Team news
Kalvin Phillips, Omar Hutchinson, Julio Enciso and Christian Walton are fit for Ipswich Town, having returned to the matchday squad last weekend following injury lay-offs.
Conor Chaplin has yet to resume group training, while Sammie Szmodics, Chiedozie Ogbene and Wes Burns are long-term absentees.
Back-up goalkeeper Carlos Miguel is expected to be Nottingham Forest's only absentee.
This will be Forest's 50th Premier League game under head coach Nuno Espirito Santo.
Match facts
Head-to-head
The most recent Premier League meeting between the sides at Portman Road was on 20 August 1994, when Brian Roy scored the only goal for Nottingham Forest.
Ipswich's last top-flight win in this fixture was a 2-1 home victory on the final day of the 1992-93 season, which was the final league match of Forest legend Brian Clough's managerial career.
The Blues are winless in five games versus Forest, including an FA Cup fifth round tie at the City Ground earlier this month that the hosts won on penalties after a 1-1 draw.
Ipswich Town
Ipswich have failed to win any of their opening nine league matches in a calendar year (D2, L7) for the first time in their history.
Kieran McKenna's men have also lost seven of their last eight Premier League home games, including all four since the turn of the year.
The Tractor Boys are winless in their previous 14 top-flight fixtures against sides starting the day in the top three (D2, L12), with their last such victory coming away to Liverpool in January 1995.
They have kept two top-flight clean sheets this season – only Leicester City, with one, have a worse record.
The Suffolk side had eight shots on target against Crystal Palace last weekend, the most by a Premier League team who failed to score for 14 months.
The Blues earned 32 points from losing positions in the Championship last term but have come from behind to claim just three points in 2024-25, the second worst record in the Premier League.
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest are unbeaten in their previous 10 Premier League games against newly promoted opposition (W7, D3), winning the last six in a row.
The Reds have kept 12 top-flight clean sheets this season, as many as in their previous two seasons combined.
That total is a club record in a 38-game Premier League season, and one short of their tally in 1994-95, set over 42 matches.
Forest have lost each of their past three away league matches, more defeats than in their previous 13 on the road.
This will be Nuno Espirito Santo's 50th Premier League fixture in charge of Forest.
