English Premier League.. The date of the Liverpool match with the “surprise of the season” UAE time

Nottingham Forest, the surprise surprise of the season, hopes to kill two birds with one stone when it hosts leaders Liverpool (Tuesday at 12:00 pm UAE time) by beating them and reducing the gap with them to only 3 points in the 21st round of the English Football Championship.
Until now, Nottingham Forest is the only team to inflict a miserable loss on Liverpool in the local league when they beat them 1-0 at their home stadium, Anfield, last September.
If third in the standings is able to win against Liverpool, which has a postponed match against its neighbor Everton, the date of which has not yet been set, it will be able to achieve a back-and-forth victory over them for the first time since the 1962-1963 season.
Forest has achieved six consecutive victories in the league and can equal its absolute record of seven victories in a row if it wins over Liverpool.
Nottingham Forest can take advantage of the imbalance that Liverpool has been experiencing recently after they tied with Manchester United at home 2-2, before losing to Tottenham in the first leg of the League Cup semi-finals 0-1 in the middle of last week, noting that they achieved a victory over Accrington. Stanley from the fourth division, with a clean win on Saturday.
Liverpool is missing Uruguayan striker Darwin Nunes to accumulate cards, but it can rely on a wide range of strikers, headed by Egyptian Mohamed Salah, Colombian Luis Dias, and Portuguese Diogo Jota.
Liverpool’s Dutch coach Arne Sloat acknowledged the difficulty of his team’s task in facing Forest, saying, “I always said that you can judge the table better in the middle of the season, and this moment exists now, so if Forest is with us, with Arsenal, Chelsea, (Manchester) City and all the others.” Therefore, he is at the core of competition with us.”
He continued, “Forrest deserves to be seen in this way if you look at the way he plays, and if you look at his results. So we face a very difficult challenge tomorrow to get a result.”
Forest have not conceded a goal since mid-December.

Hot London derby

The North London derby match between second-placed Arsenal and its neighbor Tottenham at Emirates Stadium is highlighted.
Arsenal is experiencing a semi-crisis after bidding farewell to the cup competition after losing at home to Manchester United, who played with ten players for more than an hour, on penalties, leaving the competition early in the third round.
He also faces the risk of being eliminated from the League Cup after also falling at home to Newcastle 0-2 in the first leg of the semi-final, before the return match scheduled for the fifth of next month.
Arsenal ranks second, 6 points behind Liverpool.
The Gunners are suffering from several injuries to their brilliant winger, Bukayo Saka, who reports revealed that he will not return to the stadiums before next March, and his young replacement, Ethan Nwaneri, was also soon injured and will be absent from the stadiums for several weeks.
Arsenal’s Spanish coach, Mikel Arteta, included Brazilian Gabriel Jesus in the right wing position, but he went out with a knee injury against Manchester United, and Arteta indicated after the match that the injury was not reassuring.
Despite the defensive solidity that Arsenal enjoys, especially with the presence of the Brazilian duo Gabriel and Frenchman William Saliba, it lacks a real spearhead, and this was evident against United, where German Kai Havertz wasted three real chances to score before missing his penalty kick.
Manchester United’s Portuguese coach Ruben Amorim hopes that beating Arsenal in the cup competition, and before that, the positive draw with Liverpool, will constitute a turning point for his team this season when it hosts Southampton, who is in last place in this round.
In general, United will play its next three matches at home in various competitions, as it also hosts Brighton in the league as well and Scottish Rangers in the European League (Europa League).
Chelsea hopes to end a series of 4 matches that it has not won in the league (draws and two defeats) when it hosts Bournemouth, which is achieving remarkable results this season.