Nottingham Forest and Sunderland will square off at the City Ground in the Premier League on Saturday evening.
Ange Postecoglou picked up his first point as Nottingham Forest boss with a 1-1 draw away at Burnley last weekend.
The Tricky Trees have since got their Europa League campaign underway, playing out an entertaining 2-2 draw away at Real Betis on Wednesday night.
Forest will now turn their attention back to the Premier League as they look to secure a first success since the opening weekend of the season.
As for Sunderland, they continued their impressive start to life back in the top-flight by coming from behind to claim a 1-1 draw at home to Aston Villa last weekend, despite being reduced to 10-men in the first-half.
That stalemate extended the Black Cats’ unbeaten run in the Premier League to three matches, so they should come into this clash in high spirits.
How the bookies view it: Forest set for three points
Despite winning just one of their opening five Premier League matches of the season, Nottingham Forest are short-priced 3/4 favourites on Boylesports.
Each of Sunderland’s last two Premier League matches have ended all square and another draw here can be backed at 5/2 on Boylesports while an away win is trading at 7/2 with the same firm.
Head to head: History against the hosts
Sunderland have taken top honours from five of their last six meetings with Nottingham Forest, emerging victorious from each of their previous three visits to the City Ground. However, it is difficult to read too much into the head-to-head record given that the pair have not crossed paths since way back in 2017.
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Morgan Gibbs-White has hit the target in two of his last three outings in the Premier League, making the Nottingham Forest ace an attractive option to work the Sunderland goalkeeper at least once here at 4/5 on BetVictor.
I successfully backed Sunderland’s Granit Xhaka to pick up a card last weekend and I’m more than happy to support the same selection on Saturday evening at 11/5 on Boylesports.
Predicted line-ups
Nottingham Forest will be unable to call upon the services of injured defender Ola Aina, however Omari Hutchinson should come back into the squad after being ineligible in midweek.
Reinildo Mandava will miss out for Sunderland after being sent off during last week’s 1-1 draw with Aston Villa, so Arthur Masuaku is likely to deputise at left-back.
Nottingham Forest: Sels; Williams, Milenkovic, Murillo, Morato; Luiz, Anderson; Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi; Wood
Sunderland: Roefs; Hume, Ballard, Alderete, Masuaku; Rigg, Xhaka, Sadiki; Talbi, Isidor, Adingra
Anything else catch the eye?
Backing both teams to get on the scoresheet looks well worthy of support at 4/5 on Boylesports.
There have been goals at both ends in each of Nottingham Forest's previous three matches across all competitions.
What's more, the same bet would have also been a winning one in two of Sunderland's last three Premier League matches.
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