Brentford and Nottingham Forest will face off on Saturday the 29th of April at 3:00 pm in the 34th week of the Premier League. The match will take place in London at the Brentford Community Stadium. The appointed referee is Peter Bankes.
Brentford is in the 9th position in the league with 47 points. It comes from a 0-2 win against Chelsea in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 11 times, draw 14 times, and lost 8 times.
Nottingham Forest is in the 17th place in the standings with 30 points. It comes from a 3-1 win against Brighton & Hove Albion in its last match in the Premier League. To date, it has won 7 times, draw 9 times, and lost 17 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Brentford
Brentford has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (17 times or 51.52%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (17 times), 3-5-2 (10 times), 5-3-2 (5 times) and (once).
Thomas Frank is expected to play against Nottingham Forest with the following players: David Raya, Rico Henry, Ethan Pinnock, Ben Mee, Aaron Hickey, Vitaly Janelt, Mikkel Damsgaard, Mathias Jensen, Kevin Schade, Bryan Mbeumo and Ivan Toney.
Suppose that the line up is confirmed as above, the projected average age of Brentford would be 26.09.
Thomas Strakosha, Kristoffer Ajer, Pontus Jansson, Christian Nørgaard and Keane Lewis-Potter will definitely miss the match.
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (8 times or 24.24%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (8 times), 4-3-2-1 (6 times), 3-4-2-1 (5 times), 4-3-1-2 (5 times), 3-4-1-2 (4 times), 4-2-3-1 (3 times), 5-3-2 (once) and (once).
Steve Cooper is expected to play against Brentford with the following players: Keylor Navas, Joe Worrall, Felipe, Serge Aurier, Renan Lodi, Remo Freuler, Danilo, Orel Mangala, Morgan Gibbs-White and Brennan Johnson.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the estimate average age of Nottingham Forest would be 27.60.
There are doubts about the presence of Taiwo Awoniyi.
Steve Cooper will probably not be able to employ Moussa Niakhaté and Jonjo Shelvey because of injury.
Dean Henderson, Giulian Biancone, Willy Boly, Scott Mckenna, Omar Richards, Jack Colback, Neco Williams, Ryan Yates and Chris Wood will definitely miss the match.