Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle United Prediction, Betting Tips and Preview
Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United lock horns in the Championship this Friday. Read the match predictions to find out why an away win is the betting tip at the City Ground. The Tricky Trees come into this on the back of an impressive 2-5 win away to Barnsley while Newcastle will be looking to bounce back from their EFL Cup exit where they went out on penalties away to Hull City, despite dominating the game.
Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle United Preview
Nottm Forest will welcome back striker Britt Assombalonga who has recovered from a hamstring injury. The hosts have to do some reshuffling at the back with Hildeberto Pereira suspended, Daniel Pinillos and Armand Traore injured and Eric Lichaj also unlikely to prove his fitness. That’s on top of long-term injuries to skipper Chris Cohen and striker Matty Fryatt.
Newcastle look set to make changes after being taken to Extra-Time and penalties on Tuesday night. DeAndre Yedlin and Paul Dummet should occupy the full-back positions with Christian Atsu and Jack Colback also likely to come into the equation. Mo Diame could drop to the bench with Ayoze perez pushing for a recall behind Dwight Gayle.
Team Predictions Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle United
Nottm Forest 3-5-1-1 formation: Stojkovic; Worrall, Perquis, Mills; Fox, Lam, Lansbury, Kasami, Mancienne; Osborn; Assombalonga
Newcastle 4-4-1-1 formation: Darlow; Dummett; Clark, Lascelles, Yedlin; Atsu, Shelvey, Colback, Ritchie; Perez; Gayle
Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle United Betting Tips
- Nottm Forest have won 3 drawn 2 and lost 5 of their last 10 matches
- Newcastle have won 8 drawn 1 and lost 1 of their last 10 matches
- Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Nottm Forest have scored an average of 1.6 goals and conceded an average of 1.5 goals per game
- Over the course of their previous 10 matches, Newcastle have scored an average of 2.1 goals and conceded an average of 0.4 goals per game
- There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 6 of Nottm Forest’s previous 10 matches
- There have been over 2.5 goals scored in 5 of Newcastle’s previous 10 matches
Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle United Prediction
Nottingham Forest come into this game on a three game unbeaten run which began with a 1-1 draw at home to strugglers QPR. They then registered a rare clean sheet when winning 0-2 away to Ipswich and found their goalscoring touch against Barnsley last time out. Forest remain in the lower reaches of the table and are only 4 points above the relegation zone.
Newcastle had been in cruise control until hitting a bump in the road recently. They almost got away with fielding a weakened team at home to Blackburn but were beaten 0-1. The Magpies looked far the better side away to Hull City in the League Cup but couldn’t find a breakthrough and went on to lose the resulting shoot-out. Newcastle remain top of the table and will be switching their focus back to the league here.
Nottingham Forest may have started to turn the corner but have won just once from the last six games in front of a home crowd. Newcastle’s traveling form was often their undoing in the top-flight but at this level they’re unbeaten in eight away matches in the Championship and have won seven of those. The visitors have been scoring for fun and the hosts don’t keep many clean sheets, so there should be a few goals in a match that Newcastle will win.
Free Betting Tips
Match Prediction
NEWCASTLE at 4/5 with Betfred
Over/Under Prediction
OVER 2.5 goals at 4/5 with Sportingbet
Correct Score Prediction
NEWCASTLE 3-1 at 13/1 with BetVictor
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