Nottingham Forest v Leeds live stream, match preview, team news and kick-off time for this Premier League match

Nottingham Forest v Leeds live stream
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Nottingham Forest v Leeds live stream and match preview, Sunday 5 February, 2.00pm GMT

Nottingham Forest v Leeds live stream and match preview

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A precious three points is on offer when basement battlers Nottingham Forest and Leeds face off at the City Ground on Sunday.

Forest might look safe at first glance, sitting up in 13th, but only four points separates them from the drop zone and Leeds can leapfrog the Midlands club on goal difference with a win here.

Steve Cooper’s side suffered a 5-0 aggregate loss to Manchester United in the League Cup semi-finals in midweek, but they are unbeaten in four games in the Premier League.

Leeds knocked out Accrington Stanley last weekend to progress in the FA Cup, but they are winless in their last six league games, picking up three draws in that time.

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Team news

Steve Cooper has named the following Nottingham Forest starting 11, handing a debut to January arrival Keylor Navas in goal: (4-3-1-2) Navas; Williams, Boly, McKenna, Lodi; Mangala, Danilo, Freuler; Gibbs-White; Johnson, Wood

Jesses Marsch has named the following Leeds starting 11: (4-2-3-1) Meslier; Ayling, Cooper, Wober, Struijk; Adams, Roca; Sinisterra, Harrison, Gnonto; Bamford

Form

Nottingham Forest: LLDWD

Leeds United: WDWLD

Referee

Robert Jones will be the referee for Nottingham Forest v Leeds.

Stadium

Nottingham Forest v Leeds will be played at the City Ground. 

Kick-off and channel

Nottingham Forest v Leeds kick-off is on Sunday 5 February at 2pm GMT. The game is on Sky Sports Main Event and Sky Sports Premier League in the United Kingdom. 

In the US, kick-off time is 09.00am ET / 06.00am PT. The match will be shown on NBC in the US. See below for international broadcast options.

VPN guide

Use a VPN to watch Premier League football from outside your country

If you’re out of the country for a Premier League fixture, then you won't be able to watch on your domestic streaming service as usual. The broadcaster knows where you are because of your IP address (boo!) and blocks you from watching it. You can use a VPN to get around that, though, without resorting to illegal feeds you’ve found on Reddit.

A Virtual Private Network (VPN), assuming it complies with your broadcaster’s T&Cs, creates a private connection between your device and t'internet, meaning the service can’t work out where you are and will let you watch. And all the info going between is entirely encrypted, anonymous and safe – and that's a result.

There are plenty of good-value options out there. For the Premier League, FourFourTwo currently recommends:

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International Premier League TV rights

• UK: Sky Sports and BT Sport are the two main players once again, but Amazon also have a slice of the pie in 2022/23. 
• USA: NBC Sports Group are the Premier League rights holders, with the Peacock Premium streaming platform showing even more than the 175 games it aired last season. If you pick up a fuboTV subscription for the games not on Peacock Premium, you'll be able to watch every game.
• Canada: The way to watch Premier League football in 2022/23 is fuboTV, which has exclusive rights to all the action.
• Australia: Optus Sport will screen every game of the Premier League season. Non-subscribers can access the action via a Fetch TV box and other friendly streaming devices.
• New Zealand: Sky Sport are serving up all 380 games – plus various highlights and magazine shows throughout the week, as well as the Champions League.

Alasdair Mackenzie is a freelance journalist based in Rome, and a FourFourTwo contributor since 2015. When not pulling on the FFT shirt, he can be found at Reuters, The Times and the i. An Italophile since growing up on a diet of Football Italia on Channel 4, he now counts himself among thousands of fans sharing a passion for Ross County and Lazio. 

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