Nottingham Forest is coming into this match not playing in poor form in their recent friendlies leading up to the season, and they have actually been trending to the over in their home matches. Last year, they ended the Premier League season going over 2.5 goals in 3 of their last 4 home matches and their starting XI has not changed much since then either. They have played much better in their home matches and will be able to find the net easier here at home, but their defense has also been very vulnerable to conceding goals and they will struggle to keep their opponent out here. They are going up against a Bournemouth side that ended last season playing in very good form. They did lose their top scorer in Solanke to Tottenham, but they still have the same squad as last season other than that big loss. Solanke is a big loss on the attacking end but this Bournemouth squad still has a lot of young talent and there will be more opportunities for some of these other players to step up this season. Nottingham Forest has been very loose on defense so they are going to struggle to keep Bournemouth out here even with Solanke gone from the team now, but Bournemouth has struggled on defense as well and will not be able to keep Nottingham Forest out of their net here. Between these two sides, there will be enough goals in this match to push it over 2.5 goals.
England Premier League: Nottingham Forest/Bournemouth over 2.5 goals, Rot. 200009