Premier League Prediction Thread 2023/2024

[Slow death]

Newcastle 1 - 3 Nottingham Forest

before this game started the value of the odds was unbelievable, Newcastle was at @1.44 while Nottingham Forest was at @4.00, it really seemed as if the bookmakers had convinced themselves that Newcastle would be able to come out of this game with victory, they were playing in home, and are in a much higher position in the table than Nottingham Forest, there was every reason for the bookmakers to look at Newcastle as favourites, but on the field it was a disaster that was seen coming from Newcastle. They conceded 3 goals and lost, the most unbelievable thing about this result is that Newcastle scored the first goal in the 23rd minute, thanks to a penalty, it seemed like it would be a very easy victory for Newcastle.

until just when the 1 half was about to end, Nottingham Forest scored a goal and the game was tied, so the 1 half ended in a draw. in the second 2 half Nottinghahom Forest simply shone, they played so well that it seemed like they were the hosts, without a doubt it was a good start from the new coach who broke the curse that Nottingham Forest had of not winning games, after After a long series of defeats, Nottingham Forest finally managed to obtain a victory. while Newcastle has 2 consecutive defeats and in the last 5 games they only managed to have 1 victory, which is not good at all

It seems to me that Newcastle's mistake was not investing a lot of money in a good squad made up of famous players, they have little chance this season, I would even risk saying that it will be an impossible mission for them to manage to finish in a position that gives them access to European Champions League this season. arsenal, liverpool, manchester city will get a place in the european champions league, which would mean that the fight will be for a place and there are tottenham and aston villa which in my opinion one of these teams will take the place

[knowngunman]

Newcastle vs Forest is being played and this game seems to be the most interesting one at the moment. Both the teams finished the first half with outstanding performances which led to the game still tied at 1-1. Newcastle are currently not in great form in the Premier League which is why they are still reeling in power with a normal team like Forest. Newcastle are not playing very well at home today and it is hard to say whether they will be able to beat the opposition. But if they can perform well in the second half of the game, maybe Newcastle can win at home. Both teams are attacking well and this is an interesting game, if today's match ends in a draw then surely Newcastle will lose their points. As the team is still in a good position in the Premier League, if they can win today's match, they will have a chance to go to the top places later.

The game has taken a total change and the opposition team are taken the lead with two goals difference. Newcastle performance in the first half was not that bad and Nottingham Forest were also doing well in the first half that was why they were able to hold Newcastle United to a draw in the first half of the game.

Despite the ball possessions being owned and controlled by Newcastle United, Nottingham Forest made use of their advantages well to take the early lead in the second half of the game. Todays match will be a set back for Newcastle United after losing three points to Nottingham Forest on the table. It is a sad Boxing Day for them to contain.

Newcastle have not been in a good form lately and are struggling at the moment and this has cost them alot lately, they lost out of the Carabao cup against Chelsea despite taking the leàd in that game, yet again today they took an early lead and later conceded a goal before the end of the first half, it just seem as if something is missing in this Newcastle side and Eddie Howe has to put his team together so as not loose the confidence of the fans and also get back to winning ways as soon as possible so they can try and secure a place in European football next season just like they did last season.

The wheels have definitely come off at Newcastle United lately. They were very poor again today short of ideas, confidence and a total abysmal defense. Seems Wood certainly came back to haunt them. It's absolutely not good enough from Newcastle honestly and they can't keep blaming fatigue and injuries all the time. A team should be able to win games with the players they put out. I just hope they buck their ideas up for the new year. By the way, football is indeed beautiful and normally EPL result on boxing days has always been a wow and it is a knockout blow from Wood on a boxing day as he hit hatrick.

[bering]

Liverpool was gets dissapoint result from Arsenal last week and today they will attempts to return to the winning ways and they will fight against Burnley today and compared between these teams obviously Liverpool far better to Burnley because Liverpool at second place and Burnley at relegation zone and from 12 meetings total between them Liverpool can gets 9 wins and 2 draw so Liverpool will gets easy match today and beat Burnley shouldn't be a big problem for Liverpool

Actually Liverpool condition is not really good because they lost Andrew Robertson and Konstantinos Tsimikas who got injured and both them is a left back so Liverpool this time don't have the player on that position and Klopp maybe will attempts to solved this problem with played Joe Gomez as left back but sometimes Joe Gomez was performing poorly so played this player actually a bit risky but unfortunately Klopp doesn't have many option to play a player in this position but Liverpool has strong mentally although they were playing with their current squad but Liverpool can able to managed their consistency however Liverpool win has odds @1.39 this is low odds but i think this is safe bet

[Chilwell]

Luton Town is leading against Sheffield United with a 0-1 scoreline in 33  minutes of play. Luton Town will want to win against Sheffield United and hope to win their outstanding match against Bournemouth to have a chance of surviving the relegation zone.

