Soccer match preview: Home crowd has high hopes when Nottingham Forest welcomes Barnsley norsk

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Competition: England Championship
Date: Sat 21.September
Match begins: 14:00 (UTC)
Venue: The City Ground (30576 seats)

The home fans are expecting three points in this fixture, as the home advantage should be put to good use versus a struggling visitor. Nottingham Forest are in the 9th position while the guests worry at 22nd.

We should expect both teams to be fresh and ready for this match, as there is some time since both teams last played. Let's have a look at how the teams are doing!

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Nottingham Forest form and stats

Nottingham Forest have played 3 Championship games at their own stadium so far this season, resulting in 1-1-1 (wins-draws-losses).

Happy days for Nottingham Forest in their previous game, a Championship match away at Swansea City (placed 2nd) that ended with a 1-0 victory. Preceding that game was the home draw versus Preston North End that ended 1-1.

There will be little rest for Nottingham Forest after this match as they are travelling to Arsenal for a Carabao Cup game in only three days.

Nottingham Forest have proved capable of finding the net in their games here at The City Ground with 5 goals in 3 league matches. Nottingham Forest's goalkeeper has had to pick the ball out of their own net 3 times. For more goal stats, check the Statistics tab above.

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Barnsley form and stats

The Championship season is young and Barnsley, who have the fewest scored goals (0) away in Championship, have only just started going through their travel schedule, with 3 away games done and still no victory. 1 draw and 2 defeats so far.

The manager D. Stendel was unhappy after their last game, a Championship match played at their home ground The City Ground. Barnsley suffered a 0-2 loss to Leeds United (placed 1st). Preceding that game, the 0-0 draw paying a visit to Wigan Athletic.

Looking at the earlier recent performances of Barnsley when being an outsider away as they are today, we find one match with the visitors losing 1 time, drawing 0 and winning 0 games.

Goals are few and far between in Barnsley's away league games. Only 0 goals from 3 travels. Barnsley have conceded 4 goals in these away matches.

Head 2 Head

Head-2-head stats last ten meetings: 4 - 3 - 3 (Nottingham Forest wins - draws - Barnsley wins). As for goals, 5 matches ended with three or more goals (over 2,5), 5 had two or less.

Top Goalscorers

L. Grabban
4 goals / 1 assists
A. Adomah
2 goals / 1 assists
M. Dawson
1 goals

Nottingham Forest missing players

Barnsley missing players

Nottingham Forest Barnsley
Total Home Home vs low Statistics Away vs mid Away Total
7 3 0 Played 1 3 7
3 1 0 Won 0 0 1
3 1 0 Drew 0 1 2
1 1 0 Lost 1 2 4
10 5 0 Scored 0 0 4
6 3 0 Conceded 2 4 11
100% 100% 0% Over 0.5 100% 67% 86%
86% 100% 0% Over 1.5 100% 67% 71%
43% 67% 0% Over 2.5 0% 0% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 3.5 0% 0% 29%
0% 0% 0% Over 4.5 0% 0% 0%
71% 67% 0% BTTS 0% 0% 29%
29% 33% 0% Clean Sheets 0% 33% 29%
0% 0% 0% Failed to Score 100% 100% 57%
 
3.7 5.7 0 Corners For (avg) 4 6 6
6.6 3.7 0 Corners Against (avg) 6 5.3 5.7
2.1 1.3 0 Yellow Cards (avg) 1 2.3 2.6
0 0 0 Red Cards 0 1 1
Key stats This season:
  • All of Nottingham Forest's home matches have had more than 1,5 goals.
  • Barnsley have conceded at least twice as many goals as they have scored.
  • Barnsley have failed to score a single goal away.
  • Barnsley have yet to win a game away.
  • Nottingham Forest have scored in all their matches so far.
  • Nottingham Forest have scored more than double the goals of Barnsley.
  • Nottingham Forest have won significantly more corners at home than away.
  • Nottingham Forest haven’t played a single 0-0 game.

