H2H: Nottingham Forest vs Wycombe Wanderers – Prediction (Championship

H2H: Nottingham v Wycombe – Comparison.

Two-goal Lyle Taylor’s lower league experience may prove useful here as he has three career H2H goals and hasn’t lost a match against Wycombe (W4, D1). Wycombe’s all-time top scorer Adebayo Akinfenwa may be their best chance of goal here but will need to wrestle a four-game career H2H winless run (D2, L2). Since the start of 2017/18, Forest’s home league record vs newly promoted opposition is strong (W8, D1, L2). Eight of the ten W/Ls produced a one-goal margin, while five of the last six W/Ls saw the scoring opened between the 16th-30th minute.

Nottingham Insights.

Breaking a four-game Championship winless run with a 2-1 win last time out, Nottingham Forest played out their first match to produce over 2.5 match goals since manager Chris Hughton’s arrival six matchdays ago. Forest have conceded an alarming number of league goals in the 45th-60th minute though (GF 0, GA 4), highlighting a potential weak spot. However, Forest have halted a seven-game home Championship trend of conceding first following a 2-1 win last time at home (D3, L4). This victory also features in the Reds’ record of scoring in both halves in just six of their 17 home Championship matches in 2020 (W6, D5, L6), as well as their eighth home match on the spin wherein they’ve failed to get a home shutout.

Wycombe Insights.

Wycombe Wanderers have won consecutive league matches – each by a one-goal margin – for the first time since mid-February last season (W6, D2, L8). Despite overcoming a seven-game league losing streak, Wycombe must overcome underdog status for a third-game running. Conceding 2.20 average goals from their last five league awaydays (W1, L4), and shipping three unanswered league goals in the 45th-60th minute period (GF 0, GA 3), Wycombe have a period of weakness themselves. They also haven’t led at HT in a league awayday thus far, even though they’ve claimed the fourth-most points of the league when trailing at HT (1.50).