Nottingham Forest vs Derby County Prediction & Betting Tips

📏 Form Guide

Nottingham Forest

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Nottingham Forest go into this game following a 1-1 Championship tied result versus Rotherham United.

In that game, Nottingham Forest managed 52% possession and 20 shots on goal with 4 of them on target. The scorer for Nottingham Forest was Sammy Ameobi (80'). At the other end, Rotherham United had 7 attempts at goal with 2 on target. Daniel Barlaser (51') was the scorer for Rotherham United.

It’s not been often in recent games that Nottingham Forest have kept a clean sheet. In fact, The Reds have seen their defence breached in 5 of their previous 6 games, giving up 8 goals along the way. Such a trend isn’t assured to follow through into this game, however.

Their previous form shows that Nottingham Forest:

• have not been beaten in the league by Derby County in their last 5 matches.
• are without a home win in the past 6 matches in the league. Their fans aren't happy.

Derby County

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After tasting defeat last time out to Huddersfield Town in Championship competition, Derby County and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that game, Derby County managed 46% possession and 12 shots at goal with 2 of them on target. Huddersfield Town got 18 shots at goal with 3 on target. Juninho Bacuna (53') scored for Huddersfield Town.

The stats tell the story, and Derby County have been scored against in 5 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 10 goals in total. In defence, The Rams can certainly do much better.

Coming into this clash, Derby County have not beaten Nottingham Forest in away games against them for the last 7 league games. They'll be keen to stop this run.

👥 Head to head

A look at their past head to head meetings going back to 11/03/2018 shows us that Nottingham Forest have won 3 of these games & Derby County 0, with the number of drawn results standing at 3.

An aggregate of 7 goals were yielded between them during those clashes, with 6 of them for The Reds and 1 belonging to The Rams. That’s an average goals per game of 1.17.

📋 Team News: Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest boss Chris Hughton will be grateful not to have any fitness concerns to speak of ahead of this clash with a completely injury-free group ready to go.

📰 Team News: Derby County

Due to a completely injury-free group available for selection, Derby County manager Phillip Cocu doesn’t have any fitness concerns whatsoever ahead of this match.

💡 Prediction

In our view, Derby County should have enough to score a goal against this Nottingham Forest lineup, but that probably won’t quite be as many as they’ll concede.

We’re tipping a narrow 2-1 winning score for Nottingham Forest when all is said and done. We are expecting it to be pretty even.

Lucas Pereira, 23:04 18/10/2020