Nottingham Forest vs Wolverhampton Wanderers LIVE: Premier League latest score, goals and updates from fixture

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LIVE – Updated at 15:49

The 2023/24 Premier League season is under way and you can follow every game and every goal right here with The Independent.

This year sees Manchester City try to defend their crown and claim a historic fourth title in succession. Pep Guardiola’s all-conquering City, who also won the Champions League and FA Cup last season, will have to see off Arsenal, Chelsea, Manchester United, Liverpool and the rest to claim an unprecedented sixth league title in seven years.

Meanwhile Luton Town are making their first appearance in the Premier League, having risen from non-league in an incredible decade of progress. They followed Championship winners Burnley and second-placed Sheffield United in earning promotion to the top flight.

Follow the latest action from the Premier League below.

Nottingham Forest FC 1 – 1 Wolverhampton Wanderers FC

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Assist Giovanni Alejandro Reyna

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We’ll play four additional minutes at the end of a frantic first half at the City Ground.

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Goal Morgan Anthony Gibbs-White

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Cunha draws level with Hwang at the top of Wolves’ scoring charts this season, returning from injury to notch his 10th league goal of the campaign!

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Forest look to hit straight back as Aina beats Semedo to cross from the left. It’s taken down by Williams on the opposite side, whose ball back into the box deflects behind off Doherty for a Forest corner!

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Goal Matheus Santos Carneiro da Cunha

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Reyna’s ball into the box from a free-kick is cleared as far as Murillo, who has Hudson-Odoi in support to his left. He crosses towards Yates, but Sa’s there to make the catch at his near post.

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WIDE!!! Reyna turns in the middle and sends Williams surging into the box with a chance to shoot. He lets fly under pressure from Doherty, but can’t find the target as his shot is blasted behind for a goal-kick!

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Doyle fizzes the ball across the face of goal from deep, but neither Cunha nor Doherty can produce a shot or keep it in play at the far post.

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Wolves are unbeaten in their last five away league games against Forest, since losing 3-1 in the Championship back in March 2013.

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Gibbs-White brings down a Forest throw-in on the turn and looks to link up with Reyna and Yates, but the latter is dispossessed and Joao Gomes comes away on the counter for Wolves.

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Yellow Card Mario René Junior Lemina

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OFF THE LINE!!!! Forest are let off the hook after a huge error!!! Yates’ errant pass goes straight to Joao Gomes and the midfielder curls a shot goalwards. Murillo races back to head it off the line with a superhuman effort, and Sarabia arriving on the follow-up can only send the rebound wide of the far post!!

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Sarabis’ scooped pass sends Semedo galloping into open pasture down the right, but his cross from the edge of the box is plucked out of the sky by Sels!

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Cunha is played into space down the right and fires an early shot goalwards from just inside the box, but it flashes over the top and doesn’t trouble Sels at all!

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WIDE!!!! Reyna latches onto a loose Semedo pass at the back and bears down on goal, sending a 20-yard strike along the ground and just to the wrong side of Sa’s right-hand post!

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Following their 3-1 win against Fulham last time out at the City Ground, Forest are looking to win consecutive home league games for the first time since a run of four between April and August last year.

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Gibbs-White looks to play Wood through on goal with a cross-field pass into the box, but Sa’s well off his line to gather before the New Zealander can get ahead of steam.

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Sarabia tries to play Doherty in behind the defence, but Omobamidele gets across at speed to beat his international team-mate to the ball and knock it away as Williams prevents the corner.

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Wolves have kept just two clean sheets in their last 32 Premier League away games, with both of those coming this season in a 1-0 win at Everton and most recently a 0-0 draw at Brighton in January.

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BLOCKED!!! Another scramble in the Wolves box!! Reyna somehow manages to squeeze the ball through the crowd with Danilo in support, but his effort from right in front is sent looping up into the air and down into Sa’s grasp thanks to a timely block from Toti Gomes!!

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OVER!!! Another Forest corner causes a scramble in the Wolves box, with Sa’s punch not enough to clear the danger. It comes to Hudson-Odoi, who rides several challenges before sending a close-range shot over the bar!!

