📊 Form Guide

West Ham United

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West Ham United, buoyed by their previous result, will be hoping for more of the same after the 0-2 Premier League victory over Manchester United.

In that match, West Ham United had 48% possession and 9 shots at goal with 4 on target. For West Ham United, the scorers were Tomáš Souček (26') and Jarrod Bowen (57'). On the other side, Manchester United got 20 shots at goal with 5 on target.

West Ham United haven’t had any problems with scoring, netting every time they’ve gone out to play in their last 6 games.

They have managed to rack up 9 during that period while seeing the number of goals scored against them stand at 9.

Taking a look at their past results, West Ham United:

• have not beaten Nottingham Forest in their last 2 league games.
• are undefeated in their previous 3 home league matches.
• haven’t won at home in the past 4 league matches. That's never good.

Nottingham Forest

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In the game prior to this, Nottingham Forest drew 2-2 in the Premier League match with Leicester City.

In that game, Nottingham Forest managed 56% possession and 15 attempts on goal with 4 of them on target. For Nottingham Forest, goals were scored by Morgan Gibbs-White (25') and Chris Wood (56'). Leicester City had 10 attempts at goal with 6 of them on target. Conor Coady (16') and Facundo Buonanotte (81') scored for Leicester City.

The stats don’t lie, and Nottingham Forest have been scored against in 6 of their last 6 matches, conceding 9 goals overall. At the back, Nottingham Forest certainly have room for improvement. Such a trend won’t necessarily be sustained into this match, however.

Leading up to this clash, Nottingham Forest:

• have not registered a win against West Ham United when having played them away from home in the previous 6 league matches. Not the best of away records.
• are undefeated in their last 2 away league matches.

👥 Head to head

Inspecting their prior head to head clashes stretching back to 05/01/2014 shows that West Ham United have won 2 of them & Nottingham Forest 4, with the number of draws being 0.

A combined total of 20 goals were produced between them throughout the course of those matches, with 7 of them for The Hammers and 13 for The Reds. That’s an average goals per game of 3.33.

The last league contest featuring these sides was Premier League match day 10 on 02/11/2024 which finished with the scoreline of Nottingham Forest 3-0 West Ham United.

On that day, Nottingham Forest managed 53% possession and 19 shots on goal with 6 on target. Goals were scored by Chris Wood (27'), Callum Hudson-Odoi (65') and Ola Aina (78').

For their opponents, West Ham United had 4 attempts on goal with 2 on target.

The match was refereed by Peter Bankes.

ℹ️ Team News: West Ham United

Michail Antonio (Broken leg) and Crysencio Summerville (Thigh problems) will not be taking part for West Ham United gaffer Graham Potter.

We are thinking that The Hammers will possibly employ a 4-4-2 system for the game and select Alphonse Areola, Jean-Clair Todibo, Max Kilman, Aaron Cresswell, Vladimir Coufal, James Ward-Prowse, Guido Rodriguez, Aaron Wan-Bissaka, Tomas Soucek, Jarrod Bowen and Mohammed Kudus.

📰 Team News: Nottingham Forest

Nottingham Forest boss Nuno Espírito Santo has to choose from a squad that has some fitness concerns. Taiwo Awoniyi (coma) and Callum Hudson-Odoi (Thigh problems) will miss out on this game.

We are inclined to think that The Reds seem most likely to utilise a 4-2-3-1 formation, choosing Matz Sels, Ola Aina, Nikola Milenkovic, Murillo, Neco Williams, Ibrahim Sangare, Elliot Anderson, Nicolas Dominguez, Morgan Gibbs-White, Anthony Elanga and Chris Wood.

⚡ Prediction

Our feeling is that Nottingham Forest and West Ham United should both get enough opportunities to score, although it’s hard to separate the two.

We’ll see, but this looks like it could end up all-square. We’re therefore expecting a very close game with a score draw at the end of the 90 minutes.

Andre Moura, 13:03 18/05/2025