Match talking points will appear here before kick-off.

• 1
  Forest have just appointed their fifth manager in twelve months: Oliver Glasner, who arrives fresh from guiding Crystal Palace through the best spell in that club's history — an FA Cup, a Community Shield and a Europa Conference League title in two and a half seasons.
• 2
  He's inheriting a club that's burned through Nuno Espírito Santo, Ange Postecoglou, Sean Dyche and Vitor Pereira in barely a year, so his first job is basically just convincing everyone he'll still be there at Christmas.
• 3
  Forest sold Anthony Elanga to Newcastle for £55m over the summer — a reminder that even Forest's good news stories, like developing a genuine Premier League winger, tend to end with someone else cashing in on the result.
• 4
  Their opening weeks have been settling-in territory rather than statement-making: a 0-0 at home to Tottenham where Forest actually had a goal ruled out for handball on the line by VAR in the 67th minute.
• 5
  With that much managerial change at the City Ground, 'stability' is now doing a lot of work in every article written about Forest — Glasner's entire pitch is that he's the one who can actually make it stick this time.

• 1
  Roberto De Zerbi is Tottenham's third head coach in barely a year, brought in last season specifically to stop them going down — which he did, on the final day, beating Everton 2-0 with the club needing exactly that result to survive.
• 2
  This season is his first full campaign in charge, and he's led a genuinely major summer spending spree alongside sporting director Johan Lange and the club's hierarchy — the kind of outlay that raises the stakes on every poor result rather than lowering the pressure.
• 3
  The start hasn't matched the ambition: back-to-back defeats to open the season, including a chastening 0-2 loss at home to Newcastle where two of Newcastle's own summer signings did the damage, before Forest held them to a goalless draw that De Zerbi's side were relieved to take as their first point.
• 4
  De Zerbi has already had to publicly defend the summer spending — not the conversation a club wants to be having in September after paying for a rescue job and a rebuild in the same calendar year.
• 5
  Spurs avoided relegation by a matter of days last spring, which means every slow start this season reads differently to their fans than it would at a club with more cushion — there's real history behind the anxiety, not just habit.