One area of Brentford’s game I've been keeping an eye on this season is how aggressive they’re being without the ball. This caught my eye because only Manchester City committed fewer fouls in the Premier League than Brentford last season with the Bees averaging just 8.70 fouls committed per game.

However, across the opening six games of the season they’ve averaged 13.0 fouls committed per game - a massive increase which has them ranked third in the Premier League when it comes to fouls.

This is a smaller sample size and may well level out as we get further into the season, but it shows no signs of slowing down at the moment with City having a range of players that can help to increase the foul count here.

Brentford committed 14 fouls in their 3-1 win over Manchester United last time out and have committed 11 fouls in all six of their Premier League matches this season, with five of these matches seeing more than 11 fouls committed by Keith Andrews side.

Wolves have picked up 12 yellow cards across their six Premier League games this season (2.0 per game). They averaged 1.97 cards per game across their 38 Premier League matches last season with Wolves collecting three cards in their 2-2 draw against Brighton last season.

Brighton have drawn 2+ cards from their opponents in each of their six Premier League matches this season. Their opponents have picked up at least three cards in four of these games so there is a chance that Wolves could end up with an even higher card total here given Brighton’s proficiency when it comes to drawing them from the opposition.

Brighton’s opponents have also entered double digits for fouls in four of these games. Wolves’ foul average currently sits at 13.8 this season which would suggest that the home side will rack up the foul count here and test the patience of Jarred Gillet who is the referee for this game.

Both head to head meetings between these sides last season produced over 2.5 goals. Newcastle ran out 4-3 winners at St James’ Park and also claimed a 3-1 win over Forest at the City Ground in the Premier League last season. Newcastle have seen over 2.5 goals in four of their last five matches across all competitions.

Forest’s approach is a lot more front footed now than it was in the early parts of the season and their games have been seeing a higher level of goals as a result. Forest have seen over 2.5 goals in four of their six matches under Postecoglu with the exceptions coming against Burnley and Sunderland - both sides that set up in a low block against Forest.

I can genuinely see Newcastle covering this line on their own, especially if Ange continues to persist with this naive high line which he doesn’t have the players for. Forest’s centre backs have been struggling to adapt to this new demand from the manager which isn’t really a surprise, Forest’s defensive success was never built on the speed of their centre backs and asking them to push right up the pitch is causing a lot of defensive issues for Forest.

Palace scored in both of their head to head meetings against Everton last season but still ended up on the wrong side of the result with the Toffees registering 2-1 wins in both games. Not many sides were able to do the double over Oliver Glasner’s side last season who enter this game on their longest ever unbeaten run in the Premier League.

Palace have scored in four of their last five matches across all competitions with the exception coming against Sunderland a few weeks ago. That was always likely to be a low scoring game with the way Sunderland set up but this has potential to be a more exciting encounter. Everton are taking more risks than they did last season as they now have more options in the final third, this led to West Ham getting multiple opportunities on the counter attack in their most recent game and I think Palace can do the same.

Palace’s attack looked a bit lacklustre a few weeks ago with the departure of Eberechi Eze but Glasner now has more options to call upon with Sarr coming back from injury and Mateta being a constant threat. Yeremy Pino has been bright in his early cameos for Palace as well, he assisted both of Palace’s goals in their 2-0 win over Dynamo Kyiv in the Conference League during the week.