Aiming for their first-ever Premier League double over Liverpool, Nottingham Forest host the Reds at the City Ground on Sunday afternoon, when Vitor Pereira takes charge of his maiden top-flight match for the Tricky Trees.
Sean Dyche's successor kicked off his reign with a Turkish bang on Thursday evening, when his Garibaldi side shocked Fenerbahce 3-0 in Europa League action to snap a three-match winless sequence across all competitions.
Pereira also takes over with Forest just about keeping their heads above water in the top flight, sitting 17th in the Premier League tablewith a three-point gap to West Ham United in 18th spot.
Sticking with the theme of threes, Liverpool also prevailed 3-0 in their most recent showdown - easing past Brighton & Hove Albion in the FA Cup - and the Reds are three points worse off than Manchester United in the coveted fourth position.
Ahead of Sunday's intriguing Premier League showdown, Sports Mole takes a closer look at the head-to-head record and previous meetings between Liverpool and Forest.
Head-to-head record
Previous meetings: 123
Liverpool wins: 60
Draws: 30
Nott'm Forest wins: 33
Boasting close to a 50% success rate against Nottingham Forest, Liverpool have triumphed in 60 of the previous 123 clashes between the two clubs, while the Garibaldi only have 33 successes to their name against the six-time European champions.
However, the most recent of those victories unexpectedly came at Anfield in November 2025, when strikes from Murillo, Nicolo Savona and Morgan Gibbs-White earned Sean Dyche's mean a famous 3-0 win at the ground.
That was the club's second consecutive triumph at Anfield having previously beaten the Reds at the stadium in September 2024, when Callum Hudson-Odoi's exquisite strike condemned Arne Slot to his first competitive defeat as Liverpool head coach.
Another 30 contests have ended level, including a frenetic 1-1 draw in January 2025, but the Tricky Trees certainly felt robbed of a slice of the spoils in their home affair in the 2023-24 season.
On a fateful March day at the City Ground, Liverpool stole a priceless 1-0 victory thanks to Darwin Nunez's 99th-minute winner before bedlam broke loose, with Forest owner Evangelos Marinakis allegedly going after referee Paul Tierney in the tunnel.
The contest at Anfield earlier in the 2023-24 campaign was far less heated, as the Reds made light work of their opponents in a 3-0 triumph, having also won a five-goal thriller 3-2 at home in the closing stages of the 2022-23 campaign.
However, the Tricky Trees have now had Liverpool's number three times in the Premier League this millennium, as a strike from ex-Reds attacker Taiwo Awoniyi propelled them to a shock 1-0 win in October 2022.
That City Ground contest marked just the second meeting between Liverpool and Forest in the 21st century; the first saw the Reds win a 2021-22 FA Cup quarter-final 1-0 thanks to a goal from Diogo Jota, who boasted six in five games against the Tricky Trees before his untimely death.
Before the 2024-25 season, Forest had to go back a staggering 55 and a half years for their most recent league win away to Liverpool - a 2-0 triumph over Bill Shankly's Reds in February 1969 - only for the Reds to fall short in both clashes during Slot's debut term.
Liverpool unsurprisingly dominate the individual goalscoring column in this head-to-head too, with Roger Hunt and Ian Rush the highest documented scorers in this fixture with 10 goals apiece.
Last 20 meetings
Nov 22, 2025: Liverpool 0-3 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Jan 14, 2025: Nott'm Forest 1-1 Liverpool (Premier League)
Sep 14, 2024: Liverpool 0-1 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Mar 02, 2024: Nott'm Forest 0-1 Liverpool (Premier League)
Oct 29, 2023: Liverpool 3-0 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Apr 22, 2023: Liverpool 3-2 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Oct 22, 2022: Nott'm Forest 1-0 Liverpool (Premier League)
Mar 20, 2022: Nott'm Forest 0-1 Liverpool (FA Cup Quarter-Finals)
Apr 05, 1999: Nott'm Forest 2-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Oct 24, 1998: Liverpool 5-1 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Mar 15, 1997: Nott'm Forest 1-1 Liverpool (Premier League)
Dec 17, 1996: Liverpool 4-2 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Mar 23, 1996: Nott'm Forest 1-0 Liverpool (Premier League)
Jan 01, 1996: Liverpool 4-2 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Feb 04, 1995: Nott'm Forest 1-1 Liverpool (Premier League)
Nov 05, 1994: Liverpool 1-0 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Feb 06, 1993: Liverpool 0-0 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Aug 16, 1992: Nott'm Forest 1-0 Liverpool (Premier League)
Apr 22, 1992: Nott'm Forest 1-1 Liverpool (First Division)
Dec 14, 1991: Liverpool 2-1 Nott'm Forest (First Division)
Last 10 Premier League meetings
Nov 22, 2025: Liverpool 0-3 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Jan 14, 2025: Nott'm Forest 1-1 Liverpool (Premier League)
Sep 14, 2024: Liverpool 0-1 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Mar 02, 2024: Nott'm Forest 0-1 Liverpool (Premier League)
Oct 29, 2023: Liverpool 3-0 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Apr 22, 2023: Liverpool 3-2 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Oct 22, 2022: Nott'm Forest 1-0 Liverpool (Premier League)
Apr 05, 1999: Nott'm Forest 2-2 Liverpool (Premier League)
Oct 24, 1998: Liverpool 5-1 Nott'm Forest (Premier League)
Mar 15, 1997: Nott'm Forest 1-1 Liverpool (Premier League)