Nothing can be said now since the match is still on going, Luton Town are leading throughout the first half while Sheffield United are dominating the ball possession with 51%, they have equal chances created but Sheffield United had two big chances, the both team are very hot now because they are both struggling to get out of relegation zone, Luton Town have the chance of getting out only if they can win this match and equally win their outstanding match against Bournemouth then they stand a chance to make it out.

[borovichok]

The wheels have definitely come off at Newcastle United lately. They were very poor again today short of ideas, confidence and a total abysmal defense. Seems Wood certainly came back to haunt them. It's absolutely not good enough from Newcastle honestly and they can't keep blaming fatigue and injuries all the time. A team should be able to win games with the players they put out. I just hope they buck their ideas up for the new year. By the way, football is indeed beautiful and normally EPL result on boxing days has always been a wow and it is a knockout blow from Wood on a boxing day as he hit hatrick.

Wood is the outstanding MOTM against Newcastle, he single-handedly scored an hattrick and served as a main fierce threat for Newcastle throughout the whole game. I would say it was never an easy run for Nottingham Forest but they were able to conquer till the very last minute. Nottingham Forest was not afraid of the Magpies as they calmed the whole pressure at St James Park today. The home team were relentless after been the side to hit the net first, Isak took the deservable penalty and Newcastle led 1 nil and couldn't hold on much longer after the visitors pressured and nets an equalizing goal to make the scores 1-1. The second half belong to Nottingham Forest because they were too desperate for goals and the ended up netting quite significant goals to them infront.

[ampere]

Luton Town is leading against Sheffield United with a 0-1 scoreline in 33  minutes of play. Luton Town will want to win against Sheffield United and hope to win their outstanding match against Bournemouth to have a chance of surviving the relegation zone.

The tie is now 1-1 as both teams continue to chase for the winner.
The boxing day fixture starting well; with Nottingham Forest thrasing Newcastle United away from home, while Fulham poor form continues away at Bournemouth

Excellent boxing day fixtures. Final match of the day is Aston Villa vs sleeping devil (Manchester United). Lets have it

[JeffBrad12]

Luton Town is leading against Sheffield United with a 0-1 scoreline in 33  minutes of play. Luton Town will want to win against Sheffield United and hope to win their outstanding match against Bournemouth to have a chance of surviving the relegation zone.

1-1 as for now, oli mcburnie has been helping luton to equalize the score. It seems like that luton will be winning this game and i have been observing about how luton played offensively against its opponent. It was surprising me to see how luton was able to playing like this.
When comparing the quality of the squad, it is evident that Sheffield has a higher level than Luton. However, the result of the match became unpredictable when Luton managed to score the first goal against Sheffield. It reminds me when luton destroy newcastle with huge scores.
The chance to survive from the relegation zone is still there as long as luton will able to gather three points from this match. Im not underrating it but sheffield played so badly in this game. It has less goal attempts compared to the luton
It appears to me that there are approximately 20 minutes left before additional time and it seems that if Luton manages to win the game against Sheffield, the outcome may change. Sheffield looks like very poor in front of luton.
Luton has been growing and show significant improvement happened to the club.

[Furious 7]

I think any football fan would want that, it can be compared to Leicester's fairytale in the 15-16 season, it was phenomenal. Aston Vila went out of the league that season finishing in last place by the way. If they pull off a miracle like that I'll be delighted for them.

Even though such a fairy tale is very beautiful if it is repeated again but in the end it is still very difficult to happen because after all for things like what happened to Leicester a few seasons ago, apart from the cohesiveness and consistency that is intertwined things like this must also be accompanied by luck for a club and I still feel that Aston Villla will still be very difficult to do that.
Not without real reason in this case because after all, of course we know that with the current situation for several big clubs, such a dream for Aston Villa will be very difficult to happen.
Currently Manchester City despite having problems in the last few matches but still they will still be very troublesome and become the first strong candidate to become champions. In addition, now there are Liverpool and Arsenal who will again enliven the competition after last season it can be said that Liverpool failed for that but now it is a differentiator so it will be very difficult to feel the beautiful fairy tale of Leicester repeating itself.

