Premier League: Crystal Palace vs Nottingham Forest - Betting Tips, Odds & Prediction

Crystal Palace play their first home match of the season at Selhurst Park on Monday and Nottingham Forest will be the first guest to drop by at the Eagles’ den. Since both teams have had good starts to their campaigns, punters are showing great interest in this matchup on top betting websites.  

Oliver Glasner’s men have lifted the FA Cup and the Community Shield lately. They brought that form into the league as they forced Chelsea to share the spoils at Stamford Bridge. Forest narrowly missed out on Champions League football last season, but started the new campaign strongly with a commanding win. 

Read on for our breakdown of the best bets to make on Crystal Palace vs Nottingham Forest this round.

Crystal Palace

Crystal Palace have been in a giant killing mood lately. They beat Manchester City in the FA Cup final, saw off Liverpool in the Community Shield, and last weekend, held off a £250 million Chelsea attack to secure a draw at Stamford Bridge. 

The recent transfer updates, however, were distractions Glasner could have done without. Yet, the likes of Eberechi Eze and Marc Guehi showed no lack of commitment against Chelsea, and Palace will hope the team can keep their focus when Forest visit.

New bookmakers are labeling Palace as the favourites because of their excellent recent form and home team status.

Team News: Eberechi Eze is expected to join Arsenal soon, so it’s unlikely he will be in the squad.

Predicted Lineup: Henderson; Richards, Lacroix, Guehi; Munoz, Wharton, Hughes, Sosa; Esse, Edouard; Mateta.

Nottingham Forest

Returning to Europe after such a long absence is a significant achievement for Nottingham Forest. Nuno Espirito Santo’s men came agonisingly close to securing a Champions League spot, so missing out on that is a regret that won’t go away anytime soon in the Forest camp. 

But, the Tricky Trees seemed quite inspired when they stepped out of the tunnel against Brentford and essentially finished the game in the first half with a brace from Chris Wood and a Dan Ndoye goal. 

Crystal Palace could be a trickier assignment, but Forest will go to the capital brimming with confidence following their dominant opening day win.

Team News: Nottingham Forest don’t have any fresh injury concerns heading into this clash.

Predicted Lineup: Sels; Cunha, Milenkovic, Murillo, Williams; Yates, Anderson; Ndoye, Gibbs-White, Hudson-Odoi; Wood.

• Palace have never won against Forest in their 10 previous Premier League meetings. 
• The last four Palace vs Forest matches at Selhurst Park ended in draws. 
• Crystal Palace have won the first home match of their Premier League season only once.

There has been plenty of bad blood between these two clubs in recent times over Palace’s Europa League disqualification. Nottingham Forest informed UEFA of the ownership conflict that made Palace ineligible for Europe’s second-tier tournament. Now, it is Forest who will take that spot.

Our football expert tips that this is going to be a fiery encounter, but the home team’s attack will take a big hit in Eze’s absence. Their matches have ended level the last four times these two teams have met at Selhurst Park. 

Palace will be a difficult side to break down at home. While Forest’s attack looks promising, it doesn’t seem like they’ll be able to outscore Palace at Selhurst Park.

Crystal Palace 0-0 Nottingham Forest @ $8.50

This fixture has seen a lot of draws in recent years, and this seems destined to be another one. Palace’s defensive core featuring Guehi, Maxence Lacroix, and Chris Richards was incredibly successful in containing Chelsea’s attacking threat at the Bridge last weekend. We expect them to be even more effective in front of a roaring Selhurst crowd. But without Eze, they might lose the threat in attack. 

So, we feel there’s great value in backing a goalless draw at odds of $8.50 at 20Bet.