Nottingham Forest vs Cardiff City Predictions, Betting Tips and Match Preview

This Sunday lunchtime (13:00) game features two sides going well in the top-half of the Championship table. Here we have our match preview with all the best predictions, betting tips and match stats.

Nottingham Forest bounced back to winning ways as they defeated Norwich 1-0 at the City Ground in midweek. A 77th minute Daryl Murphy goal proved to be the difference between the two sides. Cardiff made it back-to-back victories with a 1-0 victory at Oakwell over Barnsley on Tuesday night. Callum Paterson got the only goal of the game seven minutes from time in a fixture that seemed headed for a draw. The two meetings between this pair last season were won by Cardiff who won the game in Wales 1-0 and the match at the City Ground 2-1. Aron Gunnarson netted in both games and has scored in his last three against Forest.

Bookmakers are having trouble splitting the pair with Forest the marginal favourites and this seems a fair assessment. If pushed I would lean towards the draw but I would look elsewhere to find the match betting value. Forest have hosted three similar strong teams in the past few months beating Sheffield United 2-1 and losing to Fulham 3-1 and Wolves 2-1. I think this then points to a bet on over 2.5 goals and over 2.5 goals and YES both teams to score in a double as the single price on both teams to score is just a little short.

Over 2.5 goals in this game

Yes both teams to score and over 2.5 goals in this game