{"id":653153,"date":"2025-04-01T07:00:25","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T11:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/?p=653153"},"modified":"2025-03-31T09:33:56","modified_gmt":"2025-03-31T13:33:56","slug":"nottingham-forest-predicted-lineup-man-utd-apr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2025\/04\/01\/nottingham-forest-predicted-lineup-man-utd-apr\/","title":{"rendered":"Nottingham Forest Predicted Lineup vs Manchester United for April 1"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a Nottingham Forest predicted lineup for their Premier League clash with Manchester United. Fortunes have flipped for these two red-bearing clubs with the Nottingham outfit currently flying high on course for Champions League football while the Red Devils languish in the bottom half of the table. This could be a key win for the Tricky Trees as they try to stretch the gap to the chasing back of Manchester City, Chelsea, and Newcastle for a spot in the top five.<\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest Predicted Lineup vs Manchester United in Premier League Clash<\/h2>\n

How Nottingham Forest Lined Up Recently<\/h3>\n

Summer acquisition Matz Sels has been practically undroppable in goal since joining from Strasbourg. The settled defense has spurred on the side’s strong defence with a centre-back pairing of Murillo and Nikola Milenkovic being flanked by Ola Aina on the right, and Welsh standout Neco Williams on the left.<\/p>\n

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Elliot Anderson is a must in the defensive midfield pivot, usually partnering Nicolas Dominguez, last time out he was partnered by Ryan Yates instead in the middle of the park. Morgan Gibbs-White has been key to the success in the attacking midfield role with Anthony Elanga and Callum Hudson-Odoi providing the wing play, although they were rested for Dominguez and Danilo in the cup.<\/p>\n

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Chris Wood has generally been pivotal to the style of play, providing a big target man for long-balls and crosses. He is replaced by Taiwo Awoniyi whenever he needs to rotate, the former Liverpool man is a similar lanky profile for the team to operate around.<\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest Recent Form & Tactics<\/h3>\n

The setup under Nuno Espirito Santo has been fairly consistent. A 4-2-3-1 that can shift to more of a 4-3-3 and looks to catch opponents on the counter with the pacy wingers and target man striker. Defensively, they are really solid, boasting the third best defense in the league.<\/p>\n

The Tricky Trees are unbeaten in their last five outings but appear to have slowed down slightly, they won twice in that time in the league but needed penalties on two occasions in the FA Cup. They can occasionally find it difficult to score despite putting four past Ipswich Town. Their defensive solidity forms the basis of this squad but if they let in more than one, it becomes an uphill task to win.<\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest Injuries to Consider<\/h3>\n

According to PremierInjuries<\/a>, there are doubts over two of Forest’s star names. Both Wood and Gibbs-White are dealing with some minor problems with the manager unable to confirm whether they’d be fit for this one or not.<\/p>\n

Nottingham Forest Predicted Lineup<\/h3>\n

GK – Matz Sels<\/p>\n

LB – Neco Williams<\/p>\n

CB – Murillo<\/p>\n

CB – Nikola Milenkovic<\/p>\n

RB – Ola Aina<\/p>\n

DM – Elliot Anderson<\/p>\n

DM – Nicolas Dominguez<\/p>\n

AM – Danilo<\/p>\n

W – Callum Hudson-Odoi<\/p>\n

W – Anthony Elanga<\/p>\n

ST – Taiwo Awoniyi<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This is a Nottingham Forest predicted lineup for their Premier League clash with Manchester United. Fortunes have flipped for these two red-bearing clubs with the Nottingham outfit currently flying high on course for Champions League football while the Red Devils languish in the bottom half of the table. This could be a key win for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2013,"featured_media":653164,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4475,18,3],"tags":[31768],"class_list":["post-653153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nottingham-forest","category-manchester-united","category-premier-league","tag-nottingham-forest-predicted-lineup"],"modified_by":"Alex Richards, LWOF Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2013"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653153"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":653165,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653153\/revisions\/653165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}