Nottingham Forest roundup: winless start, window moves and Spurs up next

Where Forest stand

According to the Premier League table, Nottingham Forest sit 12th as September opens, with one point from two matches. The early line reads one draw, one defeat, two goals scored and three conceded — a goal difference of -1 that leaves Forest below Liverpool in 11th and above AFC Bournemouth in 13th, the Cherries carrying an identical record. At the summit, Manchester City and Hull City have both started with six points from six.

The results so far

FanTribe's match data records two scored outings for Forest: a 1-1 draw at home to AFC Bournemouth and a 0-1 home defeat by Leeds United, a sequence the table logs as form "D, L". Both came with Forest listed as the home side, which makes a one-point return feel modest. A visit to Liverpool also appears in our results feed as finished, though no scoreline had been recorded in that data at the time of writing.

Window business

The close of the transfer window produced two Forest stories on the BBC Sport wire:

• Forest forward Hutchinson joins AC Milan on loan — reported on 31 August.
• Forest complete £22m Munoz signing from Palace — reported the same day.

Both moves come from BBC Sport's reporting and had not been reflected in FanTribe's structured data at the time of writing, so registration details remain to be confirmed.

What's next

Forest host Tottenham on Saturday 5 September (3pm BST kick-off), and the table frames the occasion starkly: Spurs arrive 20th, having lost both of their matches without scoring, according to the Premier League table. The odds attached to FanTribe's fixture data nevertheless suggest a tight contest, with Forest narrow favourites at 2.6, the draw at 3.55 and Tottenham at 2.92.

The following Saturday, 12 September, brings a trip to Aston Villa. The table shows Villa 18th after one game — a defeat in which they scored none and conceded four — yet the fixture odds still price them favourites at 2.02, with Forest outsiders at 3.9 and the draw at 3.6.

Over to you

The most striking number in FanTribe's own club data is an uncomfortable one: the Forest fan hub currently registers zero supporters. There is, as a result, no crowd-sentiment reading to publish this week — no supporter verdict on the winless start, the Hutchinson loan or the Munoz fee. Reds who want their view counted can join the hub and change that figure.

Two matches is too small a sample for verdicts, and a home game against a struggling Spurs side offers as clean a chance as any to turn one point into a first win.