Nottingham Forest vs Leicester City prediction and betting tips on May 11, 2025
Game Prediction
Nottingham Forest and Leicester City will compete in the 36th round of the English Premier League on May 11, 2025. Any result other than a confident victory over the already eliminated opponent will be a big sensation for the Champions League contender.
Our prediction for the match Nottingham Forest vs Leicester City
The club from Nottingham club invited Espirito Santo to the coaching position during the previous competition. Being under his leadership, it managed to take 17th place last spring, but it is worth remembering that the officials took away points for violating the rules of financial fair play. The opponent was relegated to the Championship in 2023. There the club became the best, but the author of that success, Maresca, moved to Chelsea in the summer.
Enzo was replaced by Potter, by the way, a manager who became famous for raising and keeping Forest in the Premier League. Still, he did not show himself in his new place. One way or another, the successes, even with van Nistelrooy, were episodic. The result was an early relegation. Speaking about the previous round, where the team struggled with another hopeless outsider, Southampton, it finally won, moreover, with a 2-0 score. The current hosts looked like the main discovery of the season for a long time. Still, they faltered in the middle of spring, when they were defeated with a 0-2 result by Manchester City in the cup semi-finals, and the Premier League brought a number of defeats, which reduced the chances of fighting for a ticket to the Champions League. The confrontation with Crystal Palace, which was held in the previous round, resulted only in a draw.
Wood and the company score 1.54 goals, but the level of goals conceded rose to 1.2. The newcomer outsider also has got a quite appropriate goal ratio – 0.83/2.17.
Nottingham Forest vs Leicester City: key statistics and trends
- Nottingham Forest has lost 4 of 6 previous matches.
- 46% of Nottingham Forest’s meetings have ended with “both teams to score: yes” and the average number of goals per struggle is 2.74.
- Leicester City has gone unbeaten only twice in its 13 previous games.
- 49% of Leicester’s confrontations have brought “both teams to score: yes” and the average number of goals per match is 3.0.
Nottingham Forest vs Leicester City: possible starting line-ups
Nottingham Forest (possible line-up): Sels – Toffolo, Murillo, Milenkovic, Williams – Danilo, Dominguez, Anderson, Gibbs-White – Elanga, Wood.
Leicester City (possible line-up): Hermansen – Thomas, Coady, Okoli, Justin – Soumare, Ndidi, Mavididi, El Khannouss, McAteer – Vardy.
Previous head-to-head matches: Nottingham Forest vs Leicester City
Nottingham has won 4 of 6 previous head-to-head encounters, losing only once. For instance, both previous meetings were won.
Free prediction for the match Nottingham Forest vs Leicester City
The hosts simply must win, and not by a minimum. As a result, it makes sense to bet on them to take a victory with “a -1.5 goal handicap” (odd: 1.98).