Nottingham Forest
All Championship Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
21-08-19 CH Charlton Athletic 1 - 1 Nottingham Forest
24-08-19 CH Fulham 1 - 2 Nottingham Forest
27-08-19 CC Nottingham Forest 3 - 0 Derby County
31-08-19 CH Nottingham Forest 1 - 1 Preston North End
14-09-19 CH Swansea City 0 - 1 Nottingham Forest
21-09-19 CH Nottingham Forest 14:00 Barnsley
24-09-19 CC Arsenal 18:45 Nottingham Forest
27-09-19 CH Stoke City 19:00 Nottingham Forest
01-10-19 CH Blackburn Rovers 18:45 Nottingham Forest
05-10-19 CH Nottingham Forest 14:00 Brentford
Barnsley
All EFL Trophy League One Championship Club Friendlies Carabao Cup FA Cup
All Home Away
17-08-19 CH Barnsley 2 - 2 Charlton Athletic
20-08-19 CH Birmingham City 2 - 0 Barnsley
24-08-19 CH Barnsley 1 - 3 Luton Town
31-08-19 CH Wigan Athletic 0 - 0 Barnsley
15-09-19 CH Barnsley 0 - 2 Leeds United
21-09-19 CH Nottingham Forest 14:00 Barnsley
29-09-19 CH Barnsley 12:30 Brentford
02-10-19 CH Barnsley 18:45 Derby County
05-10-19 CH Preston North End 14:00 Barnsley
19-10-19 CH Barnsley 14:00 Swansea City

  Total Home Away  
# Team MP W D L F A MP W D L F A MP W D L F A +/- P
1 Leeds United 7 5 1 1 12 3 3 1 1 1 2 2 4 4 0 0 10 1 9 16
2 Swansea City 7 5 1 1 12 5 4 3 0 1 8 4 3 2 1 0 4 1 7 16
3 Charlton Athletic 7 4 2 1 11 6 4 2 1 1 5 3 3 2 1 0 6 3 5 14
4 Bristol City 7 4 2 1 13 9 3 1 1 1 5 5 4 3 1 0 8 4 4 14
5 Preston North End 7 4 1 2 13 7 4 4 0 0 10 2 3 0 1 2 3 5 6 13
6 West Bromwich Albion 7 3 4 0 11 8 3 1 2 0 5 4 4 2 2 0 6 4 3 13
7 Queens Park Rangers 7 4 1 2 12 11 4 2 1 1 8 7 3 2 0 1 4 4 1 13
8 Birmingham City 7 4 1 2 7 8 3 2 1 0 5 2 4 2 0 2 2 6 -1 13
9 Nottingham Forest 7 3 3 1 10 6 3 1 1 1 5 3 4 2 2 0 5 3 4 12
10 Sheffield Wednesday 7 4 0 3 10 6 3 2 0 1 4 2 4 2 0 2 6 4 4 12
11 Fulham 7 3 2 2 11 6 4 2 1 1 8 3 3 1 1 1 3 3 5 11
12 Blackburn Rovers 7 3 1 3 7 7 4 2 1 1 4 2 3 1 0 2 3 5 0 10
13 Middlesbrough 7 2 3 2 8 8 4 2 1 1 3 2 3 0 2 1 5 6 0 9
14 Cardiff City 7 2 3 2 8 10 3 2 1 0 5 3 4 0 2 2 3 7 -2 9
15 Millwall 7 2 3 2 5 9 3 2 1 0 3 1 4 0 2 2 2 8 -4 9
16 Luton Town 7 2 1 4 12 13 3 1 1 1 6 6 4 1 0 3 6 7 -1 7
17 Reading 7 2 1 4 8 9 3 1 0 2 4 5 4 1 1 2 4 4 -1 7
18 Brentford 7 2 1 4 5 6 3 1 1 1 4 2 4 1 0 3 1 4 -1 7
19 Derby County 7 1 4 2 7 10 4 0 3 1 3 4 3 1 1 1 4 6 -3 7
20 Hull City 7 1 3 3 8 11 4 1 1 2 5 7 3 0 2 1 3 4 -3 6
21 Wigan Athletic 7 1 2 4 6 13 3 1 1 1 3 4 4 0 1 3 3 9 -7 5
22 Barnsley 7 1 2 4 4 11 4 1 1 2 4 7 3 0 1 2 0 4 -7 5
23 Huddersfield Town 7 0 1 6 5 13 4 0 0 4 2 8 3 0 1 2 3 5 -8 1
24 Stoke City 7 0 1 6 7 17 4 0 1 3 4 9 3 0 0 3 3 8 -10 1

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