Nottingham Forest vs Brighton prediction, odds and how to watch

Nottingham Forest produced a stunning 3-1 victory over Manchester City at the City Ground, with Liam Delap scoring twice to cap a performance built on defensive grit and clinical finishing that left City's 78% possession utterly meaningless.

Nottingham Forest host a Brighton side that has been ruthless, organised, and virtually unbeatable in recent weeks. One team is in crisis. The other smells blood.

Brighton arrive at the Vitality Stadium in brutal form, keeping four clean sheets in their last five Premier League matches. Bournemouth have shown they can shut teams out too, but Wednesday night is a proper test of standards.

Hull City and Nottingham Forest meet on Wednesday with a combined nine winless Premier League matches between them. Something has to give, but neither side looks capable of taking it.

Elliot Anderson returns to the City Ground leading the Premier League in fouls won and ranking top-three for duels, passes and touches, proof his £116m Manchester City move has paid off through control rather than goals. Meanwhile Nottingham Forest, the club that sold him, have failed to score in their first four home games, a historic low shared by only four other top-flight sides.

Oliver Glasner insists his post-Brentford outburst was a deliberate attempt to force change at Nottingham Forest, not a breakdown. With Forest 19th in the Premier League and the club on course for a sixth manager since last season, Saturday's clash with Manchester City will be the first real test of whether the gamble pays off.

Aston Villa threatened legal action against Jamie Carragher over a mild, factually defensible podcast comment about football's pecking order, prompting an apology that Simon Jordan says was never needed. The row echoes Nottingham Forest's own ridiculed legal threat against Crystal Palace fans.

Oliver Glasner has warned Nottingham Forest will be hunting for a sixth head coach since August 2025 unless his players 'buy in' to sweeping changes, after a 2-0 defeat at Brentford left the club bottom-six and the Premier League's lowest scorers.