Nottingham Forest v Burnley

Without Hobbs, Vaughan and Reid, I'd say we will probably lose. Burnely don't just have good strikers, they also have a compact midfield and some pretty solid defenders. I can't see us winning this one to be honest.

Although Burnley are strong favourites for sure and I think we will lose, you never know in football. I thought we'd lose at the bin robbers and would have happily taken a draw before the game.

as i wrote in my article i just put up, i think either halford or hobbs will be fit, we know how billy overplays injuries.

Maybe burnley will be overconfident, or get a man sent off, or jara will just be a gem in midfield and it'll mean everything will fall into place around him. Maybe he wont and we'll just have to score more than them. Maybe we'll get thrashs. Never know, but i think we'll get something, probably a draw.

He has done in the past Forest Monkey with Earnie being an example of that, but I haven't really seen it in the second spell.

The other possibility is we use a striker as a make shift defender, it's not uncommon. Lets face it we have about four hundred of them and most can't see to ever get the ball near the goal, that would be an asset in defence. Take Miller against Watford, the option he took would be considered "safety first" at the back

Let's remember that in the League Cup we gave them a good game with our second eleven (but we did have two recognised CBs that night)

I expect whoever is the fitter, Hobbs or Halford will play alongside Lascelles. Jara and Chalobah will be DMs and Mackie, Lansbury, and Pato ahead of them. Cox up front. Not a bad team.

I think Billy will have to keep changing the shape though to try to gain a foothold in the match, and Raddi should get at least half an hour on the pitch. I'd make Burnley slight favourites

Nottingham Forest: Forest: Darlow, Lichaj, Hobbs, Lascelles, Cohen, Jara, Paterson, Lansbury, Majewski, Mackie, Cox

Subs: De Vries, Harding, Chalobah, Henderson, Abdoun, Derbyshire, Tudgay

I think we're in with a very good chance assuming that Jack Hobbs is fit and last's the game.

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