Liverpool vs Nottingham Forest: Premier League – preview, teams, prediction

Who: Liverpool vs Nottingham Forest
What: English Premier League
Where: Anfield, Liverpool, United Kingdom
When: Saturday, August 29, astatine 12:30pm (11:30 GMT)
How to follow: Al Jazeera Sport volition bring you each the buildup from 08:30 GMT up of our unrecorded substance commentary stream

Both sides are looking for their archetypal wins of the season, arsenic Liverpool big Forest astatine Anfield.

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Liverpool struggled successful their archetypal competitory crippled nether new brag Andoni Iraola, though they battled to travel backmost from down to salvage a 2-2 gully distant astatine Newcastle.

The Reds are inactive hoping to bolster their alternatively threadbare squad and are reportedly closing successful connected a woody to motion French guardant Bradley Barcola from Paris Saint-Germain.

Meanwhile, Forest person mislaid their archetypal 2 games of the play arsenic they statesman a caller epoch nether manager Oliver Glasner.

Forest mislaid some games astatine location to Leeds – the archetypal a 1-0 decision successful their opening league crippled past weekend, the 2nd a 2-0 midweek nonaccomplishment successful the League Cup.

So some teams volition beryllium precise anxious to find their signifier astatine Anfield and get backmost to winning ways.

Iraola hoping for ‘good quality soon’ successful transportation market

Liverpool’s caller brag said connected Thursday it is nary concealed the nine are successful the hunt for much wingers aft reports that the Reds are edging person to a woody for Barcola.

Liverpool person besides been credited with an involvement successful Brighton’s Yankuba Minteh and Crystal Palace’s Ismaila Sarr arsenic imaginable recruits to capable the void near by Mohamed Salah’s departure.

“We cannot speech astir players that close present are not ours, but it is evident that we are trying to amended oregon effort to capable that presumption due to the fact that we don’t person the numbers,” Iraola told a pre-match quality league up of his location debut against Nottingham Forest connected Saturday.

“I anticipation we person bully quality soon but we are inactive not there.”

The accomplishment of French planetary Barcola could pb to Cody Gakpo’s exit from Anfield.

The Dutchman, who scored successful Iraola’s archetypal lucifer successful complaint successful a 2-2 gully astatine Newcastle past weekend, is reportedly a people for Manchester City and Tottenham.

“When the marketplace is open, you cannot warrant thing with anyone. You ne'er cognize who’s going to arrive,” Iraola added erstwhile asked astir Gakpo’s future.

“I would similar to cognize however the marketplace finishes but I don’t cognize what volition hap with immoderate of our players. I cannot warrant anything.”

Iraola expresses his vexation to a lucifer authoritative during the gully astatine Newcastle connected Sunday [Molly Darlington/Getty Images]

‘I’m nary magician’: Glasner already feeling the heat

The Austrian expressed vexation with the recruitment concern astatine his caller nine aft their 2nd decision to Leeds, saying that Forest had “ignored reality” aft losing astatine location to Leeds for the 2nd clip successful a substance of days.

“The information is that this squad had a relegation conflict for 9 months. Very turbulent play and it ended with a immense effort to enactment successful the league, and this is our starting point,” helium said.

“It’s truly precise important not to blasted anybody due to the fact that sometimes I archer them facts and they say, ‘Oh, Glasner is complaining’.

“No, no, no. But [our] champion midfielder [Elliot Anderson] leaves the nine and present we expect we vie for European places due to the fact that Oliver Glasner is in. Sorry, this is what I can’t present wrong six weeks.

“I’m nary magician, nary messiah, conscionable hard work. That is what we person to do.”

Glasner should astatine slightest beryllium pleased that Forest broke the club’s transportation grounds connected Thursday to motion the talented, but out-of-favour young striker Liam Delap from Chelsea for a reported 45 cardinal pounds ($61m).

Glasner during the League Cup decision to Leeds United astatine the City Ground [David Rogers/Getty Images]

Prediction

The Opta supercomputer has made Liverpool the favourites, with a triumph probability of 61.1 percent. Forest were fixed a 18.2 percent accidental of winning, portion a gully was estimated astatine a 20.7 percent likelihood.

Head-to-head

They person faced each different 124 times; Liverpool winning 61, Forest 33 and 30 draws.

Last 5 encounters:

• February 22, 2026: Forest 0-1 Liverpool (Premier League)
• November 22, 2025: Liverpool 0-3 Forest (Premier League)
• January 14, 2025: Forest 1-1 Liverpool (Premier League)
• September 14, 2024: Liverpool 0-1 Forest (Premier League)
• March 02, 2024: Forest 0-1 Liverpool (Premier League)

What happened erstwhile Liverpool and Forest past played?

Liverpool midfielder Alexis Mac Allister struck the victor heavy into stoppage-time arsenic his broadside snatched a scarcely-deserved 1-0 triumph astatine Forest successful the Premier League successful February.

After a pedestrian 90 minutes successful which they hardly managed a changeable connected target, Mac Allister lit the fuse with a stoppage-time effort that was ruled retired for handball earlier rifling location a rebound successful the 97th infinitesimal to drawback the win.

Mac Allister celebrates scoring the precocious victor for Liverpool astatine the the City Ground [Chris Radburn/Reuters]

Liverpool’s squad news

The Reds are missing a fig of semipermanent casualties, including guardant Hugo Ekitike, who is recovering from an Achilles injury, arsenic good arsenic right-back Conor Bradley and centre-back Giovanni Leoni, who person genu issues.

Defender Joe Gomez remains sidelined owed to a musculus injury.

Alexander Isak is again apt to play astatine centre forward, with Florian Wirtz playing down him successful the fig 10 role. Cody Gakpo is acceptable to play connected the near wing, contempt reported involvement from different clubs.

Victor Munoz impressed erstwhile helium came disconnected the seat against Newcastle, and whitethorn commencement retired connected the close helping successful spot of Rio Ngumoha.

Predicted starting XI:

Alisson (goalkeeper); Frimpong, Jacquet, Van Dijk, Kerkez; Szoboszlai, Gravenberch; Munoz, Wirtz, Gakpo; Isak

Forest’s squad news

Defender Nicolo Savona has been ruled retired aft a setback successful his instrumentality from a genu problem, portion injured midfielder Ryan Yates is besides acceptable to miss out.

Full-back Neco Williams and playmaker Morgan Gibbs-White are some doubts owed to knocks, though Forest are hopeful that some cardinal players volition beryllium acceptable successful time.

Predicted starting XI:

Sels (goalkeeper); Cunha, Milenkovic, Murillo; Aina, McAtee, Sangare, Netz; Gibbs-White, Ndoye; Jesus