Nottingham Forest will host Leicester City at the City Ground in the fourth round of the FA Cup on Sunday evening with kickoff at 19:00.
Nottingham Forest were in a brilliant form since the beginning of the year, until last weekend when they fell to a 2-1 defeat o Cardiff City in the Championship. Prior, to the defeat Forest were on a four-match winning run that saw them scalp Arsenal with 1-0 win the previous FA Cup round. Also the run had moved them to only three points within the playoff spots.
Therefore they will be looking to get back on track in the match while aiming at continuing their cup run in the process. A win will on Sunday will be a massive confidence boost ahead of a hectic playoff battle.
Meanwhile Leicester City have been a bit flaky this season with the club claiming 26 points from their 20 Premier League matches to sit in the middle of the table with 12 points off the Champions League places.
Their struggle for consistency continued last time out when they added a 1-1 draw against Brighton to their 3-2 defeat to Tottenham prior to the winter break and they have now won just two of their last six in all competitions.
However, Brendan Rodger’s side will take positives from their 4-1 victory against fellow Premier League outfits, Watford in the previous round of the FA Cup and will be hoping to build on that as they aim at making a good run in the competition to compensate their inconsistent Premier League campaign.
Nottingham vs Leicester head to head
Both sides have met in 26 encounters since 1993 with both claiming eight victories and shared the spoils in 10 encounters.
- Nottingham 2-2 Leicester 19/02/14
- Leicester 0-2 Nottingham 09/11/13
- Nottingham 2-3 Leicester 04/05/13
- Leicester 2-2 Nottingham 10/11/12
- Leicester 0-0 Nottingham 27/03/12
Home
- Cardiff 2-1 Nottingham
- Nottingham 3-0 Barnsley
- Nottingham 2-1 Derby County
- Millwall 0-1 Nottingham
- Nottingham 1-0 Arsenal
Away
- Leicester 1-1 Brighton
- Leicester 2-3 Tottenham
- Leicester 4-1 Watford
- Leicester 1-0 Liverpool
- Man City 6-3 Leicester
Nottingham team news
Notting ham will be without Loic Mbe Soh, Alex Mighten, Joe Lolley and Joe Worrall due to injuries.
Leicester team news
Leicester will be without Jonny Evans, Ricardo Pereira, Wesley Fofana, Ryan Bertrand, Timothy Castagne and Jamie Vardy due to injuries while Nampalys Mendy as he is still representing Senegal in AFCON.
Prediction and odds
- Draw at 90
- Leicester win
- Both sides to score
