Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle United Preview


Nottingham Forest vs Newcastle United

Competition – Barclays Premier League

Stadium: The City Ground

Date: 17th March 2023

Kick-off time – 20:00 GMT

Nottingham Forest will welcome top four hopefuls Newcastle to the City Ground this Friday for their 28th Round game of the 2022/23 Premier League season.

The hosts are fighting for their lives in the Premier League with their target for the season still to finish in the top 17 places in the top flight.

Manager Steve Cooper is warning his players that they have to up their game if they are to secure their place in the Premier League. The manager was critical of his side for not “doing the non-negotiables a little bit better” as they slipped to a 3-1 defeat at Tottenham last weekend, a fifth match without a victory (D2, L3).

That run of form means the Tricky Trees are now just two points above the relegation zone as they fight to avoid an immediate return to the Championship. However, the bulk of their bad form has been on the road, as they are on an impressive nine-game unbeaten run at the City Ground (W4, D5), helping them to collect 20 of their 26 points this season on home soil.

Newcastle will fancy their chances of breaking that unbeaten run at the City ground with the Magpies unbeaten against Forest in the top-flight since 1988 (W6, D4).

They arrive at the City Ground hoping they have turned the corner with a late 2-1 win over Wolves last time out ending their five-match winless streak across all competitions (D2, L3).

That result rejuvenated their hopes of qualifying for a competition for the first time since 2006/07 as they are now just four points behind fourth-placed Spurs. But they surely need to find their goal-scoring touch in order to finish in a Champions League place as they have netted just once in their last four PL away fixtures (D3, L1).

Other fixtures taking place this week in the Premier League Fixtures:

December 7, 2024
Everton 01:00 Liverpool
December 26, 2024
Manchester City 13:30 Everton
AFC Bournemouth 16:00 Crystal Palace
Southampton 16:00 West Ham United
Chelsea 16:00 Fulham
Nottingham Forest 16:00 Tottenham Hotspur
Newcastle United 16:00 Aston Villa
Wolverhampton Wanderers 18:30 Manchester United
Liverpool 21:00 Leicester City
December 27, 2024
Brighton & Hov… 20:30 Brentford
Arsenal 21:15 Ipswich Town
December 29, 2024
Leicester City 15:30 Manchester City
Tottenham Hotspur 16:00 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Fulham 16:00 AFC Bournemouth
Crystal Palace 16:00 Southampton
Everton 16:00 Nottingham Forest
West Ham United 18:15 Liverpool
December 30, 2024
Aston Villa 20:45 Brighton & Hov…
Ipswich Town 20:45 Chelsea
Manchester United 21:00 Newcastle United

Premier League Table

# Team MP W D L F A G P
1 Liverpool 16 12 3 1 37 16 +21 39
2 Chelsea 17 10 5 2 37 19 +18 35
3 Arsenal 17 9 6 2 34 16 +18 33
4 Nottingham Forest 17 9 4 4 23 19 +4 31
5 AFC Bournemouth 17 8 4 5 27 21 +6 28
6 Aston Villa 17 8 4 5 26 26 +0 28
7 Manchester City 17 8 3 6 29 25 +4 27
8 Newcastle United 17 7 5 5 27 21 +6 26
9 Fulham 17 6 7 4 24 22 +2 25
10 Brighton & Hov… 17 6 7 4 27 26 +1 25
11 Tottenham Hotspur 17 7 2 8 39 25 +14 23
12 Brentford 17 7 2 8 32 32 +0 23
13 Manchester United 17 6 4 7 21 22 -1 22
14 West Ham United 17 5 5 7 22 30 -8 20
15 Everton 16 3 7 6 14 21 -7 16
16 Crystal Palace 17 3 7 7 18 26 -8 16
17 Leicester City 17 3 5 9 21 37 -16 14
18 Wolverhampton Wanderers 17 3 3 11 27 40 -13 12
19 Ipswich Town 17 2 6 9 16 32 -16 12
20 Southampton 17 1 3 13 11 36 -25 6

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