Millwall vs Nottingham Forest Live Stream, Predictions

📏 Form Guide

Millwall

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Millwall will be hoping to return to winning ways here following a 1-2 FA Cup loss in their previous game against Crystal Palace.

In that game, Millwall had 43% possession and 9 shots on goal with 5 on target. The only player to score for Millwall was Benik Afobe (17'). At the other end, Crystal Palace got 12 shots at goal with 4 of them on target. Michael Olise (46') and Jean-Philippe Mateta (58') scored for Crystal Palace.

Millwall have not been the best at stopping their opponents lately, but they have also managed to hit the back of the net themselves. Looking at their last 6 games, Millwall have been punished defensively in 5 of them while also scoring in 6 of those matches. Despite that, it remains to be seen if that trend shall be maintained here in this match.

Ahead of this clash, Millwall haven't won against Nottingham Forest in their previous 3 league matches.

Nottingham Forest

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Nottingham Forest will go into this meeting following on from a 1-0 FA Cup win as they beat Arsenal in their previous match.

In that game, Nottingham Forest had 33% possession and 7 attempts at goal with 3 of them on target. The only player on the scoresheet for Nottingham Forest was Lewis Grabban (83'). Arsenal got 10 shots on goal with 0 on target.

During their six previous matches, Steve Cooper's Nottingham Forest have fired home a total of 9 times therefore giving them the goals scored per game average of 1.5.

Pre-game facts show that Nottingham Forest:

• have not won against Millwall in away games against them for the last 6 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• are undefeated by Millwall in games played away from home for the previous 2 league matches.

↔️ Head to head

A review of their most recent head-to-head meetings stretching back to 29/12/2018 tells us that Millwall have won 2 of these and Nottingham Forest 1, with the number of drawn matches standing at 3.

A total of 16 goals were scored between them throughout the course of those matches, with 9 of them from The Lions and 7 created by The Reds. This gives an average number of goals per game equal to 2.67.

📰 Team News: Millwall

Maikel Kieftenbeld (Knock) and Daniel Ballard (Knee Surgery) will be missing for Millwall gaffer Gary Rowett.

In our view, The Lions may well employ a 3-5-2 formation this time with Bartosz Bialkowski, Shaun Hutchinson, Alex Pearce, Jake Cooper, Danny McNamara, Sheyi Ojo, George Evans, George Saville, Murray Wallace, Tom Bradshaw and Benik Afobe.

📋 Team News: Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest boss Steve Cooper has to contend with a number of unavailable players. Rodrigo Ely (Muscular problems), Max Lowe (Groin Strain) and Alex Mighten (Knee Injury) will miss out on this game.

We’re of the thinking that The Reds seem likely to utilise a 3-4-3 lineup with a starting lineup of Brice Samba, Joe Worrall, Steve Cook, Scott Mckenna, Djed Spence, Ryan Yates, James Garner, Jack Colback, Philip Zinckernagel, Lewis Grabban and Brennan Johnson.

⚡ Prediction

We believe that Nottingham Forest might have a difficult job to get anything against this Millwall side who will likely score one, at least.

We therefore fancy a narrow 1-0 winning score for Millwall after 90 minutes.

Looking forward to this.

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Lucas Pereira, 00:55 11/01/2022