Stoke City vs Nottingham Forest
England Championship
Date: Friday, 27 September 2019
Kick-off at 20:00 UK / 21:00 CET
Venue: Bet365 Stadium (Stoke on Trent).
A goalless draw at Brentford last in the league saw Stoke take only their second point of the season. The Staffordshire outfit were in the League Cup in midweek away at Crawley and continued their poor recent run, losing on penalties.
In stage Bet365, potters have played four times this campaign and managed to take one point. They sent eight goals on the road with only Wigan (nine) have conceded more in the division.
Nottingham Forest stretched their unbeaten run to seven, but was a bit lucky to beat Barnsley 1-0 in their last league match. In midweek, they were also in action the League Cup trip to the Emirates to face Arsenal and down at a complete loss 5-0.
Far from the city to the ground, the Tricky Trees have won each of their last two on the road and are unbeaten in four this season. They have the third best defense in the road in the division with only three which is granted by Leeds beat Swansea (one each).
Stoke are favorites to win this game, but we could not take the side of a team that is still winning at home this campaign. Forests are opponents of the delicate road and shipped just three goals in this campaign. We think it could be tight early and take the game to be level at half-time and a smaller interest on the same result after 60 minutes.
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Stoke City
Predicted line-up (3-5-2): Butland; Carter-Vickers, Lindsay, Martins Indi; Edwards, Badou N'Diaye, Etebo, Clucas, McClean; Ince, Gregory
Not available: Shawcross (Injured), Allen (Suspended), Collins (Suspended)
Doubtful: Powell (Injured)
NOTTINGHAM FOREST
Predicted line-up (4-2-3-1): Samba; Cash, Dawson, Worrall, Yuri Ribeiro; Watson, Sow; Lolley, Tiago Silva, Joao Carvalho; Grabban
Not available: Darikwa (Injured), Benalouane (Hurt), Hefele (Hurt), Rafa Mir (Hurt), Jenkinson (Hurt), Yates (Injured)
doubtful:
Prediction Stoke City vs. Nottingham Forest
This goes back to the day job for City and forest after the second midweek Cup exit Carabao suffer. Stoke know giantkilling disgrace while Forest were on the wrong end of a thrashing at Arsenal.
It's been a steep learning curve in the last few seasons for the Potters. They learned the hard way that bounce back to the Premier League at the first time of asking is one of the most difficult tasks in football.
And so far this season, there is little sign that they learned one hard lesson 2018-19.
Saturday's trip to west London saw Potters record their first clean sheet of the league season. A goalless draw at Brentford is credited point but also underlines their goal-shy attack.
Last season, only four teams scored fewer than 45 goals Stoke and two of them relegated. This year, only three teams have fewer than seven teams scored by Nathan Jones. No Stoke have conceded more than 17 joint-worst record division of which they share with bottom-of-the-table Huddersfield Town.
Eight matches in boys and Jones' are without a win by points just taken from Brentford and Derby. However, only the promotion favorites Leeds United beat Stoke; 3-0 winners back in August in a brief their southern trip.
Forests, meanwhile, are unbeaten since losing to West Bromwich Albion on the opening day of the season (W4, D3). Lamouchi side claimed some notable scalp in Fulham and Swansea City, two teams flew until they face Forest.
As their hosts, Forest is flush with goals. Lamouchi side are the lowest scoring in the top seven and only Blackburn Rovers out of ten have scored fewer. During the holding tight defense - only Leeds and Swansea conceded fewer than Forest seven - which should not be too much of a problem.
Stoke defense set for a busy night, however. their concentration should be constant with seven players scoring eleven goals Forest so far.
Lewis Grabban has four, Albert Admonah two, with five of the squad on one. This spread of healthy and one that stands Lamouchi in good stead for the upcoming campaign.
Forests are a team of two that are most likely to have a voice in the promotion race. On this occasion, we Stoke City vs Nottingham Forest predictions see little chance the home team denting their ambitions.
Stoke vs Nottingham betting tips
Stoke Potters or how they are known in England are not in a good situation for the moment. After the first 8 rounds, they are the next to last with only one point more than last-place team. So far they are still winless, they recorded two draws and 6 losses and this match against a stronger opponent will be a challenge for them. In these 8 games, they scored 7 and 17 goals allowed which is exactly 3 goals per game average.
Moreover, Nottingham has had good results recently. They are in sixth place in the table with 4 wins, 3 draws and one defeat to date. In the last 9 straight games, their defense did an amazing job and they remained undefeated. In this period, they allowed only 4 goals. They know how to control the game and keep their heads if they score first, I believe in their victory.
BTTS @ 1.80 (4/5)
Double Chance: Draw or Nottingham Forest @ 1.40 (2/5).
