Liverpool’s poor away form over the last year has been laid bare by the fact they haven’t kept consecutive clean sheets away in the Premier League for 12 months.
Thanks to a 1-0 win at Sunderland in their last league outing, if Liverpool keep Nottingham Forest out, it would be their first instance of consecutive league away clean sheets for 12 months.
In addition, a victory would mark successive away league wins for the first time since September.
Having beaten Brighton 3-0 in the FA Cup, a Liverpool clean sheet against Forest would be the first time they have recorded three shutouts in a row since last March, when they kept clean sheets at Man City away, Newcastle at home and Paris Saint-Germain away.
Liverpool’s slow start and record against Nottingham Forest
NEWCASTLE-UPON-TYNE, ENGLAND - Monday, August 25, 2025: Liverpool's Ryan Gravenberch celebrates after scoring the first goal with teammate Dominik Szoboszlai during the FA Premier League match between Newcastle United FC and Liverpool FC at St James' Park. (Photo by David Rawcliffe/Propaganda)
Liverpool have scored only once in the opening 30 minutes of any league game since September and none in the last 10.
The Reds’ earliest goal in an away game this season came in the 35th minute of the 3-2 victory at Newcastle back in August, Ryan Gravenberch scoring the goal.
Forest were one of three teams that Liverpool failed to defeat in last season’s title-winning campaign, with Arsenal and Fulham being the others.
Liverpool lost 3-0 at home to Forest back in November. It meant that they lost back-to-back league games by a margin of three goals or more for the first time since 1965, having lost 3-0 at Man City in the previous match.
In the corresponding fixture last season, Diogo Jota headed in from a Kostas Tsimikas corner in the 66th minute, just 22 seconds after both had come on as substitutes. They had trailed to a Chris Wood goal in the eighth minute.
The 1-0 win two seasons ago, when Darwin Nunez headed the winner in minute 90+9′, is the Reds’ only victory at Forest in the last 15 league visits.
Nottingham Forest’s record number of managers
Vitor Pereira began his Nottingham Forest reign with victory (Mike Egerton/PA)
After recently sacking Sean Dyche and appointing Vitor Pereira, Forest became the first club in the Premier League era to employ four permanent managers in the same campaign. The other two were Ange Postecoglou and Nuno Espirito Santo.
Forest currently have 27 points from 26 games. At the same stage last season, they were 20 points better off.
They have won three of 13 home league games in this campaign, scoring just 13 times and losing six.
Home and away, they have lost one of the last six league matches – the 3-1 defeat at Leeds 16 days ago. However, since defeating Tottenham two months ago, they have not won any of their last five home league games.
This season’s scorers
Forest: Igor Jesus 12, Gibbs-White 8, Hudson-Odoi 5, Wood 3, Kalimuendo 2, Murillo 2, Ndoye 2, Sangare 2, Savona 2, Anderson 1, Awoniyi 1, Dominguez 1, Hutchinson 1, Lucca 1, McAtee 1, Milenkovic 1, Williams 1, Yates 1, own goals 1
Liverpool: Ekitike 15, Szoboszlai 10, Gakpo 7, Salah 7, Wirtz 6, Gravenberch 4, Van Dijk 4, Chiesa 3, Isak 3, Mac Allister 3, Frimpong 2, Konate 2, Jones 1, Kerkez 1, Ngumoha 1, Robertson 1, own goals 2
* Stats courtesy of LFC statistician Ged Rea (@ged0407).