I think this club has a lot of luck, as they are one step away from the top spot, and they have been quite strong this season. I wonder how it will all end, if they will even get into the European Cup if they suddenly start losing or where they will be at the end of the season, because there is no faith in their victory so far

By looking at Emery's coaching record, they could have competed in the Champions League competition or at least in the Europa League for the end of the season because we know that Emery is a specialist coach who can always take his club in a better direction and not even imagined before because before Aston Villa, a few seasons ago he also managed to bring Villarreal even to the Champions League semi-finals which was never imagined before considering that at that time Villarreal met Bayern in the quarter-finals.

Now Aston Villa's chance is certainly very large, it just depends on the performance also in the end because we know that the EPL until now is known for its competition and when they slack off it could be a problem for Aston Villa in the end.
This week they will be faced with a big match because the opponent is Manchester United although indeed until now Manchester United still has problems in terms of performance but of course this could be interesting because Manchester United is also not an easy opponent to beat.

[FinePoine0]

I think the large number of players who were injured made Newcastle perform less than optimally, a total of eight players suffered injuries and some received sanctions. Going into the second half of the season, I am sure Newcastle will recover, as their key player in Eddie Howe lineup returns.

The bad results that befell Newcastle today will certainly make their ranking not good in the EPL, therefore Newcastle need additional players to replace several of their key players who were injured, there is no way they will continue to survive in a situation like this playing with a second layer that does not provide good results and of course it will make Newcastle's ranking even worse if they continue to let bad results continue.

The hurricane of injuries is always a frightening specter for a club and this time it was felt by Newcastle who had to accept defeat from guests who actually on paper they could win. They could take the lead, but before the end of the first half Nottingham Forrest could equalize while restoring their confidence to play the rest of the match in the second half.
In the second half all the things Newcastle didn't want happened, not even 10 minutes of the game, they had to concede and put them behind. instead of being able to equalize, they had to concede again 7 minutes later, precisely in the 60th minute and put them behind by a difference of 2 goals. No matter how hard they tried to create a goal but they couldn't do it until the end of the match.

Newcastle played badly tonight. Even though they were leading 1-0, but after that they lost control of the game and seemed to be having difficulty holding back the Nottingham Forest's attack. It was clear that Newcastle's defense was very vulnerable, and I thought they were lucky to only concede 3 goals. Meanwhile, Nottingham Forest played very impressively. They actually had lots of good opportunities, it's just that all they could maximize were only 3 opportunities.

I never imagined Newcastle United would perform so badly. How the team at the top of the points table lost 1-3, Newcastle United could not succeed despite attacking more. Despite their far superior performances this season in terms of total number of attacks throughout the game, Newcastle United had 19 shots at the goal post and Nottingham Forest had 15. But the Nottingham Forest attack was the most difficult as they were able to score on the counter attack.

[Zanab247]

I guess Newcastle coach need to act fast to stop this shame from the team because it was very clear that Newcastle will going to use home advantage to take victory from Nottingham forest in this game that just ended but what people saw in the second half make people to shock. The game ended 1:1 in the first half hopping that Newcastle will do more to win the game in the remaining 45 minutes but Nottingham forest re-organized themselves in the second half by started changing the game for them to added another 2 goals to win the game 1:3 to escape relegation.

What happened in this game Newcastle vs Nottingham forest will surely happen in the Burnley home today to change the game for Liverpool to take the victory from Liverpool because, I know many people will focus on Liverpool in this game but based on the Burnley arrangements in this game show that the 2 teams will secure goals from this game but Burnley will beat Liverpool 3:2 to move to another level.

[RockBell]

Newcastle vs Forest is being played and this game seems to be the most interesting one at the moment. Both the teams finished the first half with outstanding performances which led to the game still tied at 1-1. Newcastle are currently not in great form in the Premier League which is why they are still reeling in power with a normal team like Forest. Newcastle are not playing very well at home today and it is hard to say whether they will be able to beat the opposition. But if they can perform well in the second half of the game, maybe Newcastle can win at home. Both teams are attacking well and this is an interesting game, if today's match ends in a draw then surely Newcastle will lose their points. As the team is still in a good position in the Premier League, if they can win today's match, they will have a chance to go to the top places later.

