Brentford vs Nottingham Forest Prediction

Form in the league this season

Brentford have won two and drawn three of their last five league matches, scoring ten goals in that spell while conceding just four. That's a tidy return for a side many wouldn't have tipped for the top half this early in the season.

Brentford: 20 completed matches; Nottingham Forest: 20 completed matches.

Brentford

20 matches

Win

35% 7 / 20

Draw

55% 11 / 20

Loss

10% 2 / 20

Scored

44

Conceded

24

Difference

+20

Nottingham Forest

20 matches

Win

30% 6 / 20

Draw

25% 5 / 20

Loss

45% 9 / 20

Scored

22

Conceded

28

Difference

-6

Forest's last five have been messier: a win away at Aston Villa sits alongside home defeats to Leeds and Coventry, plus draws with Tottenham and at Liverpool. Four goals scored and five conceded in that run tells its own story.

Brentford's recent form has been far steadier, though Forest's win at Villa shows they can still cause problems on the road.

Comparative Team Statistics: Brentford vs Nottingham Forest

Head-to-head history

The last four meetings between these two have gone back and forth. Brentford won 2-0 when they met in January, but Forest had won 3-1 the previous August and also beaten Brentford 2-0 away before that.

Further back the fixture list stretches into their Championship years together, which doesn't tell us much about where either side stands now.

Current standings

Brentford sit fourth with nine points from five games, while Forest are down in thirteenth with five points from the same number of matches. It's only a five-game snapshot, but the gap between them is already clear.

Brentford's position lines up with their form, and the same goes for Forest in the other direction.

Players to watch

Kevin Schade has been Brentford's main source of goals, with three in his last five appearances. For Forest, Morgan Gibbs-White has supplied two assists in the same span, still doing most of the creative work.

Brentford:

Best scorers:

K. Schade - 3

Penalty cards:

V. Janelt x 3

M. Sangaré x 2

Thiago x 2

Nottingham Forest:

Best assist providers:

M. Gibbs-White - 2

Penalty cards:

J. McAtee x 2

A few players on both sides have picked up yellow cards recently too, Brentford's Vitaly Janelt and Mikkel Sangaré among them, along with Forest's James McAtee.

How this one could play out

Brentford's recent matches have brought goals at both ends, and they look capable of matching anything Forest create going forward. Forest, though, have been leaky at the back, conceding in four of their last five league games.

With Brentford fourth and playing with confidence, and Forest still hunting consistency, this has the look of a game where the home side should get the better of the chances, even if Forest's away form offers them some hope.