Nottingham Forest hosts Bradford City in the English EFL Cup 1/64 finals. The match will be played on Wednesday, August 11th at City Ground (Nottingham)
The Foresters are rightfully proud of their achievement — under the management of Brian Clough, a modest team won the European Champions Cup in 1979 and 1980. But ground was lost rather quickly after that, and Nottingham Forest has not been in the country's top league for a long time. Rather, it has to fight not to drop into League 1. Under the management of Chris Houghton, the Foresters were ranked only 17th in the previous season. Now he has a new difficult task, as the roster had to be gathered almost from scratch. Half a dozen loaned players left, and a lot of contracts expired. Dawson and Murray finished their playing careers. Yes, there are some curious newcomers like goalkeeper Horvath, but the roster is just short.
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At the beginning of the century, Bradford City played against Zenit in the semifinals of the Intertoto Cup. Then the Bantams played a couple of seasons in the Premier League. After that, there was a slow but almost constant regression. As a result, now this team is struggling not to leave at least League 2, which is the 4th level of football in the country. The last draw brought only 15th place out of 24. Derek Adams, a well-known Scottish footballer in the past who has already managed to coach Ross County and Plymouth, will try to improve something. There are also enough newcomers. In addition to free agents, they signed contracts with their talented youth. But only the games will show what the club is capable of now.
Nottingham Forest has not lost to Bradford in eight consecutive matches. But the last time the clubs played against each other was back in 2010. By the way, it was also in August and also in the League Cup. And the Bantams gained victory in extra time. Now there are two divisions between the teams, and the stronger one will play at home. We recommend betting on Nottingham Forest to win with a -1 handicap.
Prediction for the match: Nottingham to win with -1.0 handicap
