Nottingham Forest v Middlesbrough Championship Predictions & Betting Odds – 19th August 2017

Forest to land important home win

Championship Betting

Nottingham Forest v Middlesbrough Betting Preview – Championship 19th August 3.00pm

This should be a good battle between these two who are both sat on six points after three games played of the new season. Forest opened with two wins but they had their momentum snapped with a defeat against Barnsley in midweek. As for Boro, they lost their opener and are just building some momentum with them having landed back to back wins in the Championship. This should be a good, competitive match up between the two of them.

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Nottingham Forest v Middlesbrough Betting Tips

Well after such a bright start to the new season, Forest had their momentum broken as they went down 2-1 at Barnsley in midweek. Before that loss, they had won their opening two games against Millwall and then Brentford. They seem to have goals in them and Daryl Murphy is a 15/8 option for them with Andreas Bouchalakis at 15/4 and both of them have two goals to their name this season for the Tricky Trees. So Forest will be looking to get back to winning ways as they return to home soil. With Boro have collected six points from their opening two games as well, this is a big important clash early on. Forest have won just one of their last four at home against Boro and the last time that these two were together was in the 2015/16 Championship and Boro took a 2-1 win in this fixture.

It’s unlikely that the winner of this game, whoever it is, is going to do it by any bigger of a margin than one goal. A Forest 1-0 correct score at Coral is at 17/2 while a repeat 2-1 win for Boro is at 8/1. Boro’s season opened with them taking a defeat on the road at Wolves, but since then they have won their two following games both at home over Sheffield United and Burton. However, the Blades are a newly promoted side and Burton are probably the worst side in the division this season and look prime relegation candidates this season. So the one game which they faced tough opposition this season, they lost. Both teams not to score in this one at Coral is a price of even money and that looks a pretty solid wager. Boro had their massive struggles away from home last season and struggled for goals. They haven’t proven that they have the answers to either so far. Defensively they are pretty solid and this game is likely to go under 2.5 goals which is a price of 3/4.

Nottingham Forest v Middlesbrough Betting Odds

Forest 12/5, Draw 5/2, Middlesbrough 13/10

Nottingham Forest v Middlesbrough Predictions

Nottingham Forest to win: Boro’s defeat at Wolves could be quite telling going forward in this one. Forest are a decent side and they can get some momentum back with a win in this one but it will probably be only by the one goal margin and nothing more.