Nottingham Forest vs. Leeds United: Oliver Glasner bidding to extend 54-year streak in Premier League opener

Nottingham Forest volition beryllium looking to widen a 54-year streak erstwhile they play Leeds United.

The Tricky Trees and Lilywhites commence their 2026-27 Premier League run with a showdown astatine the City Ground.

These 2 teams became embroiled successful a relegation scrap during the closing months of past season, lone to articulation Tottenham Hotspur successful seeing disconnected the situation of West Ham United.

With Forest having appointed Oliver Glasner arsenic their caller caput manager and Leeds having made a fig of shrewd signings, optimism is precocious astatine some clubs.

Nevertheless, Leeds marque the travel to the East Midlands bidding to extremity a streak that has lasted much than half-a-century.

What streak tin Leeds extremity astatine Nottingham Forest?

Forest clasp a ascendant location grounds implicit Leeds successful league matches, a play which includes an ongoing streak of 4 successive victories.

Meanwhile, Leeds person incredibly failed to triumph connected their past 14 league visits to the City Ground, with 7 defeats and 7 draws being posted since a 2-0 triumph during the 1971-72 campaign.

On a affirmative note, though, Leeds emerged victorious connected the lone erstwhile juncture wherever they person faced Forest successful their opening top-flight match, that coming successful 1991-92 successful a play wherever they went connected to triumph the title.

Furthermore, Leeds person lone suffered decision connected the opening play of 2 of their past 18 top-flight seasons.

Those occurrences came against Liverpool and Manchester United successful 2020-21 and 2021-22 respectively.

Leeds are besides connected a comparatively bizarre tally of distant results successful the Premier League, with 9 of their past 12 specified games ending successful a draw.

Glasner bidding to extremity dismal Nottingham Forest manager record

As galore arsenic six antithetic Nottingham Forest managers successful a enactment person mislaid their archetypal Premier League lucifer successful charge.

Dave Bassett was the past Forest to gain occurrence successful his opening crippled each the mode backmost successful 1997 erstwhile helium posted a 1-0 occurrence astatine Tottenham Hotspur.