Brighton have kept a clean sheet in their last four home league games against Nottingham Forest (3 wins, 1 draw). The team lost the previous two games, conceding three goals in each.

Nottingham Forest remained unbeaten in eight top-flight meetings with Brighton between 1980 and 2023 (6 wins, 2 draws), but lost both home and away to the Seagulls last season.

Brighton are unbeaten in the Premier League this season (W2 D2). They have never gone unbeaten in their first five games of a top-flight campaign, the last time they did this in a league was in the 2015–16 Championship.

Brighton have drawn their last two Premier League games. Of all the teams that have played more than one season in the competition, the Seagulls’ games have ended in draws the most often (32.2% – 87/270).

Nottingham Forest are unbeaten in their last five Premier League games (W3 D2). They have won two and drawn two so far this season. They last went unbeaten in their first five league games in 2018/19 (Championship), and last did so in the top flight in 1995/96.

Nottingham Forest have won their last four away games in the Premier League, more than they won in their first 36 away games after returning to the league in 2022 (W3, D9, L24). They last won five away games in a row (any league) in January 1994, and most recently in the top flight in March 1989.

Nottingham Forest have had more direct attacks (12) than any other team in the Premier League so far this season, while only West Ham (12) have had more such attacks against them than Brighton (10).

Nottingham Forest have scored exactly one goal in all five games this season in all competitions (4x League, 1x League Cup). The last top-flight club to score exactly one goal in their first six games of the season was Forest themselves in the 1988/89 season (5x League, 1x Centenary Trophy).

Brighton defender Jan Paul van Hecke has carried the ball the most times this Premier League season (116) and has subsequently carried it the furthest distance (1,149 metres) of any player to date.

Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White has created more chances from open play than any other player in the Premier League this season (11).