Newcarle was the first to score. I know they will start jubilating thinking they will win the game and it is very possible because Newcastle are good and it takes wisdom and strategy to win them don't just underestimate them even in this match they will have full confidence of smoking forest and in the end they were the one who got smoked and it was a good effort coming from forest because they were the last person I expected them to win and during the extra time they equalized. And second half was when the remaining two goals came in c. Wood scored an hat trick. And luck was not on the side of Newcastle today better luck and when their are wins like this is a bost in their moral.

[QueenVera]

Let's just assume that Manchester United loses this game as well because I don't see anything that will help them win. Keep in mind that Aston Villa is a formidable opponent for Manchester United this season. We should also keep in mind that Aston Villa has defeated Manchester City, Arsenal, and Chelsea in their previous games. Given how poorly Manchester United has performed this season, why should we think that Manchester United can defeat Aston Villa? It is highly likely that Manchester United will lose this game as well because many inferior teams to Aston Villa have already defeated the Red Devils.

Regarding Rashford, I believe he should start this game on the bench because, as a self-centered player, he doesn't think while he is playing the ball. I also believe that the coach and Rashford are working together on something because, in the absence of that, the coach won't use Rashford, even when he performs poorly. If Manchester United loses this match once more and the team does not take any action with the coach, to be honest, Manchester United will never advance because Ten Hang can never assemble a team like Manchester United.

Tonight's game between United and Villa at the Old Trafford is one that raises a lot of eye brows. Currently Villa are formidable in their games, they're at the top of United on the league table, they've had impressive performances this season and for United, they're seriously lagging behind, no one knows if they really do stand a chance against Villa. If you've observed you'll see, Villa had been more consistent in their games this season and for United they've had rough movements back and forth the league table.

 They lost their last game to West Ham, although away from home so I want to believe that they may be able to make a turn around impact and get the 3pounts in the game today since for Villa, they've had unending wins in their home ground and today they'll be playing away from home. I'm really quite convinced that it definitely won't be easy for United, even if Villa makes it easy for them, the defected team coordination of the Red side will come into play and the players would just turn out to be less productive. They should bear in mind that Villa is a side that doesn't trade any slight chance or opportunity they get to run ahead in a counter and produce a goal for themselves. Let's see how United will keep up with today's game. Hopefully, they won'tet themselves down in their home ground.

[Jatiluhung]

Liverpool was gets dissapoint result from Arsenal last week and today they will attempts to return to the winning ways and they will fight against Burnley today and compared between these teams obviously Liverpool far better to Burnley because Liverpool at second place and Burnley at relegation zone and from 12 meetings total between them Liverpool can gets 9 wins and 2 draw so Liverpool will gets easy match today and beat Burnley shouldn't be a big problem for Liverpool

Actually Liverpool condition is not really good because they lost Andrew Robertson and Konstantinos Tsimikas who got injured and both them is a left back so Liverpool this time don't have the player on that position and Klopp maybe will attempts to solved this problem with played Joe Gomez as left back but sometimes Joe Gomez was performing poorly so played this player actually a bit risky but unfortunately Klopp doesn't have many option to play a player in this position but Liverpool has strong mentally although they were playing with their current squad but Liverpool can able to managed their consistency however Liverpool win has odds @1.39 this is low odds but i think this is safe bet

Burnley only has home advantage and nothing more. Because in terms of squad depth and performance, it is clear that Liverpool is far superior. Even if Liverpool don't play with a perfect core of players then I will still be confident that Liverpool will still win the match.

Liverpool's previous match against Arsenal was very impressive. And the results obtained were also quite appropriate for both teams. Considering both of them played well. But if Liverpool can't beat Burnley in this match. Then that is the worst thing for Liverpool. Because beating a team that is in the relegation zone shouldn't be a big problem for a team as strong as Liverpool.

[BABY SHOES]

Nottingham are playing as well as Newcastle... If not for the penalty, Newcastle would have lost in the first half... In general it is an interesting match, a lot of shots, a lot of corners, both clubs scored... By the way, I did not expect Nottingham to score in this game...

