 1 loss, goals 0—3, 0.5 points per match.

Head-to-head

2 matches in our database

2 Nottingham Forest wins 0 draws 0 Tottenham Hotspur wins goals 6:0 Nottingham Forest — Tottenham Hotspur

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14/12/2025	Nottingham Forest — Tottenham Hotspur	3:0	Premier League

League table

after the match

#	Team	P	W	D	L	Goals	Pts
11	Ipswich Town	5	2	0	3	7—11	6
12	Nottingham Forest	4	1	2	1	4—4	5
13	Manchester United	3	1	1	1	7—6	4
…
18	Coventry City	5	1	0	4	1—10	3
19	Tottenham Hotspur	5	0	2	3	2—8	2
20	Fulham	4	0	1	3	4—7	1

Full Premier League table