Nottingham Forest host Fulham in Match week fourteen of the Championship at the City Ground. The hosts are placed fourteenth in the league standings with seventeen points from their thirteen fixtures while the visitors have twenty-six points from thirteen games. Nottingham Forest come into the game with a six-game unbeaten run with five wins and a draw, after a rather shaky start to the season. Their most recent result in the Championship was a 2-1 win over Bristol City on the road. Despite them regaining their form, Steve Cooper’s side have some groundwork to do when it comes to defending. They have not kept a clean sheet in six out of their last eight matches and also have had more than 2.5 goals in each of their last four fixtures. Nottingham Forest have been indulged in high scoring games due to their newly regained regular goal-scoring abilities coupled with constant defensive inconsistencies.
Fulham are in the reckoning for possible promotion to the Premier League by the end of the season. They come into the Nottingham Forest fixture with two wins in a row against Queens Park Rangers and Cardiff City at home. Fulham have been scoring goals with ease and have netted twenty-nine goals in just thirteen matches, which is the highest in the division. However, much like Nottingham Forest, they have not kept many clean sheets in the current season. As a matter of fact, they have just managed a single clean sheet in four out of their last five matches. As a result. Fulham have had more than 2.5 goals in three out of their last four matches. It is also to be noted that there have been more than 2.5 goals in each of their last four meetings between the two sides.
While Fulham are in the fray for a place in the Championship play-offs at the end of the season, Nottingham Forest are down the pecking order in the league. The two teams have struggled to keep clean sheets and are defensively susceptible. We are going for over 2.5 goals in this fixture.