On Saturday Apr 9th, Nottingham Forest hosts Birmingham City in a Championship match. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 6 degrees, so hopefuly the match makes up for the weather. Nottingham Forest sits at 8th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 4-1 win against Blackpool. Philip Zinckernagel struck first for Nottingham Forest in the 11th minute on a feed from Brennan Johnson, then Brennan Johnson added another in the 30th minute. With 21 points in their last 10 matches Nottingham Forest should be reasonably happy with their performance, while 18th placed Birmingham City is fresh off their 1-0 shutout win against West Bromwich Albion. Lyle Taylor struck first for Birmingham City in the 67th minute from the penalty spot, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster At the end of 90 a dissapointed West Bromwich Albion couldn’t manage to score, and Birmingham City took the shutout win. Birmingham City is looking for direction having 3 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
On Saturday Oct 2nd, Birmingham City hosted Nottingham Forest in their last match together. Nottingham Forest took the match by a score of 3 to 0. Lewis Grabban struck first for Nottingham Forest in the 11th minute, then Ryan Yates added another in the 30th minute on a feed from Philip Zinckernagel In the end, Birmingham City couldn’t muster any offence and Nottingham Forest ran away with the shutout win.
Birmingham City is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Nico Gordon and Tahith Chong each only have 1 goal in their last five. Both Ryan Yates and Sam Surridge have been the hottest scorers for Nottingham Forest in the last five each having scored 3 goals each.