Nottingham Forest vs Everton Prediction: Tricky Trees can get their revenge

Sean Dyche's former team Everton got the better of his current club, Nottingham Forest in a 3-0 win on Merseyside earlier this month, but the Tricky Trees can get their revenge at the City Ground on Tuesday (19:30, live on Sky Sports Cricket).

Everton, now coached by David Moyes, have failed to even score in three matches since that win but they arrive in Nottingham in 12th place in the standings, five positions and seven points ahead of their hosts. Read on for my Nottingham Forest vs Everton predictions, featuring match odds and team news.

Team News

Forest pair Willy Boly and Ibrahim Sangare are away at the Africa Cup of Nations and Chris Wood is injured. Dan Ndoye is close to returning after a couple of weeks out.

Everton are missing Iliman Ndiaye and Idrissa Gueye due to the Africa Cup of Nations while Jarrad Branthwaite and Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall are still out with injuries. Jack Grealish missed Saturday's game at Burnley with a virus but could return here.

Nottingham Forest vs Everton Odds

Nottingham Forest are the 6/5 favourites to win the Premier League match with Everton the 13/5 underdogs and the draw available at 9/4. It's 6/5 for there to be over 2.5 goals in the game and 4/6 for two or fewer goals to be scored.

The odds for both teams to score in the match are 10/11 and it's the same price that one or both teams fail to score.

Nottingham Forest to win @ 6/5

Successive Premier League losses to Fulham and Manchester City have put Nottingham Forest on the back foot since their excellent 3-0 home win over Tottenham but they should still feel they are capable of getting their revenge on Everton for their recent loss on Merseyside.

The Toffees beat their former manager Sean Dyche and his new team 3-0 at Hill Dickinson Stadium but they have done little of note since, failing to even score in matches against Chelsea, Arsenal and Burnley.

The first two defeats were forgivable, but drawling a blank against the Clarets extended their barren run to three games. The return of Jack Grealish would add some welcome creativity to the Toffees team, but Forest showed enough in a promising performance against Manchester City to suggest they can pick up three points against far more beatable opponents.

Igor Jesus first goalscorer @ 5/1

Pep Guardiola was full of praise for Forest striker Igor Jesus after his combative performance on Saturday and the Brazilian striker could add to this tally of seven goals in his first season with Forest when Everton visit.

With goals likely to be hard to come by, taking Jesus to score first rather than at any time in the match is worth it for the improved return.

Jesus has done most of his scoring in cup competitions this season but he netted the only goal of the game in Forest's 1-0 win at Wolves at the start of this month and a similar outcome looks a realistic possibility.

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