Nottingham Forest and Chelsea are going to face on Sunday the 1st of January at 4:30 pm in the 18th week of the Premier League. The match will be staged in Nottingham at the The City Ground. The referee will be Peter Bankes.
Nottingham Forest occupies the 19th position in the league with 13 points. It comes from a 3-0 loss against Manchester United in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 3 times, draw 4 times, and lost 9 times.
Chelsea is in the 9th place in the table with 24 points. It comes from a 2-0 win against AFC Bournemouth in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 7 times, draw 3 times, and lost 5 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 43.75%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (7 times), 3-4-1-2 (3 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times), 4-3-1-2 (once) and 4-2-3-1 (once).
Steve Cooper is expected to play against Chelsea with the following players: D. Henderson, R. Lodi dos Santos, J. Worrall, N. Williams, R. Freuler, W. Boly, O. Mangala, R. Yates, E. Dennis, B. Johnson and T. Awoniyi.
Suppose that the above line up is confirmed, the average age of Nottingham Forest would be 26.09.
Steve Cooper will probably not be able to employ O. Richards, M. Gibbs-White and J. Lingard because of injury.
G. Biancone, M. Niakhate and C. Kouyaté will definitely miss the match.
Chelsea
Chelsea has mostly adopted the 3-4-2-1 line-up most used during the season (5 times or 33.33%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-2-1 (5 times), 4-3-3 (2 times), 4-2-3-1 (2 times), 3-5-1-1 (once), 4-3-1-2 (once), 3-1-4-2 (once), 4-4-2 (once), 3-5-2 (once) and 3-4-3 (once).
Graham Potter is expected to play against Nottingham Forest with the following players: K. Arrizabalaga Revuelta, M. Cucurella, K. Koulibaly, T. da Silva, C. Azpilicueta Tanco, Jorginho, L. Hall, C. Gallagher, M. Mount, R. Sterling and K. Havertz.
Granting that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Chelsea would be 28.18.
Graham Potter will probably not be able to employ E. Mendy, M. Kovačić, R. Loftus-Cheek and H. Ziyech because of injury.
B. Chilwell, W. Fofana, R. James, N. Kanté and A. Broja will definitely miss the match.