Nottingham Forest will be looking to keep up their chase for a top-five place when they travel to Tottenham Hotspur. Going into this round 33 match in the Premier League, Tottenham are placed 15th and Forest 10 places higher. Here’s our prediction for the match.
Tottenham have done better in Europe than in the Premier League. They will hope to improve here, as they return from a successful outing in Europe.
The hosts are coming from a 1-0 win at Eintracht Frankfurt, which confirmed their place in the Europa League semis. However, in the Premier League, they’ve lost three of their last four matches.
The latest of those was a 4-2 loss at Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Nottingham Forest will see this as a perfect chance to bounce back from tribulations of their own. The visitors are coming from a 1-0 home loss to Everton, a result that marked their second defeat on the bounce.
Earlier, Forest had also lost 2-1 to top-five-chasing Aston Villa. These two defeats have seen Nottingham Forest drop from third to their current fifth position. As teams around them posted wins in earlier matches, Forest can’t afford more slips.
Four losses in five away matches, however, mean Nottingham have more work to do.
The last meeting between these teams was unusual in the fact that only one goal was scored. None of the previous eight meetings had returned less than two goals. Spurs actually scored three times in the last three matches when they hosted Nottingham Forest.
The two sides are coming into this game with prolific forwards and a history of high-scoring games. We will back the same here. Our prediction for Tottenham Hotspur v Nottingham Forest is for over 2.5 goals.