Gary Neville and Wayne Rooney set to raise eyebrows with their Ipswich Town vs Nottingham Forest prediction
03/13/2025 05:50 AM
Nottingham Forest will return to the pitch this weekend when they travel to Ipswich Town for one final game before the international break.
Many Forest players will head off on international duty after the Portman Road visit. Anthony Elanga has made up with Jon Dahl Tomasson and is back in the Sweden squad once again.
The likes of Morgan Gibbs-White, Callum Hudson-Odoi and Elliot Anderson will hope to have received calls from Thomas Tuchel ahead of his first England squad too.
It’s club football as normal for last weekend, however, and Forest will be aiming to avoid a severe case of After the Lord Mayor’s Show following a 1-0 win over Manchester City.
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Gary Neville and Wayne Rooney predict Nottingham Forest score vs Ipswich
It won’t come as a surprise that Gary Neville has gone true to form and been negative on Forest – with former Derby boss Wayne Rooney following suit.
Both are good mates with Ipswich boss Kieran McKenna and heaven forbid they think with their head rather than their heart.
Although the Tractor Boys played well in the FA Cup at Forest, this weekend will be completely different, with the Reds likely to play a very different team altogether.
When predicting Ipswich at home to Forest, they’ve gone with a home win.
Rooney said in agreement with Neville on The Overlap: “1-0 Ipswich. They’ve got to win this game, it’s their last chance.”
Forest won the reverse game 1-0 at the City Ground and going into the international break it’s vitally important that the Reds can leave with a positive result on Saturday.
Forest will need to match Ipswich for work rate
One thing that Forest have to do at the weekend is remain compact and match the Tractor Boys when it comes to work rate.
Ultimately, Forest have lots of reasons to be cheerful right now and face an Ipswich team who realise they’re now running out of time to save themselves.
Forest have largely done okay against newly promoted sides since returning to the Premier League and Espirito Santo will hope to keep that up this weekend.
It’s not completely out of the ordinary for Neville to say something negative about Forest and hopefully this prediction that he’s made can be proved extremely wrong.
