
Nottingham Forest need to rouse themselves for a final push in the race for a Champions League slot, starting with this tricky trip to Crystal Palace in an intriguing Premier League clash.
It has been an impressive season for Nuno Espirito Santo's side, who started the season as fourth favourites for the drop but could end it sitting inside the top four.
Forest also blazed a trail to the FA Cup semi-finals but their hopes of joining Palace in the Wembley showpiece ended with a 2-0 loss to Manchester City last Sunday as betting against BTTS paid off for me.
Santo's side then crashed to another 2-0 loss at home to Brentford on Thursday night and that has left them sitting sixth in the Premier League table with four games to go.
A final-day shootout with Chelsea could end up being decisive but this game is a potential banana skin with Palace looking to stay in form ahead of their date with destiny in the FA Cup final.
Their 3-0 win over Aston Villa at Wembley on Saturday, which brought up a full house of tips for our man Andy, showed how dangerous Oliver Glasner's side can be. Now the Eagles will be brimming with confidence as they bid to put a dent in Forest's Champions League hopes.
How the bookies view it: Eagles to keep soaring
This is a tricky one to call but BoyleSports make Crystal Palace their 13/10 favourites with home advantage. Nottingham Forest are 2/1 shots and the draw pays 9/4.
Recent head to head: Eight's great for Forest
Nottingham Forest have gone eight games unbeaten against Crystal Palace but five of those matches have ended in draws. Forest's 1-0 win at the City Ground earlier this season broke a run of three successive stalemates in this fixture and it has also ended level on their last three trips to Selhurst Park.
Players to watch: Sarr of the show
Ismaila Sarr scored a brilliant double at Wembley last weekend and that took the Palace forward's tally for the season to 11. He's 5/2 for another goal at BoyleSports and 13/8 at Paddy Power to either score or assist.
Morgan Gibbs-White is the creative force for Nottingham Forest and the midfielder looks good value at 9/5 with Paddy Power to score or assist.
Probable line-ups
Forest's squad is in great health, with Ola Aina making his comeback from injury against Brentford. Santo will probably freshen things up a bit with the quick turaround from Thursday night. Palace are set to be without Cheick Doucoure and Chadi Riad again.
Crystal Palace: Henderson, Guehi, Richards, Lacroix, Mitchell, Munoz, Wharton, Lerma, Sarr, Eze, Mateta.
Nottingham Forest: Sels, Murillo, Toffolo, Milenkovic, Williams, Anderson, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi, Dominguez, Elanga, Wood.
Anything else catch the eye?
Forest's games haven't been producing a lot of corners of late, with their last four all failing to hit double figures. That could make backing under 9.5 corners worth a punt here at 23/20 with Ladbrokes.
These teams are pretty evenly matched so it should be a close one, with the half-time draw looking good at 21/20 with BoyleSports.
Palace defender Chris Richards has been racking up the cards of late, with four yellows and a red in his last six outings. He returns from a league suspension here and looks a bit overpriced at 5/1 to go into the book again.
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