Week 35 brings us a match on May 8th where Nottingham Forest hosts Southampton at The City Ground in a meeting of these two evenly matched Premier League teams. Weather on match day is looking like a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 11 degrees, which should make for a nice day for football. Nottingham Forest is fresh off their 1-2 loss against Brentford. Danilo dos Santos de Oliveira scored the first goal for Nottingham Forest in the %Minute minute of the %HalfNumber half’s stoppage time, then Ivan Toney tied it up for Brentford in the 82nd minute Finally they completed the comback in the 94th minute on a goal by Joshua Da Silva to cap off a wild match. They’re hoping to improve on their recent performance, having lost 7 of their last 10, while southampton sits at 20th place in the tables. In their last match they recorded a 1-3 loss against Newcastle United. Stuart Armstrong struck first for Southampton in the 41st minute, then Callum Wilson got the equalizer for Newcastle United in the 54th minute on a feed from Alexander Isak But fortunately they were able to complete the comaback victory in the 79th minute on a goal by Theo Walcott. Southampton looks to improve on their recent performance, having earned only 6 points in their last 10 matches.
On Jan 4th, Southampton hosted Nottingham Forest in their last match together. Nottingham Forest won by a score of 1 to 0. Taiwo Awoniyi struck first for Nottingham Forest in the 27th minute on a feed from Brennan Johnson, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Southampton couldn’t muster any offence and Nottingham Forest ran away with the shutout win.
Sékou Mara and Duje Ćaleta-Car are the top scorers for Southampton in the last five matches, but unfortunately they only have one goal.. Nottingham Forest is lucky enough to have a few offensive weapons, with Morgan Gibbs-White and Danilo dos Santos de Oliveira each having 2 goals in their last five
Steve Cooper’s Nottingham Forest squad will be without Scott Mckenna, Chris Wood, Moussa Niakhaté, Giulian Biancone, Serge Aurier, Cheikhou Kouyaté, Willy Boly, Ryan Yates, Dean Henderson, Omar Richards and Jack Colback, while Southampton will be without Valentino Livramento and Larios Lopez.