Crystal Palace vs Nottingham Forest Live Stream, Predictions (May 05)

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Crystal Palace

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Crystal Palace fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 3-0 FA Cup success over Aston Villa.

Fixtures featuring Crystal Palace have tended to be lively ones of late with plenty of scoring the rule rather than the exception. Over their past half dozen clashes, the sum total of 22 goals have flown in for both teams combined (at an average of 3.67 goals per game) with 9 of those coming from Crystal Palace.

Analysis of their past results shows that Crystal Palace:

• have not beaten Nottingham Forest in their last 8 league games.
• are undefeated in their previous 4 league matches at home.

Nottingham Forest

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After tasting defeat last time out to Brentford in Premier League action, Nottingham Forest and their travelling fans will hope for a better result here.

In that match, Nottingham Forest had 55% possession and 15 shots at goal with 6 of them on target. Brentford had 11 shots on goal with 3 of them on target. Kevin Schade (44') and Yoane Wissa (70') scored for Brentford.

The strike force from Nottingham Forest have suffered from a shortage of goals in their past 6 encounters, recording the unsatisfactory return of just 4. In those fixtures, The Reds have also seen the collective goal aggregate against them equal 6. That trend might not be carried forward here, however.

Pre-game facts show that Nottingham Forest:

• have not won against Crystal Palace when they've played them away from home in the last 3 league matches.
• remain unbeaten by Crystal Palace when having played them away from home in the previous 7 league games. Travelling fans have really enjoyed these clashes.

👥 Head to head

An examination of their past head to head clashes dating back to 29/12/2012 tells us that Crystal Palace have won 0 of them & Nottingham Forest 2, with the number of drawn games being 4.

A total of 10 goals were yielded between them throughout the course of those matches, with 4 of them for The Eagles and 6 belonging to The Reds. That’s an average goals per game of 1.67.

The previous league clash featuring these sides was Premier League match day 8 on 21/10/2024 when the final score was Nottingham Forest 1-0 Crystal Palace.

That time, Nottingham Forest managed 51% possession and 20 attempts at goal with 6 on target. Their only player on the scoresheet was Chris Wood (65').

Crystal Palace had 20 shots at goal with 7 of them on target.

The referee was Tim Robinson.

ℹ️ Team News: Crystal Palace

Cheick Doucouré (Knee surgery) and Chadi Riad (Cruciate ligament tear) won’t be able to feature for Crystal Palace gaffer Oliver Glasner.

In our view, The Eagles could make use of the 3-4-2-1 system for this game featuring Dean Henderson, Chris Richards, Maxence Lacroix, Marc Guehi, Daniel Muñoz, Jefferson Lerma, Adam Wharton, Tyrick Mitchell, Ismaïla Sarr, Eberechi Eze and Jean-Philippe Mateta.

📋 Team News: Nottingham Forest

We reckon that The Reds might make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation by sending out Matz Sels, Ola Aina, Nikola Milenkovic, Murillo, Neco Williams, Ryan Yates, Nicolas Dominguez, Anthony Elanga, Morgan Gibbs-White, Jota Silva and Chris Wood.

💭 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Nottingham Forest might have a difficult job to find the net against this Crystal Palace lineup who should manage to get a goal of their own in a winning performance.

We therefore think that it’s going to be a very even match with a 1-0 victory for Crystal Palace when the referee blows for full-time.

Let’s see how it plays out.

📖 ⚽️ What are the top odds for this match?

Turning to the betting odds on the win-draw-win market, a win for Crystal Palace is available for 2.2, a wager on a draw is 3.5 and selecting a win for Nottingham Forest is 3.2. These are the best of the prices being offered right now.

Renata Leite, 14:03 03/05/2025