Nottingham Forest lineup vs. Arsenal: Predicted XI for Premier League clash

Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espirito Santo will have to assess a couple of his international contingent before Saturday's Premier League game against Arsenal at the Emirates.

The Tricky Trees' only two injury absentees are Danilo (ankle) and Ibrahim Sangare (hamstring), but Brazil's Murillo and Nottingham Forest's Chris Wood both travelled halfway around the world for their international commitments.

Both players have been integral to Forest's exceptional start to the season, though, with Wood netting over half of the visitors' Premier League goals in the current campaign, netting eight of their 15 efforts.

The New Zealand international will therefore surely be given the nod up front over Taiwo Awoniyi if fit enough, no doubt supported by an unchanged trident of Anthony Elanga, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Morgan Gibbs-White.

Ryan Yates and Nicolas Dominguez ought to link arms in the engine room further back, and as Murillo did not earn any minutes for Brazil this month, he will surely be fine to man the rearguard too.

The 22-year-old joins Ola Aina, Matz Sels, Nikola Milenkovic and Alex Moreno in a menacing backline, which has conceded two fewer goals than hosts Arsenal in the current top-flight campaign.

Nottingham Forest possible starting lineup: Sels; Aina, Milenkovic, Murillo, Moreno; Dominguez, Yates; Elanga, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi; Wood

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