Head coach Steve Cooper has named his Nottingham Forest team to face Brentford in this afternoon’s Premier League clash.
The Reds have three more games to play before the season takes a break for the World Cup. And they will be aiming to make the most of home advantage in each of them, starting against the Bees.
Cooper’s men are bottom of the table ahead of kick-off at the City Ground. They go into the match eager to bounce back from last weekend’s 5-0 hammering at Arsenal which led to the manager calling out a lack of fighting spirit in a dismal performance.
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Cooper makes three changes to the side which started at the Emirates Stadium last time out. Neco Williams, Brennan Johnson and Emmanuel Dennis come into the XI, with Renan Lodi, Jesse Lingard and Taiwo Awoniyi dropping to the bench.
Williams comes back in at left-back, while Serge Aurier keeps his place on the right. Steve Cook and Scott McKenna are once again the centre-back pairing ahead of goalkeeper Dean Henderson.
Ryan Yates, Remo Freuler and Cheikhou Kouyate make up the midfield. But there are changes made going forward, with Johnson and Dennis joining Morgan Gibbs-White in attack.
Joining Lodi, Lingard and Awoniyi on the substitutes’ bench are Wayne Hennessey, Joe Worrall, Orel Mangala, Lewis O’Brien, Sam Surridge and Willy Boly.
Forest: Henderson; Aurier, Cook, McKenna, Williams; Freuler, Yates, Kouyate; Johnson, Dennis, Gibbs-White. Subs: Hennessey, Worrall, Mangala, Awoniyi, Lingard, O’Brien, Surridge, Boly, Lodi.
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