🏏 Sun, 24 May 2026 16:00 BST
Nottingham Forest
vs
AFC Bournemouth
4-4-2 vs 4-2-3-1
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- 16th-placed Nottingham Forest (43 points) face 6th-placed Bournemouth (55 points, one game left) on the final day. Forest's survival is confirmed, and they are 5 points clear of 17th-placed Tottenham (38 points, one game left). Bournemouth, with a win, would finish on 58 points, closing in on 5th-placed Liverpool (59 points).
- In this season's Matchday 9 meeting at the Vitality Stadium, Bournemouth won 2-0. Forest had been in good form with 3 wins, 1 draw and 1 loss in their last five but lost 2-3 to Manchester United last time out. Bournemouth are in superb form with 4 wins and 1 draw in their last five, notably stringing together wins without conceding in their last three games.
- One half of Forest's front two, Chris Wood (34), is New Zealand's captain. The veteran striker, whose "weapons are heading and hold-up play using his 191cm frame, with high finishing inside the box," has a record of more than 50 goals each for Burnley and Leeds and remains the team's top scorer this season.
- Bournemouth's centre-forward Evanilson (26) is a Brazil international who joined from FC Porto for a club-record fee of about 40.2 million pounds. With a record of "60 goals in 154 games for Porto, winning the league title and multiple cup trophies," his finishing -- striking accurate shots with either foot -- is his weapon.
- Forest's Morgan Gibbs-White (24), who builds the game in midfield, is the captain of England's U-21s. A Wolverhampton academy product, he drives the team's attack with creativity and decisiveness at the City Ground. He dominates midfield together with Ivory Coast international Ibrahim Sangare (27).
- Bournemouth's Tyler Adams (25), who controls the game from the base of midfield, is the captain of the USA. He puts in performances of "outstanding stability as a defensive midfielder, drawing on his experience at RB Leipzig." Forming a young double pivot with Alex Scott (18), he maintains defensive solidity while handling build-up into attack.