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Duran heads Villa into lead at Nottingham Forest before Malenkovic heads leveller
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Ipswich earn late win at Wolves
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Nott'm Forest 0-1 Aston Villa
Marc Albrighton
Former Aston Villa midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live
Probably not what you want to see as a Nottingham Forest defender: Duran going off and being replaced by Ollie Watkins.
I think Duran will be pleased with his evening's work. He has worked hard and got the goal.
Nott'm Forest 0-1 Aston Villa
Around 15 minutes to go at the City Ground. As things stand Villa will leapfrog Forest in the Premier League table.
Can the home side find a leveller?
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I said 2 weeks ago when we got beat by Chelsea that we'd be ok by Christmas as we had Brentford, Saints and Forest as our next 3 games before City. Hopefully we can keep the clean sheet that that Emi save deserves and it'll be 9 points out of 9 and back in the top 4. UTV!
Marc
Nott'm Forest 0-1 Aston Villa
And now Unai Emery turns to his bench.
On come Amadou Onana and Ollie Watkins for Youri Tielemans and Jhon Duran.
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I'm starting a campaign for that save to be listed as one of the MOTD Goal of the Month contenders!
Mike, Leicester
Nott'm Forest 0-1 Aston Villa
Marc Albrighton
Former Aston Villa midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live
You can see Unai Emery is just telling everybody to just calm down and slow the play down.
It's got a bit frantic.
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Woops. Jhon Duran goes into the book for getting in Matz Sels' way as the keeper goes to take a goal-kick.
Pretty cheap way to pick up a booking.
Nott'm Forest 0-1 Aston Villa
Here come the Forest changes. Murillo and Ryan Yates make way for Morato and Jota Silva.
Nott'm Forest 0-1 Aston Villa
This has opened up quite a bit now.
Emi Martinez produces another good save to deny Morgan Gibbs-White and Callum Hudson-Odoi thinks he has a claim for a penalty but the referee says no.
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Save of the year
Chris AVFC
Greatest save in Premier League history? That was extraordinary.
Alex
That has to be up there with one of the top 5 saves of all time from Martinez... Quite simply a phenomenal save.
Sam, Cornwall
Image source, Getty ImagesNott'm Forest 0-1 Aston Villa
A brilliant goal from Jhon Duran but you just have to once again applaud that save from Emi Martinez moments before.
A sublime stop and the game could've looked very different for both sides had that found the back of the net.
Nott'm Forest 0-1 Aston Villa
That's Jhon Duran's sixth goal in the Premier League this season, a new career high in a single edition of the tournament.
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Marc Albrighton
Former Aston Villa midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live
Who else? He has done it again.
That is an unbelievable header. He has guided it past Matz Sels and Villa are in the lead against the run of play, if anything.
Jhon Duran (63 mins)
He's at it again!
Morgan Rogers does ever so well to keep hold of the ball. He's actually brought down on the edge of the area but the referee play a good advantage.
It comes eventually to John McGinn who just gets a deft flicked cross on it and it's an absolutely brilliant header planted into the back of the net by Jhon Duran.
Brilliant goal.
Image source, ReutersNott'm Forest 0-0 Aston Villa
Marc Albrighton
Former Aston Villa midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live
I thought that was in but what a superb save. Martinez has got down so low and so quick and somehow kept it out.
He is not even facing the right way and manages to claw it away.
I honestly can't believe it. It is centimetres from going in, that is incredible. That is one of the best I've seen.
Nott'm Forest 0-0 Aston Villa
How on earth has Emi Martinez kept that out?!
Nottingham Forest have a corner and it's headed on by Morgan Gibbs-White for Nicolas DomÃnguez, who gets a touch on it and it looks certain to be a Forest goal.
But the Argentinian keeper gets down and paws the ball away. It's actually already gone behind him when he shoves it out. It's millimetres from being over the line.
That is an absolutely unbelievable save.
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Ollie Watkins is warming up on the touchline and using the opportunity to shout some instructions to his teammates.
He'll want to be on that pitch and try to make the difference here.
Nott'm Forest 0-0 Aston Villa
Neco Williams drifts into some space and has a crack from 25-yards out but it's just wide.
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The way Nottingham Forest have started the season defies my myth that teams battling the drop are taking a risk by changing manager - sometimes new ideas and tweaks in tactics and mentality can be transformational - just ask Forest fans. Refreshing improvement.
