📏 Form Guide

Nottingham Forest

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Nottingham Forest will be hoping to bounce back here after the 2-1 Premier League loss in their previous game against Aston Villa.

In that match, Nottingham Forest managed 47% possession and 19 shots on goal with 3 on target. The only player to score for Nottingham Forest was Jota Silva (57'). At the other end, Aston Villa had 17 attempts at goal with 8 of them on target. Morgan Rogers (13') and Donyell Malen (15') scored for Aston Villa.

Over their preceding six games, Nuno Espírito Santo's Nottingham Forest have netted a total of 8 times, with that being an average number of goals per match of 1.33.

Going into this one, Nottingham Forest are undefeated in their last 9 league matches at home. It's been impressive.

Everton

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In their previous game, Everton drew 1-1 in the Premier League tie with Arsenal.

In that match, Everton had 29% possession and 5 attempts on goal with 2 on target. The scorer for Everton was Iliman Ndiaye (49'). On the other side, Arsenal got 14 shots at goal with 5 on target. Leandro Trossard (34') scored for Arsenal.

The numbers tell their own story, and Everton have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 games, seeing their opponents hit 7 goals in total. At the back, Everton could really do with shoring things up. That pattern might not be carried forward into this game, of course.

Looking at the pre-match facts, Everton:

• haven't been defeated by Nottingham Forest when they have played them away from home in the previous 4 league matches. An impressive run.
• have not won away from home in their last 3 matches in the league.

↔️ Head to head

If we look at their past head to head meetings stretching back to 30/01/1999, both clubs have shared the honours with Nottingham Forest winning 2 of those games, Everton 2 and 2 being draws in normal time.

A combined total of 12 goals were scored between them in this period, with 6 for The Reds and 6 netted by The Toffees. The average number of goals per game works out to 2.

The last league contest between these sides was Premier League match day 19 on 29/12/2024 when the final score was Everton 0-2 Nottingham Forest.

On that occasion, Everton managed 63% possession and 13 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

For their opponents, Nottingham Forest had 11 shots on goal with 7 of them on target. Chris Wood (15') and Morgan Gibbs-White (61') scored.

The referee was Tony Harrington.

📋 Team News: Nottingham Forest

Availability isn’t a big problem, with just one fitness concern for the Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espírito Santo to be concerned about thanks to an otherwise robust group. Ola Aina (Calf injury) will miss out.

It’s our opinion that The Reds look set to opt for a 4-2-3-1 system for the game, beginning the first half with Matz Sels, Neco Williams, Nikola Milenkovic, Murillo, Alex Moreno, Nicolas Dominguez, Elliot Anderson, Jota Silva, Morgan Gibbs-White, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Chris Wood.

📋 Team News: Everton

Everton boss David Moyes has to choose a team with limited availability. Jesper Lindstrøm (Groin injury), Dominic Calvert-Lewin (Hamstring injury) and Orel Mangala (Knee injury) miss out here.

We believe The Toffees seem likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 system using Jordan Pickford, Jake O'Brien, James Tarkowski, Jarrad Branthwaite, Vitaliy Mykolenko, James Garner, Idrissa Gana Gueye, Jack Harrison, Abdoulaye Doucoure, Iliman Ndiaye and Armando Broja.

🧠 Prediction

Looking at these two teams, we feel that Everton will have to perform well to find the net against this Nottingham Forest outfit who we think will score at least once to gain the upper hand.

That’s why our selection here is for a good battle with a 1-0 win for Nottingham Forest when the full-time whistle blows.

Hopefully it’s a good one.

Andre Moura, 13:02 12/04/2025