Tournament – FA Cup;
Stage – Play Offs – 1/16-Finals;
Date – 07/02/2024;
Kick-Off – 20:45 GMT;
Venue – City Ground (Nottingham).
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A Premier league vs Championship tie this one, we will stick with the Premier league side on this one, as a result of the head to head records of the two sides, Nottingham Forest having progressed from all four FA Cup ties against Bristol City, most recently in the fifth round in 1991-92. It has to be said that it won’t be easy though, seeing as Bristol City already knocked out a Premier league side (West Ham) in the previous round, but we believe this will be one Premier league side too many, plus they already blew their home advantage.
Games between these two sides usually don’t produce an awful lot of goals, in fact none of their last nineteen head to head encounters have produced four goals, you would have to go way back to 25th April, 2011 to see the last four goals game between these two conservative sides.
Neither of these two sides are having it great at the moment in their different leagues. Nottingham Forest, while they can comfort themselves with the fact that they did have a rather tough fixture line up in their last six, managed to take points from just two, those two wins though came against big sides, Manchester United and Newcastle United. Twenty points from their twenty games played so far means they occupy the 17th position in the Premier league.
Bristol City are probably having it worse as far as league form is concerned, no wins in six in the Championship (W0, D3, L3) has seen them fall to 13th position on the log, having picked up 38 points from 30 games played. They need a lift and this FA cup fixture might just provide it for them if they can earn a win and progress to the fifth round here.
Predicted Starting Lineups
Nottingham: Turner, Montiel, Omobamidele, Murillo, Toffolo, Mangala, Danilo, Dominguez, Gibbs-White, Williams, Awoniyi
Bristol City: O’Leary, Tanner, Vyner, Dickie, McCrorie, James, Williams, Pring, Knight, Conway, Wells