MATCH UPDATE: Nottingham Forest vs. Brighton & Hove Albion – prediction, team news, lineups

A week following a shocking and cruel Premier League title loss, Nottingham Forest will try to make amends when Brighton & Hove Albion visits the City Ground on Saturday.

In gameweek 23, Nuno Espirito Santo’s team lost to a fantastic Bournemouth team 5-0, and their

guests lost to David Moyes’s Everton 1-0 at home.

Match preview

Last weekend’s match between Forest and Bournemouth, two of the Premier League’s surprise

packages, had the potential to be an exciting matchup, and few should have been surprised to see

that five goals went into the Vitality Stadium nets.

But on the South Coast, where the brilliant Dango Ouattara stole the show with a hat-trick and

Justin Kluivert and Antoine Semenyo also broke through Matz Sels’ net, not even the bravest

Cherries fan could have predicted with confidence that their team would hit the Tricky Trees for

five without reply.

Even though Liverpool is now nine points ahead with a game remaining, Santo’s third-place team

is still mathematically possible despite Forest’s terrible away performance, which came just as

analysts were beginning to view them as serious contenders for the Premier League title.

An away day is just what the doctor ordered for Saturday’s visitors after they were thrashed at home. The Seagulls are still in the European picture, sitting ninth in the mid-season rankings, six points off the top six.

Brighton has won all three of their away games, including their FA Cup thumping of second-tier

Norwich City, and is undefeated in six away games. Hurzeler’s team has also scored in 14 straight

away games this season, pushing the net in 14 games away from their Amex base.

Possible starting lineup for Nottingham Forest: Anderson, Dominguez; Elanga, Gibbs-White, Silva; Wood; Sels; Aina, Murillo, Milenkovic, Williams

Possible starting lineup for Brighton & Hove Albion: Verbruggen; Baleba, Hinshelwood; Minteh,

Pedro, Mitoma; Veltman, Dunk, Van Hecke, Lamptey; Welbeck

PREDICTION

We predict that: Nottingham Forest 3-1 Brighton & Hove Albion

Santo’s team has our support to bounce back from Nottingham Forest’s embarrassing afternoon in Bournemouth right away, so it feels more like an isolated incident than the beginning of a downward spiral.

Brighton never had any trouble scoring when playing away from home, but their lack of creativity against Everton was concerning, and a motivated Forest team should make the most of it.

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