January 14th features a match where Nottingham Forest will play host to Leicester City in a Premier League match. The game day is forecasted to be a cloudy and cool day, with daytime temperatures of only 6 degrees, making for an unpleasant day. Nottingham Forest is fresh off their 1-4 loss against Blackpool. Marvin Ekpiteta scored the first goal for Blackpool in the 17th minute, then Ian Poveda-Ocampo added another in the 64th minute on a feed from Jerry Yates. Nottingham Forest is looking for direction having earned 12 points in their last 10 matches, while in their last match, 13th placed Leicester City, recorded a 1-0 shutout win against Gillingham. Kelechi Iheanacho scored the first goal for Leicester City in the 56th minute, and that was all the excitement the two teams could muster In the end, Gillingham was frustrated by Leicester City’s defence and couldn’t put any tallies on the board. Leicester City ended the match with the shutout victory. Leicester City is looking for direction having 5 win and 4 losses in their last 10 matches.
In their last match together, Leicester City won by a score of 4 to 0 in front of just over 32000 jubilant fans. James Maddison struck first for Leicester City in the 25th minute, then Harvey Barnes added another in the 27th minute At the end of 90 a dissapointed Nottingham Forest couldn’t manage to score, and Leicester City took the shutout win.
Leicester City is having problems scoring lately. Their top scorers, Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall and Kelechi Iheanacho each only have 1 goal in their last 5. Nottingham Forest’s most prolific scorer has been Taiwo Awoniyi. The Nigerian attacker has netted two goals over the last 5 matches
Moussa Niakhaté, Giulian Biancone, Cheikhou Kouyaté and Omar Richards are unavailable to play for Steve Cooper’s team, while Ryan Bertrand, James Maddison, Ricardo Pereira, Jonny Evans and James Justin are unavailable to play for Brendan Rodgers’s team.