Southampton and Nottingham Forest will play on Wednesday the 4th of January at 7:30 pm in the 19th week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Southampton at the St. Mary’s Stadium. The encounter will be officiated by Thomas Bramall.
Southampton occupies the 20th place in the league with 12 points. It comes from a 2-1 loss against Fulham in its last match in the Premier League. Thus far, it has won 3 times, draw 3 times, and lost 11 times.
Nottingham Forest is in the 18th place in the league with 14 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against Chelsea in its last match in the Premier League. So far, it has won 3 times, draw 5 times, and lost 9 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Southampton
Southampton has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up most used during the season (7 times or 41.18%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (7 times), 4-4-2 (5 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times) and 4-3-3 (once).
Nathan Jones is expected to play against Nottingham Forest with the following players: G. Bazunu, A. Bella-Kotchap, Lyanco, M. Karim, R. Perraud, K. Walker-Peters, J. Ward-Prowse, I. Diallo, M. Elyounoussi, J. Aribo and C. Adams.
If the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Southampton would be 25.55.
Nathan Jones will probably not be able to employ A. McCarthy, J. Larios López, V. Livramento, M. Djenepo, S. Edozie and T. Walcott because of injury.
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (8 times or 47.06%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (8 times), 3-4-1-2 (4 times), 3-4-2-1 (2 times), 4-3-1-2 (once), 4-2-3-1 (once) and 5-3-2 (once).
Steve Cooper is expected to play against Southampton with the following players: D. Henderson, R. Lodi dos Santos, J. Worrall, W. Boly, S. Aurier, R. Freuler, O. Mangala, R. Yates, M. Gibbs-White, B. Johnson and T. Awoniyi.
Granting that the line up is confirmed, the average age of Nottingham Forest would be 26.64.
Steve Cooper will probably not be able to employ O. Richards because of injury.
G. Biancone, M. Niakhate, C. Kouyaté and J. Lingard will definitely miss the match.