By getting a penalty does not go smoothly as expected at home, I myself did not expect that Newcastle had to lose this badly as the beginning of Newcastle's chaos which has begun to decline in performance while for Nottingham Forest as an underdog team always gives unexpected things and indeed small EPL teams are always difficult to guess so this is the surprise.
We know that the weak teams in the English league are still unpredictable, what I do is bet on Newcastle which is believed to win, but this is a little risk taken because Nottingham Forest will lose so I call this unexpected.

[uchegod-21]

Luton Town is leading against Sheffield United with a 0-1 scoreline in 33  minutes of play. Luton Town will want to win against Sheffield United and hope to win their outstanding match against Bournemouth to have a chance of surviving the relegation zone.

The tie is now 1-1 as both teams continue to chase for the winner.
The boxing day fixture starting well; with Nottingham Forest thrasing Newcastle United away from home, while Fulham poor form continues away at Bournemouth

Excellent boxing day fixtures. Final match of the day is Aston Villa vs sleeping devil (Manchester United). Lets have it

From the bottom of the English Premier League table it is somehow difficult to understand what is happening in that zone. Recently Sheffield United has been doing fairly well and with the result of win and draw they have been having recently I think they should be able to escape the relegation zone but surprisingly they are still at the number 19th in the English Premier League table and they have played one match above their counterparts in that region.

Fulham is another club that I do not know how to describe them. Although I do not follow up their matches but I have known when they were winning clubs with high margins of goals but their last two matches were losses and today they are also losing to Bournemouth. I am really sure something is not good at the bottom part of the English Premier League this season. There will be a lot of interesting activities in the coming weeks from this clubs that are in the relegation zone.

[topbitcoin]

This week they will be faced with a big match because the opponent is Manchester United although indeed until now Manchester United still has problems in terms of performance but of course this could be interesting because Manchester United is also not an easy opponent to beat.

Looking at the current odds, I am actually quite hesitant if I want to bet on one of the current clubs even though the odds are quite promising.
Manchester United's erratic situation, especially in terms of scoring goals, makes me uncertain about Manchester United but on the other hand they also don't want to lose the match at Old Trafford, of course, which makes this even more difficult to predict even though their performance has not been too good until now.
On the other hand, Aston Villa could have surprised at Old Trafford but with the situation and the draw they had in the previous week even though they were the favorites at that time made me also dare not be too high to speculate on Aston Villa in this match.
I will probably skip the betting for this match but I will watch because I think this is one of the matches that is quite interesting to watch.

[Adams0001]

That soft penalty couldn't rescue Newcastle. They seemed to struggle to figure out the situation. Nottingham Forest showed more precision than Newcastle in today's match. Kudos to Nottingham Forest for securing their first win under Nuno. They truly earned the three points against Newcastle United. It seems like Newcastle's challenges will persist, just register six defeats in their last seven games across all competitions.

With the way the match ended I never expected it, on the contrary I was thinking that Newcastle United will surely win Nottingham Forest because there performance was very impressive especially during the early time of the season but however I don't know why Newcastle United has completely lose form all of a sudden because there was a time in this season when Newcastle United had face a challenging matches and come out victorious but there sudden poor performance is what I really don't understand I could remember there match against PSG and they were able to hold PSG on a draw and they also played against Chelsea and they were able to win them so I wonder were there poor performance is coming from because if it was on those early time of the season Nottingham Forest would not have win them.

Exactly I wasn't expecting Nottingham Forest to beat Newcastle at home since Newcastle has been playing well this season and I feel they will beat Nottingham Forest at St James' Park if they can break through their defense. Nottingham Forest perform very well and deserve to win the game, what a fantastic comeback! I believe that their new coach will benefit them greatly because he has begun to show his abilities against Newcastle and their next match is against Manchester United, which I believe will be a competitive game because Manchester United is not in good form and will most likely lose against Nottingham, because the way I see them playing against Newcastle they will defeat Manchester United, and the manager is optimistic, is performing well and am very sure he won't go to the relegation zoom.

Manchester United and Aston Villa are playing tonight, who do you think will win? Because Manchester United are playing at home they can win or draw the game, because anyone has advantage at home and he can likely favor them and draw against Aston Villa, but if they are talking about quality players and performance, I believe Aston Villa have the opportunity to defeat them and I believe anything can happen, because I know Aston Villa will not like to lose against Manchester United because they want to be at the top of the league table before Arsenal plays West Ham.

