📊 Form Guide

Nottingham Forest

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Nottingham Forest will be looking for an improved result here after a 0-2 FA Cup defeat last time out to Manchester City.

In that match, Nottingham Forest managed 33% possession and 8 shots at goal with 1 of them on target. Manchester City had 14 attempts on goal with 6 on target. Rico Lewis (2') and Joško Gvardiol (51') scored for Manchester City.

Nottingham Forest have struggled with their forward play in more recent games. Their ‘goals for’ figure equals just 4 versus opponents during the course of their last 6 fixtures. In those meetings, Nottingham Forest have also seen the number of goals against them come to 6. With no two games being the same, we will just have to wait and see if the trend shall be maintained in this game or not.

Brentford

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Brentford come into this match following on from a 4-2 Premier League win to defeat Brighton & Hove Albion in their previous fixture.

In that game, Brentford had 46% possession and 16 attempts at goal with 8 on target. For Brentford, the goalscorers were Bryan Mbeumo (9', 48'), Yoane Wissa (58') and Christian Nørgaard (95'). Brighton & Hove Albion had 12 attempts at goal with 3 on target. Danny Welbeck (45') and Kaoru Mitoma (81') scored for Brighton & Hove Albion.

The numbers tell their own story, and Brentford have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, letting opponents get 7 goals overall. In defence, Brentford seem to have a bit of a soft underbelly.

Looking at their past form shows that Brentford:

• haven't won against Nottingham Forest in away games against them for the last 2 matches in the league.
• have not lost to Nottingham Forest in away games against them for the last 3 league games.
• haven’t won away from home in the past 2 matches in the league.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their prior head-to-head clashes dating back to 20/03/2021 tells us that Nottingham Forest have won 1 of these games & Brentford 2, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 3.

An aggregate of 18 goals were scored between the two sides throughout the course of those matches, with 9 of them for The Reds and 9 coming from The Bees. The average number of goals per game works out to 3.

The last league clash featuring the two was Premier League match day 17 on 21/12/2024 when the final score was Brentford 0-2 Nottingham Forest.

On that occasion, Brentford had 64% possession and 7 attempts on goal with 3 on target.

At the other end, Nottingham Forest had 10 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Ola Aina (38') and Anthony Elanga (51') scored.

The referee was Michael Oliver.

🗞️ Team News: Nottingham Forest

In our view, The Reds could make use of the 4-2-3-1 system for this game featuring Matz Sels, Ola Aina, Nikola Milenkovic, Murillo, Neco Williams, Ryan Yates, Elliot Anderson, Anthony Elanga, Morgan Gibbs-White, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Chris Wood.

ℹ️ Team News: Brentford

Brentford manager Thomas Frank has not got a full squad to pick from. Vitaly Janelt (Heel injury), Aaron Hickey (Fitness), Igor Thiago (Knee injury), Josh Dasilva (Knee surgery) and Fábio Carvalho (Shoulder injury) won’t be making appearances.

From our viewpoint, The Bees appear most likely to elect for a 4-2-3-1 formation, going with Mark Flekken, Michael Kayode, Nathan Collins, Sepp van den Berg, Keane Lewis-Potter, Christian Noergaard, Yegor Yarmolyuk, Bryan Mbeumo, Mikkel Damsgaard, Kevin Schade and Yoane Wissa.

💡 Prediction

Here is a game where Brentford will need to apply a lot of pressure to score against this Nottingham Forest lineup who we think might well get the vital goal that wins it.

We therefore fancy a highly competitive game with a 1-0 win for Nottingham Forest when all is said and done.

Let’s see how it plays out.

Renata Leite, 18:09 01/05/2025