📏 Form Guide

Nottingham Forest

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Nottingham Forest fans will want a repeat of their previous result, being a 2-0 FA Cup triumph versus Luton Town.

In that game, Nottingham Forest had 45% possession and 11 attempts at goal with 3 on target. For Nottingham Forest, the scorers were Ryan Yates (40') and Ramón Sosa (68'). Luton Town got 8 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target.

Their more recent scorelines really do illustrate the point that huge efforts have been put in by the Nottingham Forest defence. Nottingham Forest have been miserly, with the tally of goals that have gone in at their end during their previous 6 games standing at 3. Previous results aside, time will tell if such a trend shall be sustained here in this match.

Coming into this fixture, Nottingham Forest are undefeated in their last 3 league matches at home.

Liverpool

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Liverpool will go into this clash after a 4-0 FA Cup win with the downing of Accrington Stanley in their last game.

In that match, Liverpool managed 79% possession and 22 shots on goal with 9 on target. For Liverpool, the scorers were Diogo Jota (29'), Trent Alexander-Arnold (45'), Jayden Danns (76') and Federico Chiesa (90'). Accrington Stanley got 8 attempts at goal with 1 on target.

With their forward play coming to the fore of late, Liverpool have enjoyed getting themselves an absolute glut of goals over their previous 6 games (18 to be exact). That means that they have an ominous average of 3 goals scored per match during this period.

Ahead of this clash, Liverpool are undefeated in their last 2 away league matches.

🤜🤛 Head to head

An examination of their prior head to head meetings going back to 20/03/2022 shows that Nottingham Forest have won 2 of these and Liverpool 4, with the tally of drawn matches standing at 0.

12 goals were scored between them in these games, with 4 of them from The Reds and 8 coming from The Reds. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.

The previous league fixture between these clubs was Premier League match day 4 on 14/09/2024 when it ended Liverpool 0-1 Nottingham Forest.

On that day, Liverpool had 70% possession and 14 shots at goal with 5 of them on target.

Nottingham Forest had 5 shots at goal with 3 on target. Callum Hudson-Odoi (72') was the scorer.

The referee was Michael Oliver.

📰 Team News: Nottingham Forest

There’s just the sole fitness concern for the Nottingham Forest manager Nuno Espírito Santo to be concerned with due to a largely intact squad. Ibrahim Sangaré (Hamstring injury) won’t play.

In our view, The Reds could use a 4-2-3-1 formation for the game, beginning the first half with Matz Sels, Ola Aina, Nikola Milenkovic, Murillo, Neco Williams, Nicolas Dominguez, Elliot Anderson, Anthony Elanga, Morgan Gibbs-White, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Chris Wood.

🗞️ Team News: Liverpool

Owing to an otherwise healthy squad, there is just the lone fitness issue for the Liverpool boss Arne Slot to contend with. Joe Gomez (Hamstring injury) misses out for this game.

From our viewpoint, The Reds might make use of a 4-2-3-1 formation with a starting lineup of Alisson Becker, T. Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, Ryan Gravenberch, Alexis Mac Allister, Mohamed Salah, Curtis Jones, Cody Gakpo and Luis Diaz.

🔮 Prediction

We’ve got the feeling that Nottingham Forest will have to play well to get anything against this Liverpool side who we think will likely score one, at least.

That’s why our selection here is for a narrow 0-1 win for Liverpool at the end of this one.

Should be a close one.

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

Victor Martins, 19:03 14/01/2025