Nottingham Forest will be bidding to extend their winning to four games this week when they welcome Coventry City to the City Ground Stadium in the EFL Championship. Match day schedules for 6th April 2022 at 21:45 EAT.
Nottingham Forest occupies the 7th place with 61 points in the Championship standings. In their campaign so far, they have picked up 17 wins against 10 losses and, 10 draws. Nottingham Forest is in great form, and the home fans will love it as they have won all the last three games that they have played at home.
The Forest has their hopes high coming off 1-4 Championship win to beat Blackpool in their last action. In that game, Nottingham had 50% possession, 17 shots with seven of them on target and goals scored by Philip Zinckernagel (11′), Brennan Johnson (30′, 36′) and Sam Surridge (82′). Blackpool got 18 shots with five on target and a goal by Callum Connolly (89′) scored for Blackpool.
Coventry City heads into this tie in the 11th spot with 56 points in the Championship standings. In their campaign this season they have picked up 15 wins against 13 losses and 11 draws. Coventry City has struggled playing against Nottingham Forest away from home and they haven’t won in the last five matches in the league. It’s possible to see a couple of goals here, with the last four games for Coventry City ending with two goals or more being scored.
Coventry City shared spoils 2-2 with Blackburn Rovers in their last Championship fixture. In that game, Coventry City had 52% possession, 11 shots with four of them on target and a goal scored by Viktor Gyökeres (99′). Blackburn Rovers got 10 shots with three of on target and goals by Harry Pickering (8′ Own goal), Bradley Dack (46′) and Scott Wharton (82′).
Nottingham Forest vs Coventry City head to head
Nottingham boasts a slight upper hand in the history of this fixture having won 13 times out of the 27 meetings since 1994. Coventry Claims eight wins while six matches ended all square.
- Coventry 2-1 Nottingham 08/08/21
- Coventry 1-2 Nottingham 02/02/21
- Nottingham 2-1 Coventry 04/11/20
- Nottingham 2-0 Coventry 18/02/12
- Coventry 1-0 Nottingham 15/10/11
Home
- Blackpool 1-4 Nottingham
- Nottingham 0-1 Liverpool
- Nottingham 3-1 QPR
- Nottingham 4-0 Reading
- Nottingham 2-1 Huddersfield
Away
- Coventry 2-2 Blackburn
- Derby Count y 1-1 Coventry
- Coventry 0-2 Hull
- Coventry 4-1 Sheffield
- Coventry 0-1 Luton
Nottingham Forest team news
Boss Steve Cooper come into this encounter with squad limited of Max Lowe and Steve Cook who have been ruled out through injuries.
Coventry City team news
Mark Robins has a fully fit squad ahead of this fixture
Prediction and odds
Coventry City has not done too well in recent weeks having one win in their last seven games and losing all of their last five trips to this stadium while Nottingham Forest is enjoying a good form recently winning four of their last five games and is unbeaten in their last eight league games; they won five of those games, including their last three games.
- Nottingham Forest Win
- Goals over 2.5
- Both teams to score