[red4slash]

Luton Town is leading against Sheffield United with a 0-1 scoreline in 33  minutes of play. Luton Town will want to win against Sheffield United and hope to win their outstanding match against Bournemouth to have a chance of surviving the relegation zone.

The tie is now 1-1 as both teams continue to chase for the winner.
The boxing day fixture starting well; with Nottingham Forest thrasing Newcastle United away from home, while Fulham poor form continues away at Bournemouth

Excellent boxing day fixtures. Final match of the day is Aston Villa vs sleeping devil (Manchester United). Lets have it

The match between Luton and Sheffield is quite interesting because they do not want to lose points in this match especially since their strength is equal so they will try everything to get points because even 1 point is very valuable for them especially since both clubs are currently still not too safe because they are in the relegation zone and I think it is likely that this 1 point can still happen.
Currently the time has entered the crucial time where both clubs must be tired and slowly losing concentration so they will try to find 1 point rather than having to miss a goal in this crucial minute.The 2-2 scoreline is very good and I like the way the game turned out today.

I just want to see Manchester United later because I wonder what Ten Hag will do after the series of defeats that always befall them especially this is old trafford so it will be very painful if they have to lose again in this match.

[zaim7413]

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Newcarle was the first to score. I know they will start jubilating thinking they will win the game and it is very possible because Newcastle are good and it takes wisdom and strategy to win them don't just underestimate them even in this match they will have full confidence of smoking forest and in the end they were the one who got smoked and it was a good effort coming from forest because they were the last person I expected them to win and during the extra time they equalized. And second half was when the remaining two goals came in c. Wood scored an hat trick. And luck was not on the side of Newcastle today better luck and when their are wins like this is a bost in their moral.

The joy that Newcastle felt after successfully scoring a goal from the penalty spot was the beginning of their defeat in front of their supporters. Nottingham Forest immediately responded to the goal by increasing their attack power which made Newcastle unable to withstand the pressure. Three goals were answered perfectly, the comeback made by Nottingham meant that Newcastle had to end the match with a defeat.

Chris Wood was the hero of Nottingham Forest's victory. The hat trick he scored made Newcastle fail to improve its position in the standings. Newcastle is in danger of dropping to 9th place if Manchester United and Brighton are able to win the match in the 19th game. This position is certainly not ideal for Newcastle, which managed to finish in the top four last season.

[laurenB7742]

Newcastle united Vs Nottingham Forest

Today Newcastle United vs Nottingham Forest will be played between the two teams. Here I think the players of Newcastle United team are very experienced, this season Newcastle United has performed very well. The performance of Nottingham Forest team is very weak, if I say compared to the two teams, Newcastle united team is stronger because looking at the points table, Newcastle united team is at 7th place. And Nottingham Forest team is 17th in the points table. That's why I'll bet on Newcastle United.

Nottingham Forest team is quite weak. Nottingham Forest are now in 17th place in the table. Newcastle team is favorite in this match and they have more chances to win. However, the Newcastle team must play carefully. There is no way to underestimate any team in the Premier League. Nottingham Forest's performance was poor, but the team won 2-0 against Aston Villa. So. If Newcastle make any mistakes in today's match, they are likely to lose points. In today's home match, Newcastle's players will try to dominate from the start of the match. Playing attacking strategy from the beginning of the match will make it easier for them to win the match.

Now it's 1-1 initially betting on Newcastle is a safe choice and very supportive in every way. Nottingham is very unstable and is still far from comparing the depth of its squad when faced with Newcastle. But sometimes we are a little surprised that they were able to equalize in the final minutes of the first half so Newcastle should not underestimate the visiting team when the opponent is able to reverse the situation maybe Newcastle can be prevented from moving freely. Came to St James Park Headquarters with high motivation not to disappoint his fans.

In the second half I hope that Nottingham can surprise us again and show that they are worthy of winning 3 points from the top teams.

Finally my permissions are ok. Newcastle team lost points in this match. Newcastle's defenders made several mistakes in this match. And because of this mistake they were defeated. Nottingham Forest's player was the only player to win 3-1. While the match was tied at 1-1 in the first half, we saw the dominance of Nottingham Forest in the second half. Although Newcastle's players launched many attacks, Nottingham Forest's defenders and goalkeeper were able to successfully parry every attack. A win in this match would see Newcastle team move up to sixth place in the points table.