Wolves v Nottingham Forest: Key stats and talking points

Wolves will continue their search for a first league win of the season when they host Nottingham Forest in a fixture they lost 3-0 last season.

Wolves fell to a sixth straight Premier League defeat away at Aston Villa on Sunday and are now winless in 17 top-flight matches, while Forest's run of five games unbeaten in all competitions came to an end with a 2-0 home defeat by Brighton.

Bad omens

The unwanted records keep piling up for Wolves, and a tally of two points from their 13 games means they have the second-fewest number of points at this stage of the season in Premier League history.

To further contextualise their struggles, the 2007-08 Derby County side who finished on a record-low 11 points had six at this stage of the season - four more than Wolves.

New boss Rob Edwards felt his side's encouraging performance against Villa on Sunday "was a step in the right direction". Nonetheless, they are nine points from safety and eight adrift of 19th-placed Burnley at the start of the midweek round of fixtures - it is the biggest gap at the bottom in the top flight since three points for a win was introduced in 1981.

Hutchinson's time?

Forest boast a wealth of options in wide areas after compensating for the exit of Anthony Elanga to Newcastle by signing Dan Ndoye from Bologna, Dilane Bakwa from Strasbourg and Omari Hutchinson from Ipswich, the latter for a club-record fee.

Hutchinson was omitted from Forest's Europa League squad and he is yet to make a Premier League start for the club.

However, that is surely likely to change soon after a string of positive performances from the bench. Hutchinson caught the eye in Forest's first league win under Sean Dyche when they beat Leeds 3-1 at the City Ground in November, assisting Morgan Gibbs-White for the second goal and winning the penalty from which Elliot Anderson converted the third.

Despite that performance, Dyche opted to stick with the industrious Nicolas Dominguez on the left-hand side at Anfield against Liverpool. That decision is difficult to question, given his side's 3-0 dismantling of the champions, but Hutchinson again staked his claim for more minutes with a positive showing - topped off with his involvement in the third goal when Alisson parried his effort to Gibbs-White who scored.

Perhaps Sunday's 2-0 defeat by Brighton is the watershed moment in Hutchinson starting games for Forest, with the side much improved when both he and Callum Hudson-Odoi were introduced for Ndoye and Dominguez at half-time.

In the wake of that performance, Dyche said of selection: "It's close calls now. We want that, a group that's producing, there's a really good competitive element in the squad. Everyone is competing for a shirt."