Glasner: "The main topic was finishing in training. I said the one who can explain it best how to deal with this situation is Chris Wood. Overall, [he's scored] around 200 goals in English football and he had to deal with these situations. His message was: 'Always be confident, never lose trust in yourself, and there's always another one around the corner.'

"I could see players start to smile and that's how you best to deal with it. No team has seven, eight big chances like we had against Palace [against Arsenal] but it's possible to have two or three. Then, it's up us to be clinical, taking the chances and then you have the chance to win the game."

TEAM NEWS

Piero Hincapie and Martin Zubimendi both missed our midweek win against Lille after injuring ankles in training after the Leeds victory. Mikel Arteta hopes the Spaniard should be back available, while Hincapie is likely out for a few more weeks.

Christos Tzolis (muscle) and William Saliba (back) remain out longer term, while Bukayo Saka, Martin Odegaard, Kai Havertz and Riccardo Calafiori could return after being rested against Lille. 

Glasner is sweating on the fitness of star man Morgan Gibbs-White, who has sat out the majority of training this week after picking up a minor muscular injury at Palace last weekend.

Defender Nikola Milenkovic missed that game with a foot problem but has returned to training, but Igor Jesus is out with a calf issue. Full-back Nicolo Savona has been out since January after knee surgery.

TALKING TACTICS

Adrian Clarke: The table can sometimes be misleading, and I believe that’s the case with Forest, whose performances have warranted more than their five points. In Glasner’s trademark 3-4-2-1 shape they have been very creative, manufacturing the division's second-highest number of big chances. Their big issue has been poor finishing, converting only 4.72% of their attempts into goals.

The three players who make them tick attacking-wise are Gibbs-White, Dan Ndoye and James McAtee. We know all about Gibbs-White’s talent, but Swiss international Ndoye has been extremely positive of late, running at defenders and firing off shots. In central midfield, ex-Manchester City youngster McAtee has shown a lovely eye for a pass, creating 11 chances in open play.

Defensively, Glasner’s men are strong. They were unusually flaky at Crystal Palace, but generally keep opponents at arm’s length, facing the joint-second-fewest shots (64), only one behind us. Centre-back Murillo is their standout defender, but the industry of new holding midfielder Xaver Schlager should not be underestimated either.

Forest are not possession-heavy or especially focused on pressing, but Glasner's teams are usually superbly organised and clear in their strategies. They do attack at speed, and that is something we must be wary of, so this is going to be a stern examination.

MATCH STATS

We have won 10 of our last 15 games against Nottingham Forest in all competitions, keeping clean sheets in nine of them and in each of the last four.

Forest have only won two of their 18 Premier League games against us (11% - D5 L11), only against Newcastle (6% ) and Blackburn (10%) do they have a worse win percentage among teams they’ve faced 10+ times in the competition.

We have won 14 of our last 17 Premier League games, with nine by a one-goal margin. In the last two seasons, we have won 17 games by a single goal, the most of any side in Europe’s big-five leagues.

Oliver Glasner has just five wins in 29 games (D9 L15) since December last year. Since the start of this 29-game run, Glasner’s 17% win rate is the second-lowest among managers with 20+ games, ahead only of Rob Edwards (13%).

We have gone 1-0 down in three of our last four Premier League matches, as many as in our previous 25 games combined. No side has won more points from losing positions this season than us (6).

Forest have converted just 4.7% of their shots and have the worst xG difference in the division this season (5 goals from 10.3 xG, -5.3).

Bukayo Saka has been directly involved in five goals (3 goals, 2 assists) in six league games against Forest, his best minutes-per-goal involvement ratio against any opponent he’s faced more than twice (a goal or assist every 83 minutes).

Only Pascal Gross (18) has created more chances in the Premier League than Morgan Gibbs-White (17), who tops the charts for open-play chances created (15), big chances created (7), and expected assists (1.87).

Bruno Guimaraes has scored three goals in eight Premier League matches against Nottingham Forest; only against Brentford (4) has he netted more goals in the competition.

MATCH OFFICIALS

As he did last season, Michael Oliver will take charge of this particular fixture. We registered a win, a draw and a loss last term under his watch, with his last appointment being our 2-1 home loss against Bournemouth in April, the first time in eight matches he’d managed that we’d been defeated in. 

We have won 32 of the 65 games he has refereed, stretching back 16 years. He has dished out 14 yellow cards and one red - to Phil Foden in the Manchester derby - in the top-flight this term.

Referee: Michael Oliver

Assistants: Stuart Burt, James Mainwaring

Fourth official: Farai Hallam

VAR: Michael Salisbury

Assistant VAR: Ian Hussin

RECENT TRENTSIDE TRIPS

We head to the City Ground unbeaten in the last three visits, and could register three successive clean sheets at the home of the Tricky Trees for the first time.

The last two meetings between the sides at the City Ground have ended goalless, with 40 shots attempted without success, while in January 2024 we won 2-1 with Gabriel Jesus and Bukayo Saka on target, before Taiwo Awoniyi made things nervy with a late consolation. The previous May saw us fall to a 1-0 loss when Awoniyi netted again, effectively ending our title challenge.

LIVE COVERAGE

Live commentary will be available on Arsenal.com and The Arsenal app (download now on iOS/Android) from just before kick-off, with Dan Roebuck and Adrian Clarke behind the mics to guide you through all the on-field action.