Nottingham Forest roundup: 13th after five, scorers level and Selhurst Park next

Where Forest stand

According to the Premier League table, Nottingham Forest sit 13th after five matches with five points — one win, two draws and two defeats — from four goals scored and five conceded, a goal difference of -1. That leaves them two points clear of the bottom three and level with Manchester United in 12th. The form guide reads LWDDL, and the most recent result is the one that stings: a 1-0 defeat at home to Coventry City.

The results in brief

• Nottingham Forest 0-1 Coventry City — the latest listed outing, a narrow home reverse
• Aston Villa 1-2 Nottingham Forest — an away win before that
• Nottingham Forest 0-0 Tottenham Hotspur — a goalless draw at the City Ground

The other two matches in the five-game account, one draw and one defeat, complete the form guide.

The scoring spread

FanTribe's top-scorer data shows four players tied on one goal apiece: D. Ndoye, Igor Jesus, Liam Delap and M. Gibbs-White. Nobody has taken hold of the scoring, and with only four goals in five league matches, Forest have not been able to lean on a single source.

Next up: Crystal Palace away

Forest travel to Selhurst Park on 11 October for a 13:00 UTC kick-off. According to the table, Crystal Palace are 15th with four points from five games and, per the form guide, on the back of two straight defeats.

The latest bookmaker odds, via api_football and dated 20 September, price Palace at 2.62, the draw at 3.38 and Forest at 2.63. The market data lists no favourite, and its verdict is that the market is "tightly split between the outcomes". The bookmaker-derived implied probabilities are 36% for a Palace win, 28% for the draw and 36% for a Forest win — a reading of the market, not a forecast of the afternoon.

On FanTribe, the points on offer tell the same story: 52 points for a Palace win, 68 for the draw and 53 for backing Forest.

Then: Arsenal at the City Ground

Arsenal follow on 18 October, kicking off at 15:30 UTC at the City Ground. According to the table, the visitors sit second with 12 points from five matches and four straight wins behind them — form LWWWW — with eight goals scored and four conceded. On the table's evidence, it is the tougher of Forest's two listed October fixtures.

Fan sentiment on FanTribe

FanTribe's own fan data — the terrace read only we can offer — currently shows a Nottingham Forest fan count of one on the platform. One Red has planted the flag; the rest of the support has room to join them, take a position on the Selhurst Park market and be counted before the October fixtures arrive.

Five points, a four-way tie at the top of the scoring list and a home defeat to digest — that, according to the numbers, is where Nottingham Forest stand, with a tightly split trip to south London next on the agenda.