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Sutton's predictions: Nottingham Forest v Man Utdpublished at 12:34 GMT 1 November
12:34 GMT 1 November
The Nottingham Forest fans seem to be happy with Sean Dyche as manager and I think they will be patient with him - he has that affiliation with the club after starting his playing career there.
I think they might have to wait a bit longer for his first Premier League win, though.
Manchester United have picked up a bit, and Bryan Mbeumo and Matheus Cunha are proving me right after I said in the summer they would prove to be great signings.
They bring great variation when they play together - Mbeumo runs in behind, while Cunha comes deep looking for the ball to feet - and they both link the attack so well.
Defensively, there are still problems with United, however.
They have put together a three-game winning streak but they are not at the stage where I trust them to turn up every week, and I can see that run coming to an end here.
Nottingham Forest v Manchester United: Key stats and talking pointspublished at 19:06 GMT 31 October
19:06 GMT 31 October
Matthew Hobbs BBC Sport journalist
Sean Dyche takes charge of his first Premier League home game as Nottingham Forest head coach against a Manchester United side who have won three games in a row for the first time under head coach Ruben Amorim.
BBC Sport examines some of the key themes ahead of Saturday's clash at the City Ground.
United winning with confidence
Amorim puts United's upturn in fortunes down to one of football's most valuable commodities – confidence.
Following the 4-2 win against Brighton at Old Trafford last weekend, Amorim said: "I think (the players) are more confident.
"I think the best game we did this season was against Arsenal (a 1-0 defeat) but then, when you are a little bit more confident, when you have a different spirit, sometimes you have a little bit of luck in certain moments of the game that help you to win."
From matchday three onwards, only Arsenal have picked up more points than United's 15, while Amorim's side are the leading scorers in the division during this period with 14 goals.
A switch in focus to more direct attacks has helped United's cause in recent weeks – particularly utilising long balls from goalkeeper Senne Lammens, who has replaced Altay Bayindir over the last three matches.
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United have switched tactics to play long more often in recent matches
Bryan Mbeumo's return to form has also underpinned United's rise to sixth in the Premier League table.
The £65m summer signing's brace against Brighton made it three goals in two matches following one in his opening seven league appearances since joining from Brentford.
Only Erling Haaland and Mohamed Salah have been involved in more Premier League goals in 2025 than Mbeumo's 20 and the forward's form is another example of the increasing confidence at Old Trafford.
Dyche lost his first Premier League game as Forest boss 2-0 at Bournemouth last Sunday.
While Dyche later said that Forest had been unable to live with Bournemouth physically, his side's approach at the Vitality Stadium reflected tactics typically associated with the former Everton and Burnley manager.
Forest played 16.9% of their passes long against the Cherries, far higher than their average of 8.5% under Ange Postecoglou, while goalkeeper Matz Sels played 25 long passes versus Bournemouth, the most by a Forest player in a game this season.
Since the start of 2024-25, Dyche's teams (Forest and Everton) have played more long balls than any other Premier League side and recorded the fewest sequences of 10 passes or more.
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Forest boss Sean Dyche is known for favouring direct tactics
Such an approach may well suit a squad used to playing direct football under former boss Nuno Espirito Santo to great success, but Forest's failure to score in Dyche's opening league outing is a familiar problem for their manager.
Dyche has now seen his teams fail to score in 10 of his last 14 Premier League games, including nine with Everton.
Among managers to take charge of 150 games in Premier League history, Dyche's goals-per-game ratio of 0.97 is the lowest of them all.
'The balance has been clearly wrong' - Dyche on Forest's goalscoring troublespublished at 12:46 GMT 31 October
12:46 GMT 31 October
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Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche says he has to be "realistic" about the club's recent goalscoring troubles and that he and his staff "haven't got magic dust".
Despite finding the net five times in three Europa League matches, Forest are on a run of just one goal in seven Premier League matches - stretching across Ange Postecoglou's short tenure back to Nuno Espirito Santo's final game in charge in August.
"It's certainly a big challenge," Dyche told BBC Radio Nottingham's Colin Fray.
