FTMatchday 21

West Ham United vs Nottingham Forest: Prediction

📍 London Stadium

West Ham United1

Nottingham Forest2

Not enough past results yet.

Match events

3 goals

West Ham UnitedNottingham Forest

Murilloown goal13'
46'Omari Hutchinsonon
55'Nicolás Domínguezassist Elliott Anderson
Jean-Clair Todiboyellow card61'
Lucas Paquetáon63'
Oliver Scarleson63'
Mateus Fernandeson80'
89'Morgan Gibbs-Whitepenalty
Konstantinos Mavropanosyellow card90'
Kyle Walker-Petersyellow card90'
90'Kyle Walker-Peterson

Events from TheSportsDB. They can lag the live score by a few minutes.

Match stats

West Ham UnitedNottingham Forest

47%Possession53%
1Expected goals (xG)1
14Shots13
3Shots on target5
6Corners5
15Fouls9
3Yellow cards0
0Red cards0
1Offsides0
3Saves3
379Passes418

Line-ups

West Ham United

20Jarrod Bowen
23Alphonse Areola
2Kyle Walker-Peters
15Konstantinos Mavropanos
10Lucas Paquetá
25Jean-Clair Todibo
28Tomáš Souček
7Crysencio Summerville
11Taty Castellanos
18Mateus Fernandes
30Oliver Scarles

Nottingham Forest

26Matz Sels
34Ola Aina
31Nikola Milenković
3Neco Williams
16Nicolás Domínguez
7Callum Hudson-Odoi
10Morgan Gibbs-White
8Elliott Anderson
21Omari Hutchinson
5Murillo
19Igor Jesus

Tipster consensus

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Most likely score–

Expected goals (model)–

Team rating (Elo)1492 – 1492

Recent form

West Ham UnitedLLLDL

Nottingham ForestWLLLL

#	Team	P	GD	Pts
1	Nottingham Forest	38	-3	44
2	West Ham United	38	-19	39

Head to head

Nottingham Forest 0–3 West Ham United2025-08-31

Match preview

West Ham United host Nottingham Forest in the Premier League on 6 January 2026. West Ham United sit 18th on 39 points and Nottingham Forest are 16th on 44. West Ham United have won 0 of their last 5 (LLLDL), while Nottingham Forest have won 1 of 5 (WLLLL). In their last 1 meetings, West Ham United won 1, Nottingham Forest won 0 and 0 ended level. These are probabilities from past results, not guarantees: football upsets happen every week.

How this is worked out

Each club has an Elo rating that moves after every result (bigger wins move it more, home sides get a small boost). We turn the rating gap into expected goals and use a Poisson model to get win, draw and loss chances. The prediction is locked at kick-off and never edited.

Probabilities, not promises. For analysis and entertainment only. 18+.