Nottingham Forest and Newcastle United will face on Saturday the 10th of February at 5:30 pm in the 24th week of the Premier League. The match is going to be staged in Nottingham at the The City Ground. The appointed referee is Anthony Taylor.
Nottingham Forest occupies the 16th position in the table with 21 points. It comes from a 1-1 draw against AFC Bournemouth in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won 5 times, draw 6 times, and lost 12 times.
Newcastle United sits in the 9th place in the standings with 33 points. It comes from a 4-4 draw against Luton Town in its last match in the Premier League. As of now, it has won 10 times, draw 3 times, and lost 10 times.
Line-ups predictions
These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.
Nottingham Forest
Nottingham Forest has mostly adopted the 4-2-3-1 line-up during the season (8 times or 34.78%).
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-2-3-1 (8 times), 4-3-3 (7 times), 3-4-3 (3 times), 3-5-2 (2 times), 5-3-2 (2 times) and 3-4-2-1 (once).
Nuno Herlander Simões Espírito Santo is expected to play against Newcastle United with the following players: Matz Sels, Nuno Tavares, Andrew Omobamidele, Murillo, Neco Williams, Ryan Yates, Danilo, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Anthony Elanga and Taiwo Awoniyi.
In case that the line up is confirmed as above, the resulting average age of Nottingham Forest would be 24.60.
There are doubts about the presence of Morgan Gibbs-White.
Ola Aina, Willy Boly, Gonzalo Montiel, Ibrahim Sangaré and Chris Wood will definitely miss the match.
Newcastle United
Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (23 times).
Eddie Howe is expected to play against Nottingham Forest with the following players: Martin Dúbravka, Dan Burn, Fabian Schär, Sven Botman, Kieran Trippier, Bruno Guimarães, Lewis Miley, Sean Longstaff, Miguel Almirón, Jacob Murphy and Callum Wilson.
In case that the above line up is confirmed, the projected average age of Newcastle United would be 29.27.
Eddie Howe will probably not be able to employ Jamaal Lascelles because of injury.
Nick Pope, Elliot Anderson, Joelinton, Matt Targett, Joseph Willock, Anthony Gordon and Alexander Isak will definitely miss the match.
Eddie Howe will not be able to have the presence of Sandro Tonali who is suspended.