Tottenham equal unwanted 52-year record in Nottingham Forest draw as attacking problems mount

By Ben Knapton | 05 Sep 2026 17:23, Last updated: 05 Sep 2026 17:23

Tottenham Hotspur equalled an unwanted 52-year nine grounds successful their uninspiring 0-0 draw with Nottingham Forest astatine the City Ground successful the Premier League.

Roberto De Zerbi's men travelled northbound winless, pointless and goalless from their opening 2 top-flight games of the season, falling to Brentford and Newcastle United portion shipping 5 goals successful total.

The Lilywhites received a invited fittingness boost up of kickoff connected Saturday, arsenic Savio returned from a insignificant muscular contented to marque the archetypal XI aft his standout debut against Charlton Athletic successful the EFL Cup.

However, the erstwhile Manchester City attacker could not animate Spurs to their archetypal triumph of the play against Oliver Glasner's side, who came the closest to stealing each 3 points.

The Tricky Trees thought that they had breached the deadlock erstwhile Neco Williams bundled the shot implicit the line, but the extremity was disallowed pursuing a VAR review, arsenic the right-back was deemed to person handled the ball.

Tottenham neglect to people successful archetypal 3 Premier League games for archetypal clip ever

Tottenham nevertheless managed 1.57 xG compared to the hosts' 0.65, but they missed 2 large chances and are inactive waiting for their archetypal Premier League extremity of the season.

As a result, Spurs person failed to people successful their archetypal 3 games of a Premier League play for the archetypal clip ever, and for the archetypal clip successful implicit fractional a period successful the apical formation altogether.

The past clip Tottenham opened a league play without scoring successful their opening 3 games was successful 1974-75, erstwhile they yet finished 11th successful the array with 14 wins, 14 draws and 14 losses.

The Lilywhites' gully astatine the City Ground connected Saturday astatine slightest saw De Zerbi's men enactment their archetypal constituent connected the board, and they person temporarily climbed retired of the relegation portion successful the Premier League table arsenic a result.

However, Tottenham volition driblet backmost down into the bottommost 3 if Aston Villa either bushed Hull City oregon play retired a people gully with the Tigers successful the 5.30pm kickoff.

Did Roberto De Zerbi marque a mistake successful Tottenham gully with Forest?

De Zerbi made 3 changes to his Tottenham lineup for the clash with Forest, arsenic Savio, Conor Gallagher and Destiny Udogie replaced Archie Gray, Mateus Fernandes and Andy Robertson.

The Italian kept religion successful Omar Marmoush up front, but the Egyptian failed to person a changeable connected people and missed 1 large accidental successful the stalemate with the Garibaldi.

De Zerbi waited until the 84th infinitesimal to swap retired Marmoush for Dominic Solanke, who had small clip to marque an interaction astatine 1 of his favourite stadiums.

Prior to Saturday's game, Solanke had been progressive successful six goals successful 4 league games astatine the City Ground against Forest, including a hat-trick for Bournemouth successful 2023.

There is nary warrant that Solanke's past feats would person translated into different extremity today, but different scoreless showing gives De Zerbi a superior contented to solve.