ENGLISH PREMIER BETTING PREVIEW - NOTTINGHAM FOREST VS EVERTON

English Premier

2025-12-30 - Nottingham Forest vs Everton

A Sports Betting Preview by Auls

Nottingham Forest v Everton
Football: English Premier League
Tuesday 30th December 2025 - Kick Off 7:30pm
This game is live on TV

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Nottingham Forest

Sean Dyche may not have been very happy with the officiating in the defeat to Manchester City, but he will likely believe that his Nottingham Forest team will be more than ok in their bid to avoid relegation by producing similar levels in the weeks and months ahead. Finding that consistency remains the challenge for the squad, while the upcoming January transfer window may give Nottingham Forest an opportunity to bolster the options available to the manager.

Despite the home loss on Saturday, Nottingham Forest remain 5 points clear of West Ham United in the relegation zone and will be looking to extend that gap over the next few days. Improving the 3-1-5 record at the City Ground would go a long way in doing that and this is an opportunity for The Tricky Trees to conclude 2025 with a flourish.

Nottingham Forest have lost consecutive Premier League games against Fulham and Manchester City, but they had won 2 in a row in all competitions prior to that. Since Sean Dyche took over as manager, Nottingham Forest have won 4 of 7 home games in all competitions.

Dan Ndoye and Ryan Yates are missing.

Everton

The January transfer window has long been considered one of the more difficult ones in which to do some business, but David Moyes will be urging the Everton board to bring in some new faces. Going into the second half of the season, Everton feel like they could push into European Football with some strong results and Moyes believes his team need some attacking reinforcements to do that.

The Toffees are 12th in the Premier League table and they are just 4 points behind Chelsea in the top five, which underlines what can be achieved in the second half of the campaign. It will also need Everton to improve the 3-2-4 away record in the top flight where they have scored 7 goals and conceded 10.

Everton have not scored in any of the last 3 Premier League games played, but they did hold Burnley to a goalless draw following defeats to Chelsea and Arsenal. At least the team can say they have offered some resiliency away from home where Everton have lost 1 of the last 5 Premier League games played.

Jack Grealish is expected to be available, but Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall is a doubt.

Head to Head

Everton crushed Nottingham Forest 3-0 at the Hill Dickinson Stadium earlier this month.

Last season they were able to leave the City Ground with a 0-1 win.

This means Everton are unbeaten in 5 visits to the City Ground and they have won 4 of those matches.

Prediction

For the second time in December, Everton and Nottingham Forest face off and the expectation is that we will have a similar game to the one that was played out at the Hill Dickinson Stadium.

On that day Everton were 3-0 winners, but Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall was hugely influential for the home team and is set to miss out.

That could mean that this time it is Nottingham Forest who are able to have the better of the fixture, although Everton have had a strong recent record of visiting the City Ground. Since Nottingham Forest returned to the top flight, Everton are unbeaten in 3 games played here and have won consecutive fixtures by the same 0-1 scoreline.

David Moyes will be taking a squad that will be feeling confident about the way they have matched up with Nottingham Forest, but the lack of goals over the last couple of weeks has to be a concern.

Since beating Nottingham Forest at home, Everton have not scored in 3 consecutive Premier League games and they looked second best in the goalless draw at Burnley on Saturday.

A similar level will not be good enough against a Nottingham Forest team that will feel that different refereeing decisions may have seen them edge Manchester City rather than absorbing a narrow home defeat this past weekend. Under Sean Dyche, Nottingham Forest have won 4 of 7 home games in all competitions and the squad looks settled enough to think a narrow victory for The Tricky Trees will be the outcome of this one.

Layers are not expecting many goals with the under 2.5 goals market priced at odds on- backing one of the teams to fail to score is appealing, but you can back Nottingham Forest to snap a poor home run against Everton on the Asian Handicap line at the same price.

It will at least offer half the stake back if this game ends in a draw, but Nottingham Forest may have just enough to secure a vital three points to end what has been a solid calendar year.

The Pick :

Nottingham Forest 1-0 Everton

FIXED ODDS BETTING :

I'll back Nottingham Forest - 0.25 Asian Handicap at 1.83 with Cloudbet

HANDICAP BETTING :

Nottingham Forest are 17th, have lost 10 of 18 games this season, have a 3-1-5 home record showing that they lose at home just as easily as losing away ... and lost 0-3 to Everton at Goodison Park oopps Hill Dickinson Stadium (not a catchy name) just a month ago.

So tell me why are Forest 2.10 favourites to beat Everton in this one?

My stats say Everton are better (1020 pts to 1005) and previous games say that means a 33%-23%-44% split on results over 163 games with the away side favoured.

Everton's away record of 3-2-4 is ok with losses at Man City and Chelsea understandable and wins at Bournemouth and Man Utd encouraging.

These two sides are low scoring at 18 goals (joint second lowest in league and below two relegation teams), and Forest are really missing Chris Wood up front.

I could see this game going 1-0 either way and I'd rather get a bet on at odds of 3.60 at Bet365 or even 3.76 at CLoudbet on the away win rather than the low 2.10ish on a home win.