Nottingham Forest will be looking to extend their winning streak to five matches across all competitions when they travel to Cardiff City Stadium to take on a struggling Cardiff City in a crucial Championship fixture on Sunday evening with kickoff at 19:00.
Cardiff City have been on a downfall in the championship in the recent weeks with the side failing to win any of their last six matches suffering four defeats in the run. They were left empty handed in their previous match as they fell to a 3-2 defeat at away to Bristol City last Saturday. The defeat marked their second consecutive loss in the tier as they were coming off a 1-0 defeat to Blackburn Rovers at home.
As a result the City have slipped to the 20th place in the standings with 23 points collected from their 26 matches. They are now just three points above the relegation zone and they will need to pick up points on Sunday if they are stay out of the drop zone.
Although that will be hard as they face one of the form sides in the league now as Nottingham Forest have been on fire since the begin of the year. They have won all their four matches in 2022 across all competitions, scoring seven goals and keeping three clean sheets in the run. As a result they are just a place and two points outside the playoff places and have played one match less than the sixth-placed Huddersfield Town.
Being the most improved side in the division Nottingham will look to continue in their winnings ways as they charge for a playoff spot and they will fancy their chances in this match as they have won here in their last two consecutive visits and are in high spirits after that 3-0 win against Barnsley four days ago.
Cardiff vs Nottingham head to head
Both sides have met in 28 encounters since 2003 with Cardiff claiming 17 victories Nottingham have claimed six victories and there have been five draws
- Nottingham 1-2 Cardiff 12/09/21
- Cardiff 0-1 Nottingham 02/04/21
- Nottingham 1-0 Cardiff 09/01/21
- Nottingham 0-2 Cardiff 19/09/20
- Cardiff 0-1 Nottingham 25/02/20
Home
- Bristol City 3-2 Cardiff
- Cardiff 0-1 Blackburn
- Cardiff 2-0 Preston
- West Brom 1-1 Cardiff
- Bournemouth 3-0 Cardiff
Away
- Nottingham 3-0 Barnsley
- Nottingham 2-1 Derby County
- Millwall 0-1 Nottingham
- Nottingham 1-0 Arsenal
- Nottingham 0-1 Huddersfield
Cardiff City team news
Cardiff will be without Isaac Vassell and Sam Bowen through injuries.
Nottingham team news
Nottingham will be without Rodrigo Ely through injury concerns.
Prediction and odds
- Nottingham win
- Both sides to score (no)
- Goals under 2.5