Joshua Worrall
There’s a reason why Nuno Espirito Santo gets a standing ovation when he goes back to Wolves and that’s because he’s such a well respected coach. If he keeps this up he’s bound to end up at one of the giants.
Richard, Brentford
Nott'm Forest 0-0 Aston Villa
Marc Albrighton
Former Aston Villa midfielder on BBC Radio 5 Live
It's just that last little bit. Villa just need that bit of quality in the final third when they get in those positions.
| Team | Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | Goals For | Goals Against | Goal Difference | Points | Form, Last 6 games, Oldest first |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 15 | 11 | 3 | 1 | 31 | 13 | 18 | 36 |
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| 15 | 9 | 4 | 2 | 35 | 18 | 17 | 31 |
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| 16 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 29 | 15 | 14 | 30 |
| |
| 16 | 8 | 4 | 4 | 21 | 19 | 2 | 28 |
| |
| 15 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 27 | 21 | 6 | 27 |
| |
| 16 | 7 | 4 | 5 | 24 | 25 | -1 | 25 |
| |
| 15 | 6 | 6 | 3 | 25 | 22 | 3 | 24 |
| |
| 15 | 7 | 3 | 5 | 23 | 20 | 3 | 24 |
| |
| 16 | 6 | 6 | 4 | 24 | 22 | 2 | 24 |
| |
| 15 | 7 | 2 | 6 | 31 | 28 | 3 | 23 |
| |
| 16 | 6 | 5 | 5 | 23 | 21 | 2 | 23 |
| |
| 15 | 6 | 2 | 7 | 31 | 19 | 12 | 20 |
| |
| 15 | 5 | 4 | 6 | 19 | 18 | 1 | 19 |
| |
| 15 | 5 | 3 | 7 | 20 | 28 | -8 | 18 |
| |
| 15 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 14 | 21 | -7 | 15 |
| |
| 16 | 3 | 5 | 8 | 21 | 34 | -13 | 14 |
| |
| 15 | 2 | 7 | 6 | 14 | 20 | -6 | 13 |
| |
| 16 | 2 | 6 | 8 | 16 | 28 | -12 | 12 |
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| 16 | 2 | 3 | 11 | 24 | 40 | -16 | 9 |
| |
| 15 | 1 | 2 | 12 | 11 | 31 | -20 | 5 |
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Manager: Nuno EspÃrito Santo
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Unai Emery
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Nuno EspÃrito Santo
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
Manager: Unai Emery
Formation: 4 - 2 - 3 - 1
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Nottingham Forest have won just one of their last 11 Premier League games against Aston Villa (D5 L5), though it was a 2-0 victory in this exact fixture last season.
Aston Villa are winless in their last five Premier League away games against Nottingham Forest, though four of these have ended level (L1). Their last such victory was in January 1995 under Brian Little (2-1).
This will be Nottingham Forest’s 5,000th match in the top four tiers of English football, the 12th side to reach that milestone in English Football League history.
Nottingham Forest have won three of their last four home games in the Premier League (L1), as many as their previous 17 beforehand (W3 D4 L10). They have also kept three clean sheets in those last four, as many as they had in their previous 30 at the City Ground in the competition.
Aston Villa have lost each of their last three away league games, their longest such run since losing four in a row from May to August 2022. All three defeats in their current spell have been by 2+ goals – the Villans last lost more in succession by such a margin on the road in the league in September 1968 as a second-tier side (5).
Nottingham Forest are 5th in the Premier League but have lost each of their last six Premier League games when they’ve gone into a match in the top five of the division, scoring just twice and conceding 20 goals across these six defeats which range from 1995 to 2024.
Aston Villa won seven of their first 12 Premier League games under Unai Emery against teams starting the day in the top five of the table (D1 L4) but have since lost five of their last seven (W1 D1), including all three this season by an aggregate score of 7-0.
Morgan Gibbs-White both scored and assisted in Nottingham Forest’s 3-2 victory at Old Trafford, the fifth time he’s scored and assisted in a Premier League game for Forest, the joint most of any player along with Ian Woan.
Chris Wood is one of only four players to score 10+ Premier League goals this season – he is the first Nottingham Forest player to score 10 Premier League goals in a season before Christmas, while he’s the first Forest player to do so in a league season since Lewis Grabban in the Championship in 2021-22.
Jhon Durán – who turns 21 the day before this game – has scored 10 Premier League goals for Aston Villa, netting the winner in four of their seven wins this season. He’s one of three players to score 10 goals for Villa before turning 21, along with Gabriel Agbonlahor (13) and Luke Moore (11).
