Nottingham Forest and Brentford will clash on Sunday the 1st of October at 2:00 pm in the 7th week of the Premier League. The match is going to take place in Nottingham at the The City Ground. The referee will be Paul Tierney.

Nottingham Forest sits in the 12th position in the table with 7 points. It comes from a 2-0 loss against Manchester City in its last match in the Premier League. Until now, it has won twice, drawn once, and lost 3 times.​​

Brentford is in the 14th place in the standings with 6 points. It comes from a 1-3 loss against Everton in its last match in the Premier League. Up to now, it has draw 4 times and lost twice.

Line-ups predictions​

These are the projected line-ups according to our predictions.​

Nottingham Forest​

Nottingham Forest has mostly adopted the 3-4-3 line-up most used during the season (3 times or 50.00%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 3-4-3 (3 times), 5-3-2 (once), 4-2-3-1 (once) and 3-4-2-1 (once).

Steve Cooper is expected to play against Brentford with the following players: Matt Turner, Ola Aina, Willy Boly, Joe Worrall, Serge Aurier, Ibrahim Sangaré, Orel Mangala, Callum Hudson-Odoi, Morgan Gibbs-White, Anthony Elanga and Taiwo Awoniyi.

In case that this will be the line-up, the projected average age of Nottingham Forest would be 26.27.

Steve Cooper will probably not be able to employ Scott McKenna because of injury.

Wayne Hennessey, Ethan Horvath, Felipe, Nuno Tavares and Danilo will definitely miss the match.

Brentford​

Brentford has mostly adopted the 4-3-3 line-up most used during the season (4 times or 66.67%).

Overall, it adopted the following line-ups: 4-3-3 (4 times), 3-5-2 (once) and 5-3-2 (once).

Thomas Frank is expected to play against Nottingham Forest with the following players: Mark Flekken, Aaron Hickey, Nathan Collins, Ethan Pinnock, Kristoffer Ajer, Mathias Jensen, Christian Nörgaard, Vitaly Janelt, Keane Lewis-Potter, Bryan Mbeumo and Yoane Wissa.

Assuming that the line up is confirmed, the estimate average age of Brentford would be 25.64.

Rico Henry, Ben Mee, Shandon Baptiste, Mikkel Damsgaard, Josh Dasilva and Kevin Schade will definitely miss the match.

Thomas Frank will not be able to have the presence of Ivan Toney  who is suspended​​.

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