"I'm very experienced nowadays in the Premier League and so are my staff, but we haven't got magic dust.
"You can't just suddenly make people score lots of goals. What you are doing is trying to form a style of play that creates more chances and better chances and then it inevitably comes down to someone putting it in the net.
"It's been an ongoing challenge from last season as well. If you took Woody's [Chris Wood] goals out of it suddenly you go 'woah it's a whole bigger challenge'.
"Towards the end of last season going into this season, if you look at the facts and stats - just to share it honestly there is no brushing it under the carpet.
"We have to look honestly at what the group were, are, and what we have to change it to. We have to be realistic and equally look at the talent we've got and think how can we form more chances and a better quality of chance with what we've got while keeping the back door unlocked - which they did so well last season.
"We have to find the balance but the balance has been clearly wrong since the end of last season to the beginning of this season where the team has not scored as many and conceded more.
"That has been apparent to everyone and now it's our job to tighten up both boxes because that's where the real stuff happens.
"That's the biggest thing we're trying to fathom - what makes us good in our box defensively and what can allow us the freedom to go and attack and create more chances.
"That's what we're trying to sort out here."
Readers can digest on the post below where Colin Fray said the Reds' scoring record is a "horrendous statistic" and brings with it a significant hurdle when battling relegation.
One goal in past seven league games is 'horrendous statistic'published at 09:26 GMT 31 October
09:26 GMT 31 October
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BBC Radio Nottingham's Colin Fray says Nottingham Forest's run of scoring just one goal in their past seven Premier League games is a "relegation statistic".
Forest's only goal in this period was a Neco Williams strike in a 1-1 draw against Burnley under Ange Postecoglou in September.
Sean Dyche confirmed on Thursday that Chris Wood will not be fit to face Manchester United on Saturday and summer signing Igor Jesus is yet to open his Premier League account, despite scoring three times in the Europa League and twice in the Carabao Cup.
"It's got to be worry - scoring goals is what it is about," Fray told the Shut Up And Show More Football podcast.
"When you add in pre-season, where they barely scored a goal, this has been going on for some time.
"The outlier at the minute seems to be that opening-day win over Brentford when they scored three goals in half an hour.
"To have gone seven Premier League matches, under three different managers, scoring only one goal is a horrendous statistic.
"It is definitely one that will be worrying Dyche. Yes, they're scoring goals in the cup competitions, but it's not many from open play.
"There is an issue with the number of goals scored and, in recent games, chances created. Against Bournemouth, they created very little.
"There were a couple of games in the early stages under Postecoglou where it was chance after chance so maybe it is a little bit of a confidence issue as well."
Fray added: "There is a bit in Forest where they are just not getting the ball into the penalty area when they are in the situation where they might be able to, or as much as Dyche would want them to.
"They are perhaps looking up and seeing nobody to aim at, or have only got the striker up there with no midfielders getting forward.
"It's a combination of all these factors that is leading to a drought in front of goal in the league.
"It's a relegation statistic - if you can't score goals, you have no hope."
'Clickbait kills everything' - Amorim and Dyche have their saypublished at 09:24 GMT 31 October
09:24 GMT 31 October
Manchester United head coach Ruben Amorim and Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche both respond to the Englishman's comments from earlier this year that he would win more games as Red Devils manager using a 4-4-2 formation.
The year of the dead ballpublished at 08:08 GMT 31 October
08:08 GMT 31 October
This - it seems - is the season of the set piece.
The Premier League debates are more about dead balls than ever before, with some sides enjoying immense success from corner kicks, throw ins or well-worked free-kicks.
What fine timing then for BBC Sport to launch a column with former manager Tony Pulis, a man who seemed to finely extract the fine margins from the game.
🎧 New episode of Shut Up And Show More Footballpublished at 17:16 GMT 30 October
17:16 GMT 30 October
On the latest episode of Shut Up And Show More Football, BBC Radio Nottingham's Colin Fray and David Jackson take a closer look at Nottingham Forest's new era under Sean Dyche - what is changing in terms of style, structure and mentality.
