Everton vs Nottingham Premier League Prediction

Overview

Everton continued to prove their annoyance by holding Manchester City to a 1-1 draw in the Premier League round 18 match. Before that, The Toffees also successfully shared points with both Arsenal and Chelsea, and defeated Wolves 4-0.

Returning to Goodison Park to welcome Nottingham Forest, coach Sean Dyche's team has a certain confidence because they have been unbeaten in 6 consecutive matches at their home ground.

However, Nottingham are one of the teams with the best form in the Premier League at the moment. Coach Nuno Espirino Santo's team just defeated Tottenham with a minimum score thanks to the only goal of Antony Elanga.

The win over Spurs extended Nottingham's winning streak in the Premier League to four and was their fifth win in the last six games. Since the start of the season, apart from Tottenham, Nottingham have also beaten Liverpool and Man United and climbed to fourth place in the standings.

Coach Nuno now has two dangerous attacking players, Chris Wood and Elanga. While Wood has scored 10 goals this season, Elanga has scored in the last 3 consecutive matches and has won all of them with his team.

Since returning to the Premier League two seasons ago, Nottingham Forest have failed to beat Everton in four attempts. The Toffees won both games against Everton last season, keeping a clean sheet in both.

Human resources situation

Ashley Young could return to Everton's starting line-up after serving a suspension for the match against Man City.

On the other side of the front line, Nottingham Forest will be without key midfielder Ryan Yates due to suspension, the player picked up his fifth yellow card of the season in the match against Tottenham on Boxing Day.

Expected lineup:

Everton: Pickford, Young, Tarkowski, Branthwaite, Mykolenko, Harrison, Gueye, Mangala, Doucoure, Ndiaye, Calvert-Lewin.

Nottingham Forest: Sels, Aina, Murillo, Milenkovic, Williams, Ward-Prowse, Anderson, Elanga, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Wood.