📏 Form Guide

Nottingham Forest

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Nottingham Forest will be hoping to bounce back here following the 3-0 Premier League loss in their previous game against Arsenal.

In that game, Nottingham Forest managed 33% possession and 7 shots on goal with 0 on target. On the other side, Arsenal got 19 attempts on goal with 7 of them on target. Bukayo Saka (15'), Thomas Partey (52') and Ethan Nwaneri (86') scored for Arsenal.

Over their past 6 games, Nuno Espírito Santo's Nottingham Forest have hit the back of the net 9 times giving them an average number of goals per match of 1.5.

Coming into this fixture, Nottingham Forest haven't been beaten in the league by Ipswich Town in their previous 3 games.

Ipswich Town

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In their last game, Ipswich Town drew 1-1 in the Premier League match with Manchester United.

In that game, Ipswich Town had 40% possession and 11 shots on goal with 6 of them on target. The scorer for Ipswich Town was Omari Hutchinson (43'). Manchester United got 11 shots on goal with 4 on target. Marcus Rashford (2') scored for Manchester United.

Demonstrating their penchant for productive encounters, the back of the net has been hit 21 times in the previous six matches in which Ipswich Town have sent out their troops, giving an average of 3.5 goals per fixture. Opposing teams have hit 13 of those goals. Historical results aside, we will just have to wait and see whether that trend will be sustained here in this game.

Coming into this fixture, Ipswich Town have not beaten Nottingham Forest in away games against them for the last 14 league matches. What a horrible run of results.

👥 Head to head

Checking on their past head to head meetings going back to 19/11/2016 shows us that Nottingham Forest have won 4 of these games & Ipswich Town 1, with the tally of drawn games standing at 1.

A sum of 18 goals were shared by the two clubs during those clashes, with 12 of them for The Reds and 6 created by The Tractor Boys. That’s an average goals per game of 3.

The previous league fixture featuring these sides was Championship match day 38 on 16/03/2019 when it ended Ipswich Town 1-1 Nottingham Forest.

On that day, Ipswich Town managed 49% possession and 16 attempts on goal with 6 on target. The goals were scored by Collin Quaner (5') and Jon Nolan (31' Own goal).

At the other end, Nottingham Forest had 12 attempts on goal with 5 of them on target.

The match was refereed by Keith Stroud.

ℹ️ Team News: Nottingham Forest

Taiwo Awoniyi (unknown injury), Ibrahim Sangaré (Hamstring injury), Andrew Omobamidele (unknown injury) and Danilo (Foot injury) are not available for Nottingham Forest gaffer Nuno Espírito Santo.

In all likelihood, The Reds should line up in a 4-2-3-1 system for this one, utilising Matz Sels, Ola Aina, Nikola Milenkovic, Murillo, Alex Moreno, James Ward-Prowse, Nicolas Dominguez, Jota Silva, Ryan Yates, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Chris Wood.

🗞️ Team News: Ipswich Town

Ipswich Town manager Kieran McKenna has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Chiedozie Ogbene (Achilles tendon rupture), Jacob Greaves (Muscle injury) and Jack Taylor (Hamstring injury) miss out here.

We reckon that The Tractor Boys seem most likely to play in a 4-2-3-1 system using Arijanet Muric, Axel Tuanzebe, Dara O'Shea, Cameron Burgess, Leif Davis, Sam Morsy, Jens-Lys Cajuste, Wes Burns, Omari Hutchinson, Sammie Szmodics and Liam Delap.

💡 Prediction

Our thinking is that Nottingham Forest will more than likely score more than once when they face Ipswich Town, who won’t find it easy getting on the scoresheet.

Accordingly, we see a 2-0 winning margin for Nottingham Forest when the full-time whistle blows.

Our expert partners are tipping under 3.5 goals for this match. Check out their VIP predictions here.

Victor Martins, 14:01 30/11/2024