Ipswich vs Nottingham Forest Prediction & Preview
Zero clean sheets in Ipswich Town's last six matches, and three games without a goal in Nottingham Forest's. That is the shape of Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest, a Premier League fixture at Portman Road, Ipswich, kicking off at 20:00 BST on Friday 23 October 2026. One side cannot stop goals, the other cannot find them, and you can make your call on the Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest match page.
- Fixture: Ipswich Town v Nottingham Forest
- Competition: Premier League
- Date: Friday 23 October 2026
- Kick-off: 20:00 BST
- Venue: Portman Road, Ipswich
Can Ipswich Town keep anything out at Portman Road?
Ipswich Town have conceded two or more goals in four of their last six matches and kept no clean sheets at all in that run. They score, too: two or more in four of the six, with four of those games producing three goals or more.
Gary O'Neil's side lost 2-3 away to Manchester City on 17 October, six days before this match. Before that they beat Fulham 2-1 at home and won 3-2 away at Crystal Palace. Two wins, four defeats, six points from six.
Entertaining, and nowhere near solid.
Nottingham Forest have the opposite problem
Five goals in six matches. Nottingham Forest failed to score in three of them, which is the number that should worry Oliver Glasner more than anything at the back - Forest kept a clean sheet in that run, the 0-0 at home to Tottenham Hotspur, and conceded two or more in only three of six.
The recent run reads badly all the same. Forest lost 1-3 away to Crystal Palace on 11 October, 12 days before this match, and were beaten 0-1 at home by Coventry City before that. Their one win in six came away at Aston Villa, 2-1 on 12 September. Five points against Ipswich's six.
Away from the City Ground, Forest have won one of three. Ipswich have won one of three at home. Neither record settles anything.
Ipswich Town and Nottingham Forest team news
Nottingham Forest were missing Nicolò Savona with a knee problem and Igor Jesus with a calf injury, while captain Morgan Gibbs-White was rated a doubt after a minor injury picked up against Crystal Palace, according to Yahoo Sports; Nikola Milenković returned to full first-team training after bone bruising, and Glasner said of Gibbs-White that "the team doesn't just depend on him". Ipswich Town, by contrast, had nobody listed as out or doubtful in Sports Mole's most recent team news, with Issahaku Fatawu available again after a suspension.
Ipswich Town vs Nottingham Forest prediction
Our prediction is an Ipswich Town win, 2-1 against Nottingham Forest in the Premier League at Portman Road on Friday 23 October 2026. Ipswich have scored two or more in four of their last six, and a Forest attack that has managed five goals in six matches is unlikely to punish them for the gaps that cost them 13 goals in that run. Both sides scored in four of Ipswich's six, so expect Forest to get one. Expect Ipswich to get more.
Our prediction: Ipswich Town 2-1 Nottingham Forest
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