Returning to the stadium where their Premier League title dreams crashed and burned last season, Arsenal lock horns with Nottingham Forest at the City Ground on Tuesday evening.
The Gunners returned to winning and scoring ways with a 5-0 battering of Crystal Palace last weekend, while Nuno Espirito Santo's side were forced to accept a 0-0 draw with Bristol City in Friday's FA Cup tie.
The boot of Taiwo Awoniyi extinguished Arsenal's dreams of Premier League stardom once and for all last season, while also assuring Nottingham Forest of a place in the big time for the second successive year, but a third-straight season of top-flight football is far from a guarantee.
Since replacing the man who masterminded that season-defining beating of the Gunners, Nuno Espirito Santo has overseen a spate of end-to-end, goal-packed affairs in the Forest dugout, with a staggering 26 strikes flying in during his opening six fixtures at the helm, including five in their last Premier League showdown with Brentford.
However, three days after bettering Blackpool 3-2 in the FA Cup, the Tricky Trees were put to the sword by the same scoreline against the Ivan Toney-inspired Bees, although the striker's comeback strike - a clever free kick low into the goal - was clouded in controversy, as he appeared to move the ball while Santo's wall prepped themselves.
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