Nottingham Forest v QPR Betting Tips [22 February 2020]

Nottingham Forest are making a real surge for promotion and they snatched a 2-2 draw away at West Brom last week leaving them 5th on 55 points, four off the automatic promotion places. They will welcome QPR to the City Ground who came from two goals down to beat Stoke City 4-2 last weekend. The R’s are now 16th on 42 points. 

Forest have two wins from their last five and Sabri Lamouchi will be hoping to start turning draws into wins as well. You feel it will need to be wins rather than draws if a side is to stake a claim in the top-six. A point away at table-toppers West Brom will be a point gained rather than two dropped but a win is a must here against this QPR side. Forest have won four of their last six games at home and one of those victories was over 2nd place Leeds so are a tough nut to crack when hosting. Charlton came here and left with all three points in a 1-0 win the last time Forest played here so they will be keen to amend that result by getting back to winning ways in front of their own fans this weekend. 

QPR came from behind to register their first win in six games in all competitions and their first in five in the Championship. However, QPR are winless in their last six games on the road stretching back to mid-December and five of those were defeats. The R’s have just one victory away from home in their last 10 games and have accumulated just 17 points from a possible 48 on their travels this season. QPR have scored 51 goals in 33 league games this season but their average goals scored in games away from home is 1.1 compared to 1.9 in home games.  

Forest have won half of their home games this season and recent results against Leeds and West Brom leaves them in a good position heading into this game. QPR score goals but they have scored two or more goals in four of their last six away games so I’m tipping a home win here.