West Ham vs Nottingham Forest Prediction: Both attacks likely to be hammered shut?

Nuno Espirito Santo reunites with former side Nottingham Forest on Tuesday night (20:00 GMT, live on Sky Sports Main Event) as West Ham United welcome the Tricky Trees to the London Stadium.

West Ham are looking to bounce back from handing Wolves their first win of the campaign at the weekend, while Forest are looking to get back in the win column after losing 3-1 away at Aston Villa. Read on for my West Ham vs Nottingham Forest predictions, as well as the latest team news and match odds.

Team News

Lucas Paqueta and Jean-Clair Todibo both missed the defeat against Wolves, so both will need assessing prior to Tuesday's contest.

Soungoutou Magassa and Freddie Potts were both withdrawn at half-time during that game, so Tomas Soucek is expected to replace one of them in the starting lineup.

El Hadji Malick Diouf and Aaron Wan-Bissaka remain away on international duty at the Africa Cup of Nations.

As for Forest, John Victor came off with a suspected calf problem, although the severity of the injury is still unknown, while Callum Hudson-Odoi and Dan Ndoye both remain absent with knocks.

In addition, Chris Wood, Ryan Yates (both injured), Willy Boly and Ibrahim Sangare (both Afcon) will not be involved for the visitors.

West Ham vs Nottingham Forest Odds

West Ham are 21/10, giving them an implied win probability of 32.3%, the draw is 12/5 and Forest are 11/8.

Both teams to score can be backed at 4/6, while over 2.5 goals is available at 10/11.

Draw @ 12/5

Both West Ham and Forest arrive to this fixture in dismal form, and relegation fears are slowly, week-by-week, becoming very real.

When teams near the relegation zone face one another, it becomes about who doesn't want to make the first mistake, so we could see these two side cancel each other out here.

As they're on a winless run of nine games, I think the Hammers would snap your hand off for a point right now, and similarly Forest would too. Sean Dyche's men are winless in their last four and are looking to avoid back-to-back defeats on the road for the first time since October.

Under 2.5 goals @ 10/11

I'm going to double-down on these two cancelling each other out by also backing under 2.5 goals.

Santo vs Dyche doesn't scream 'attacking football' to begin with but when you factor in the form of both sides, goals look set to be at a premium on Tuesday night.

Across nine previous meetings between the two managers, there have been just 19 goals in total, with seven of those games finishing under 2.5 goals.

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