Blackburn Rovers vs. Nottingham Forest Prediction, Tips & Odds – Dec. 21, 2022 20:45 CET
The Carabao Cup will continue with the 4th Round games on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.
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Blackburn Rovers Team News
Blackburn Rovers is one unbelievable team this season. Above all expectations, they are 3rd in Championship with 39 points and 13 wins after 23 games.
An unbelievable stat is that Blackburn has 10 defeats in the league, more than any team in the top 10 and more than some teams in the bottom half of the table. They play good or bad, there is no middle. They are without a draw since April.
Their results are hot and cold this season. Right now they are in the run of three wins and three defeats in the last six games. Firstly, they suffered a heavy defeat against Preston at home 1-4 and after that, they beat Norwich away 0-2. With Blackburn, you never know how they will play. They are an unpredictable team this season.
At Ewood Park, they have eight wins and only Burnley has won more points at home this season in the English second division. They failed to score in only one game at home this season. Their attack is barely in the top 10 with 26 goals scored and again this season Ben Brereton Diaz is the top scorer with nine goals.
Nottingham Forest Team News
This will be the first official game for Nottingham since the middle of November. Before the season stopped for the World Cup Nottingham had two consecutive wins against Tottenham and Crystal Palace and a draw against Brentford.
They moved to 18th place on the table with only one point less than the safe zone. Maybe this pause comes at a bad time for Forest because they are in the best form since August.
Nottingham had five players at the World Cup but most of them returned to training. They played four friendly games during the break and won only one of the in the last game against Valencia.
Nottingham started to look like a good team in recent weeks before the break. They kept four clean sheets in six games. It looks like Steve Cooper needed more time to find the right players and to implement his methods to all new players.
Nottingham is still terrible away from home where they have only one win this season and it was against Grimsby Town (the side from the fourth tier) in August. They are still without a win away from home in the Premier League and they scored only one goal.
H2H
They meet often been in Championship in recent years. In the last 10 games, both teams have had four wins each and two games were finished with a draw. Five games ended with over 2.5 goals and six with BTTS.
Team News and Injuries
Blackburn Rovers: Callum Brittain is injured.
Nottingham Forest: Cheikhou Kouyate, Moussa Niakhate, Omar Richards and Guilian Biancone are injured. Morgan Gibbs-White is questionable.
Blackburn Rovers vs. Nottingham Forest Prediction
This is a Carabao Cup game and both managers will rotate their squads. For Nottingham, this is the first official game after more than a month and Blackburn is in a competitive rhythm for two weeks now.
Blackburn is a very unpredictable team this season and we must see how Forest will cope with five weeks’ break because they got in a good run before the break.
We think that this game is good for a bet on goals.
Kick-off Time: Wednesday, 21.12.2022, 20:45 CET
Prediction: BTTS
Odds: 1.75
Sportsbook: Bet365
