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| Team | Games | Run | Unbeaten | Winless | Scored in | Conceded in | Last-5 pts | Last-5 goals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunderland W | 15 | D1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 7/15 | 8-6 |
| Nottingham Forest W | 15 | W1 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 4 | 8/15 | 6-7 |
Computed over each team's finished games before kickoff — see the Games column for the sample behind each row.
Aggregated from 2 finished meetings (2025-12-07 – 2026-03-11) in the GioScore fixtures corpus.
| Date | Home | Score | Away |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-03-11 | Sunderland W | 1-1 | Nottingham Forest W |
| 2025-12-07 | Nottingham Forest W | 3-1 | Sunderland W |
| Team | Pos | Pld | Pts | GD | Form | Form rank | Form vs pos |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sunderland W | 2 | 3 | 7 | 4 | WWD | 2 | 0 |
| Nottingham Forest W | 6 | 3 | 5 | 1 | DDW | 5 | +1 |
Form rank = league-wide rank by points from the last 5 league games; "Form vs pos" > 0 means over-performing the table.
Figures computed from the GioScore results database · data cutoff: kickoff 2027-03-21
Sunderland W go into the game 2nd in the table on 7 points; Nottingham Forest W sit 6th on 5 — a 2-point gap. Per game in the league, Sunderland W score 2 and conceding 0.67, Nottingham Forest W 1.67 and 1.33, against a competition average of 1.39 goals per team per game. Three points here take Sunderland W to 10 and up to 1st, assuming other results stand.
Eppleton Colliery Football Ground in Hetton-le-Hole stages the fixture, a ground that holds 2,500.