There is also a discussion about whether Forest have what it takes to stay clear of a relegation battle this season.
Dyche on Wood's fitness, finding 'consistency' and Amorimpublished at 15:23 GMT 30 October
15:23 GMT 30 October
Nat Hayward BBC Sport journalist
Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche has been speaking to the media before Saturday's Premier League game against Manchester United at the City Ground (15:00 GMT).
Here are the key lines from his news conference:
Dyche began by providing an update on Chris Wood's fitness: "Wood is possible for the Leeds game, but won't make this one."
Elsewhere, Oleksandr Zinchenko's return is "taking longer than we thought", Dilane Bakwa is "still a no but is making good progress", Ola Aina is "making good progress" and Angus Gunn has "opened up his knee ligaments".
On comments he made on 'The Overlap' suggesting he could have won more games than Ruben Amorim as United boss: "I didn't question him as a person and I would never do that. Clickbait kills anything. The basics may have worked better was my suggestion and they have changed their style, so fair play to him. They are playing quicker forward and longer, a bit tighter in getting back into their shape. That's management, that's coaching."
On Morgan Gibbs-White: "He's a terrific professional, he comes in with a smile and wants to work. He's infectious in what he does and enjoys what he does. He, among a number of others, have taken to it really well and want to progress and move forward for the team, me, the club and the fans."
Dyche said his side "flat-lined a bit physically and emotionally" in last weekend's defeat at Bournemouth after the "newness, freshness and new voices" that were present in the Europa League win over Porto in his first match in charge.
More on the squad's adaptation to his methods: "It's finding that level of consistency daily and getting the players to produce that level daily. There's been a lot of changes for the players, some of them have had three managers in a very short space of time. You hope it works straight away but it is difficult to achieve that."
On Ryan Yates: "He's been terrific. You want those kind of players to deliver out there on the pitch, of course, and that's where they really make their names but some also make it from inside the camp and what they do around the club too. He's always ready and a shining light for that."
'Clubs can sometimes panic – and quickly'published at 17:02 GMT 29 October
17:02 GMT 29 October
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Chief football writer Phil McNulty has been answering your questions on all things Premier League.
Dan asked: There was a time in football (barely one or two seasons ago) where everyone including managers said "judge the team after 10 games". With the situation at Nottingham Forest and everyone having meltdowns over Liverpool, that seems to have gone out of the window. Why?
Phil answered: The days of managers getting two or three seasons before their work is assessed went out of the window a long time ago. The fear of relegation, and the financial implications, holds clubs in its icy grip so decisions are taken much more quickly.
The penalties for failure are so high these days, that clubs can sometimes panic - and quickly.
I think Forest was a situation where the relationship between owner Evangelos Marinakis and manager Nuno Espirito Santo had broken down irretrievably - such a shame after getting into Europe.
Marinakis then made a mistake in going for Ange Postecoglou, simply because it meant Forest going straight from A to Z in terms of approach. You could not get a more different style than Postecoglou's all-out attack from Nuno's counter-attacking approach, although Postecoglou was hardly given a chance to instigate his changes before Forest fans decided he was not for them.
Now Forest are back to the more conservative, pragmatic approach of Sean Dyche so let's see how that works.
Bournemouth 2-0 Nottingham Forest - the fans' verdictpublished at 10:22 GMT 27 October
10:22 GMT 27 October
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We asked for your thoughts after Sunday's Premier League game between Bournemouth and Nottingham Forest.
Here are some of your comments:
Bournemouth fans
Steve: We absolutely, utterly deserve to be second. We are excellent, exciting and also very strong throughout the whole team.
Stewart: It's quite simple, really - the performance has always been very good. Keep this team together until the end of the season, and that includes the coach, and we will play in Europe.
Andrew: We are truly living in a parallel universe - from minus 17 points to second place in the Premier League. This Iraola team really doesn't know its place.
Nottingham Forest fans
Terry: This just goes to show that you can't buy a good team unless you know what you're doing. Forest are a Championship team, not Premier League, and will be relegated no matter how much they spend or how many managers they have.
