Nottingham Forest continue their surprise Premier League charge to a top-four finish against Everton.
Forest will stay third regardless of the result for another matchweek, whilst Everton can climb to 13th if win by two goals or more.
Team News
Alex Moreno could return for Forest after he was ineligible to feature in their 2-1 loss at Aston Villa last weekend.
Chris Wood (hip), Taiwo Awoniyi (hamstring) and Anthony Elanga (unspecified) are doubts but Ola Aina (calf) remains ruled out.
Everton could be without Vitaliy Mykolenko after he missed their 1-1 draw against Arsenal due to a thigh injury.
Jesper Lindstrom (groin), Dominic Calvert-Lewin (hamstring) and Orel Mangala (ACL) remain absent.
When is Kick-Off?
Forest host Everton at the City Ground on Saturday 12 April at 3pm BST, untelevised live in the UK.
Stat Attack
- Forest have won one of their last five meetings against Everton (W1, D2, L2).
- Everton have lost just two of their last six visits to Forest (W3, D1, L2).
- Everton have won two of their last four visits to Forest by 1-0 results.
- Forest have kept clean sheets in their last four home matches (W3, D1).
- Everton are winless in their last six league matches (D5, L1).
Prediction
Although they hold a steady gap to fourth-placed Chelsea and the chasing pack, Forest now can’t afford for their season to start imploding because they need to just regroup and produce a more solid display after a sloppy first-half performance away to Villa which left them too much to do in the second-half.
Everton meanwhile do know how to grind out draws and after they dug deep to hold Arsenal at home, I wouldn’t expect anything different here but if McNeil starts then they hopefully will get more of their attacking spark back and can find a win.
I however just don’t see Forest losing here if they just refocus and can produce their counter-attacking best but Everton won’t make this easy.
Prediction: Forest 2-1 Everton
