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Preview & Prediction : Nottingham Forest vs Sheffield United

On the 18th August 2023, a thrilling Premier League face-off is set to occur between Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United. At the City Ground, Nottingham Forest will begin their home Premier League season on Friday. After losing to Arsenal on the season’s opening day at the Emirates on Saturday, Steve Cooper’s team will play Sheffield United in an effort to earn their first points of the year.

The most recent encounter between these teams concluded with Nottingham Forest taking a narrow victory of 2-1 over Sheffield United. Looking back at 15 meetings over the past few seasons, Nottingham Forest victoriously emerged from 4 matches, slightly trailing Sheffield United who claimed 5 victories, with the remaining 6 matches ending in a stalemate. Currently, Nottingham Forest boasts a solid home record, while Sheffield United has been faring well on the road. An average goal count of 1.8 goals from previous matches suggests a possibility of a low scoring game this time around, but with 53% of their matches seeing both sides score, it’s not a foregone conclusion. Coming into the season, Nottingham Forest averages 2 points per game in home fixtures, while Sheffield United averages less with a score of 0.75 points per game in their away fixtures.

Key Insights:

– The match between Nottingham Forest FC and Sheffield United FC is quite evenly matched, with Sheffield slightly edging past with 5 wins to Nottingham’s 4 in their past 15 encounters.
– A notable portion of their past encounters – 6 out of 15 – have ended in a draw, suggesting a closely fought competition between the two.
– Nottingham Forest FC maintains a solid home performance, which could provide them an edge in the forthcoming match.
– Sheffield United FC, despite being the away team, has demonstrated good form in away matches, indicating a challenging contest.
– Previous encounters between the two teams have seen an average of 1.8 goals per match, depicting quite an aggressively paced match.
– “Both Teams To Score” (BTTS) has occurred 53% of the time in their past matches, again highlighting the competitiveness of the match-up.
– As per current Premier League season trends, Nottingham Forest has averaged 2 Points Per Game in home matches, which is a significant advantage.
– Sheffield United, on the other hand, has averaged relatively lower at 0.75 Points Per Game in their away matches. This situates Nottingham Forest in a favourable position for the upcoming match.

Match Facts: 

– When Nottingham Forest hosts Sheffield United, the most frequent outcome has been a 1-1 draw, a scoreline recorded in 5 encounters.
– Overall, 1-1 is also the most usual result with 7 matches concluding in such manner between Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United.
– In recent history, considering the latest 16 home matches of Nottingham Forest against Sheffield United, Forest emerged victorious 7 times, the game ended in a draw 6 times and Sheffield won thrice. Nottingham leads the goal tally with 21 goals against Sheffield’s 13.
– Over 33 meetings in total, both Nottingham Forest and Sheffield United have claimed victory in 10 matches each, leaving 13 matches drawn. The goal difference favours Nottingham with 35 goals versus Sheffield’s 32.
– Presently, Nottingham Forest is hit by a 5-game winless streak.
– Moreover, Nottingham Forest has failed to find the back of the net in their last 4 fixtures.
– Historically, Nottingham Forest has the upper hand in the first half 29% of the time, while Sheffield United leads at half-time in 30% of encounters.
– The last face-off between the two was taken by Sheffield United.
– Interestingly, Sheffield United managed to win the previous game with a margin of zero goals.
– When Nottingham Forest gains a 1-0 upper hand at home, they turn it into a win in 53% cases.
– Conversely, Sheffield United triumphs in a commendable 93% matches when they snatch a 0-1 lead on the road.
– When Nottingham Forest falls 0-1 background at home, they revive to win only 11% of the matches.
– In a similar situation, if Sheffield United trails 1-0 away, they pull off a win in barely 9% of the games.
– Currently, Nottingham Forest is riding a dry spell with no goals scored in four consecutive matches.
– Sheffield United has had the upper hand in recent times, losing just once against Nottingham Forest over their last 5 battles across all competitions.
– From the last five head-to-head clashes, Nottingham Forest has bagged a win once, Sheffield Unitied took the honours twice, and the teams shared the points on two occasions.
– On average, Nottingham Forest manages to net a goal against Sheffield United, who typically respond with approximately 1.4 goals of their own.
– The general average of goals per matchup between these two is 2.4.
– The typical number of goals scored in the first half of their encounters is 0.4.
– During their most recent match, both teams failed to score.
– When at home, Nottingham Forest averages 1.25 goals per game while Sheffield United nets an average of 1.21 goals in away fixtures.
– As of their last 5 performances, Sheffield United has performed better than Nottingham Forest.
– Both teams suffered defeat in their previous match.
– Sheffield United has been leaky at the back, conceding at least once in their last 5 games.
– Sheffield United currently has a run of two matches without finding the net.
– Both clubs are winless in their latest Premier League matches.

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