Steve B: It was always going to be tough after the high of Porto. We were dire on set pieces and lacked fight, especially in the first half. However, we have 29 games left, 87 points up for grabs. Confident that Dyche will get us better organised and the results will come.
Neil: Lacked any urgency, even on rare attacking positions and always chose the wrong option. Slow sideways and backwards passes all game. No runners into space and lost every 50/50 challenge. Didn't look like they wanted to win. We are in big, big trouble.
Analysis: Long road ahead for Dychepublished at 18:27 GMT 26 October
18:27 GMT 26 October
Matthew Howarth BBC Sport journalist
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Set against the backdrop of Ange Postecoglou's disastrous reign, the atmosphere at the City Ground prior to Nottingham Forest's Europa League win over Porto felt like a breath of fresh air as the home fans showed their support for new boss Sean Dyche.
Sunday's defeat at Bournemouth, however, only served to underline the magnitude of the task facing the 54-year-old at Forest - although better teams will come unstuck at Vitality Stadium this season.
The visitors struggled to match the Cherries' trademark intensity in the first half, managing only one touch inside the Bournemouth half and only one shot on target - through full-back Neco Williams.
Forest were rightly frustrated at the officials' decision not to award a goal-kick in the build-up to Bournemouth's opener, but goalkeeper Matz Sels will have to take his share of the blame for Marcus Tavernier's goal directly from a corner, despite being nudged by Tyler Adams as the ball sailed over his head.
Dyche responded to his team's insipid first-half display by replacing Douglas Luiz, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Igor Jesus with Ryan Yates, Omari Hutchinson and Taiwo Awoniyi at the interval - and the visitors certainly started the second period with greater urgency.
But Morgan Gibbs-White's late effort was by far their best opportunity of the contest, leaving Dyche with plenty to ponder before next weekend's game at home to in-form Manchester United.
Bournemouth 2-0 Nottingham Forest: What Dyche saidpublished at 18:24 GMT 26 October
18:24 GMT 26 October
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Nottingham Forest boss Sean Dyche spoke to BBC Match of the Day after his side's defeat away at Bournemouth: "We came to a side who are statistically number one in the league, physically, and they showed it. Their desire, their endeavour to just do the hard yards. It's a lack of understanding from our group but I don't think they can carry it out yet so we've got a lot of work to do on that side of things, just physically, I spoke to the players about that when I got in.
"But they've been terrific, I must make it clear, a bad result today, bad performance particularly [in the] first half so there's no denying that but they have been excellent. They've absorbed it, they've taken it on, they did so well on Thursday [against Porto] but the first half they were miles short.
"There's a lot of work to be done. I didn't come into this job naively, the league table does tell a story so I'm never thinking there wasn't work to be done but it showed particularly in the first half today."
On how Bournemouth's first goal from a corner should have been a goal kick: "[If I show frustration] then I get booked, and you're scratching your head because they wonder why you're getting annoyed. We can see it from miles away. The linesperson gives it as a goal kick, that was clear, the referee overrules him from a wrong position. That is really frustrating."
Did you know?
Nottingham Forest have now gone 448 minutes of Premier League action without a goal, since Neco Williams netted after two minutes against Burnley at the end of September. It's also the first time they have gone four consecutive Premier League matches without a goal since November 1994 (run of five).
Bournemouth v Nottingham Forest: Team news published at 13:04 GMT 26 October
13:04 GMT 26 October
Bournemouth make one change to side who drew to Crystal Palace last weekend as boss Andoni Iraola brings in Veljko Milosavljevic for his second league start and drops Bafode Diakite to the bench.
Sean Dyche also makes one change to the Nottingham Forest team that started Thursday's 2-0 Europa League victory over Porto.
Nicolo Savona, a half-time substitute against the Portuguese side, replaces the injured Oleksandr Zinchenko at left-back, while striker Chris Wood also misses the game with a knee problem.
Nottingham Forest XI: Sels, Williams, Milenkovic, Murillo, Savona, Douglas Luiz, Anderson, Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Jesus
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