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Gibbs-White and Hudson-Odoi look to play a one-two down the left-hand side, but Forest’s number 10 can’t get on the end of the return ball as Lemina slides in to scythe it away!

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SAVED!!!! Hudson-Odoi latches onto Murillo’s cross-field pass and cuts inside looking to shoot. He’s soon crowded out by a pack of Wolves players, but can find Yates, whose low 25-yard strike takes a nick before being saved and held by Sa!

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No side has lost more Premier League games this calendar year than Forest (seven), with only Burnley (eight) and Sheffield United (seven) earning points than the Reds’ nine so far in 2024.

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Doyle is given room to shoot and has Wolves’ first sight of goal from the edge of the box, but it’s always rising and clears Sels’ crossbar by some distance.

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Space opens up again for Yates on the edge of the box, but Kilman’s in the way of his snap-shot and Wolves will recover possession in their own defensive third.

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Danilo’s delivery from the Forest corner is whipped right into the centre and clawed out of the goalmouth by Sa, before Sarabia brings it away on the counter for Wolves!

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BLOCKED!!! Some quick link-up play from Forest gives Williams space to cross from the right. His pull-back is met first time by the arriving Yates, whose shot is blocked behind by Doyle!!

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BLOCKED!! Williams’ cross into the centre is chested down by Wood, whose attempted shot is blocked by Bueno and scrambled away from the goalmouth by Toti Gomes!

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Forest have won just one of their last 10 league games against Wolves, losing five times, and are winless in all three such Premier League fixtures.

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Yates kicks the game off for Forest, and this battle of the east and west Midlands is up and running!

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The teams are lined up in the City Ground tunnel ahead of kick-off, and head out onto the pitch amidst a raucous atmosphere of red and white scarves!

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Wolves’ attacking stocks have been bolstered by the returns from injury of Hwang Hee-Chan and Matheus Cunha, with the latter leading the line and Hwang on the bench. Cunha replaces Rayan Ait-Nouri in the squad and starting XI, and spearheads a front three also including Tommy Doyle and Pablo Sarabia.

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Forest make a solitary change from their past two matches after Anthony Elanga picked up an injury. That means Callum Hudson-Odoi switches to the right-hand side of their midfield. and Giovanni Reyna comes in on the left, both of whom will be looking to provide in-form Chris Wood with plenty of attacking ammunition.

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WOLVES (3-4-2-1): Jose Sa; Santiago Bueno, Maximilian Kilman, Toti Gomes; Nelson Semedo, Mario Lemina, Joao Gomes, Matt Doherty; Pablo Sarabia, Tommy Doyle; Matheus Cunha.

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NOTTNGHAM FOREST SUBS: Matt turner, Nuno Tavares, Ibrahim Sangare, Harry Toffolo, Nicolas Dominguez, Moussa Niakhate, Divock Origi, Gonzalo Montiel, Rodrigo Ribiero.

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NOTTINGHAM FOREST (4-2-3-1): Matz Sels; Neco Williams, Andrew Omobamidele, Murillo, Ola Aina; Ryan Yates, Danilo; Callum Hudson-Odoir, Morgan Gibbs-White, Giovanni Reyna; Chris Wood.

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Wolves lie 11th, comfortably clear of the relegation battle and knowing a win at the City Ground could take them into the top half of the table. The Wanderers’ form in 2024 has been inconsistent though, and they’re without a win in three, losing late on in highly controversial circumstances to West Ham last time out.

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Forest couldn’t build on their strong showing in a 3-1 victory over Fulham and lost by the same scoreline to Tottenham last time out. With a four-point deduction for financial fair play breaches taking the Reds down to within just four goals difference of the relegation zone, Nuno Espirito Santo’s side need to return to the winners’ circle as soon as possible to avoid being dragged over to the wrong side of the dotted line.

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Hello, and welcome to live coverage of this Premier League fixture from the City Ground, as Nottingham Forest host Wolverhampton Wanderers on the banks of the river Trent.

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Follow all the goals and latest action from the Premier League here with The Independent. Team news and line-ups coming up shortly…

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Lineups are announced and players are warming up.