A 1-1 draw away at Blackburn Rovers on Tuesday night extended Nottingham Forest’s unbeaten run in the Championship to an impressive 9 matches and helped lift the Tricky Trees up into 4th place in the second tier.
Forest have made a solid start to this new campaign as they’ve lost just 1 of their first 10 matches of this new Championship season, which was a 2-1 defeat at home to 3rd placed West Brom, but new manager, Sabri Lamouchi, has instilled a new sense of belief at the City Ground and the hosts are gathering momentum.
Following that opening day defeat to West Brom, Nottingham Forest have responded in positive fashion on home turf by recording wins against Birmingham City 3-1 and Barnsley 1-0 with a point in between thanks to a 1-1 draw with play-off hopefuls, Preston North End.
With just 3 defeats out of their last 13 matches in the Championship at the City Ground, Nottingham Forest will be in confident mood, especially as they’ve registered 9 wins out of these last 13 on home soil.
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Brentford currently occupy a position in the bottom half of the Championship in 15th place prior to their visit to the east midlands on Saturday afternoon, and whilst The Bees are not renowned for picking up points on the road in the Championship, 2 of their 3 wins to date have been achieved on their travels.
Victories at Middlesbrough 1-0 and Barnsley 3-1 have seen Brentford pick up welcome maximum points on their travels, but in between these two wins have been 3 defeats on the trot.
Losses at Leeds United, Charlton Athletic and Preston North End were all to nil, and the growing concern of the hole that former striker, Neil Maupay, has left after he departed for Premier League side, Brighton, is perhaps starting to show, particularly away from their beloved Griffin Park.
With just 5 away wins out of their last 30 matches on the road in the Championship, Brentford’s task of grabbing all three points against an in-form Nottingham Forest appear distinctly remote.
Brentford’s mission seems even harder when you consider The Bees have kept just 4 clean sheets from these last 30 away matches too.
In short, Nottingham Forest look the better equipped to take the points in this clash.