National cups are something special for many teams and supporters. Today's match will decide whether it's Nottingham Forest or Burnley that keep their silverware dream alive.
There’s little time for restitution or working hard at the training pitch these days, with both teams having played their last game less than four days ago.
Nottingham Forest form and stats
Nottingham Forest participated in Carabao Cup the last season, where they reached the semi-finals and lost against Manchester United.Nottingham Forest have collected 3 points from their Premier League home games so far after 1-0-0.
Nottingham Forest faced defeat in their previous match, away at Manchester United (2-3). Did Nottingham get overconfident in their match against Manchester United? We'll let you decide, but they did lose a 2-0 lead to end up with a 2-3 defeat. Turner had a busy but productive day in the Manchester United match. Despite making seven saves the loss could not be prevented.
Before that game, the 2-1 home victory against Sheffield United.There will be little rest for Nottingham Forest after this match as they are travelling to Chelsea for a Premier League game in only three days.
Early season league goal statistics from Nottingham Forest's 1 home game: {2 goals}, 1 conceded.
Burnley form and stats
Burnley's mission in Carabao Cup last season failed in the round of 16.Burnley might have something to prove in this game as they lost at home in their previous match. Aston Villa proved too strong as Burnley slumped to a 1-3 defeat in front of their own fans at Turf Moor. Guðmundsson got a match rating of 7.41 in that game, top player of the team. Guðmundsson served one assist, hit three key passes, dribled past the opponent 1 of 1 times and had 24 successful passes (of 27 total).
Preceding that, the 0-3 home loss versus Manchester City.As mentioned above, this is an open game with no clear favourite. We have found 6 similar matches played by Burnley in our archives, and the results are: 2 wins for Burnley, 1 draw and 3 defeats.
The visitors are returning home after this fixture, hosting Tottenham Hotspur in just three days.
Head 2 Head
Burnley have pulled off a sequence of 6 consecutive matches without losing (3-3-0) when playing Nottingham Forest.Top Goalscorers
  T. Awoniyi 3 goals |  W. Boly 1 goals |  C. Wood 1 goals |
Nottingham Forest missing players
Burnley missing players
| Nottingham Forest | Burnley | ||||||
| Total | Home | Statistics | Stat | Away | Total | ||
| 25 | 10 | Played | P | 12 | 25 | ||
| 6 | 4 | Won | W | 5 | 13 | ||
| 5 | 2 | Drew | D | 5 | 7 | ||
| 14 | 4 | Lost | L | 2 | 5 | ||
| 28 | 14 | Scored | S | 13 | 35 | ||
| 46 | 19 | Conceded | C | 15 | 25 | ||
| 96% | 100% | Over 0.5 | O 0.5 | 83% | 88% | ||
| 80% | 90% | Over 1.5 | O 1.5 | 67% | 72% | ||
| 60% | 60% | Over 2.5 | O 2.5 | 42% | 52% | ||
| 36% | 40% | Over 3.5 | O 3.5 | 25% | 20% | ||
| 16% | 20% | Over 4.5 | O 4.5 | 8% | 4% | ||
| 60% | 60% | BTTS | BTTS | 50% | 40% | ||
| 12% | 10% | Clean Sheets | C S | 33% | 48% | ||
| 32% | 30% | Failed to Score | F T | 33% | 24% | ||
| 3.3 | 2.7 | Corners for (avg) | C F | 4.8 | 5.7 | ||
| 5.8 | 5.3 | Corners against (avg) | C A | 4 | 3.3 | ||
| 1.9 | 2.1 | Yellow cards (avg) | Y C | 1.6 | 1.4 | ||
| 2 | 0 | Red cards | R C | 1 | 2 | ||
| 7.6 | 8.9 | Shots (avg) | S ( | 11.2 | 14.1 | ||
| 2.9 | 3.2 | Shots on Target (avg) | S O | 3.5 | 4.9 | ||
| 38% | 44% | Goal Efficiency | G E | 31% | 29% | ||
| 12.6 | 12.3 | Shots against (avg) | S A | 10.2 | 8.7 | ||
| 4.4 | 3.7 | Shots on Target against (avg) | S O | 3.4 | 3.2 | ||
| Total | Home | Away | |||||||||||||||||||
| # | Team | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | MP | W | D | L | F | A | +/- | P |
| 1 | Manchester City | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 9 |
| 2 | West Ham United | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 3 | Tottenham Hotspur | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 7 |
| 4 | Liverpool | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 3 | 7 |
| 5 | Arsenal | 3 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 7 |
| 6 | Brighton & Hove Albion | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 6 |
| 7 | Aston Villa | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 8 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 6 | 2 | 6 |
| 8 | Manchester United | 3 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 |
| 9 | Brentford | 3 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 3 | 5 |
| 10 | Chelsea | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| 11 | Crystal Palace | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| 12 | Fulham | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 2 | -2 | 4 |
| 13 | Newcastle United | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 14 | Nottingham Forest | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 | -1 | 3 |
| 15 | Wolverhampton Wanderers | 3 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | -3 | 3 |
| 16 | AFC Bournemouth | 3 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 3 | -4 | 1 |
| 17 | Sheffield United | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 | -3 | 0 |
| 18 | Burnley | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | -5 | 0 |
| 19 | Luton Town | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 7 | -6 | 0 |
| 20 | Everton | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | -6 | 0 |
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- Nottinghamshire Live - (local newspaper)
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- Burnley Express - (local newspaper)
- Up the Clarets! - (supporter site)
