Head coach Steve Cooper has named his Nottingham Forest team to face Fulham in this evening’s Premier League clash.
In their final outing before the international break, the Reds are looking to end a three-match losing streak when they take on the Cottagers at the City Ground. A dismal second half saw them beaten 3-2 at home to Bournemouth last time out, having taken a two-goal lead.
Since then, free agent Serge Aurier has put pen to paper, becoming Forest’s 22nd, and final, summer addition. But the defender is ineligible for tonight’s match as he continues to wait for visa approval.
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Cooper makes three changes to the starting XI which lost to the Cherries. Captain Joe Worrall, Cheikhou Kouyate and Jesse Lingard drop to the bench. They are replaced in the team by Willy Boly, Remo Freuler and Taiwo Awoniyi.
Boly makes his debut in the Garibaldi, lining up alongside Steve Cook and Scott McKenna in a back three, ahead of goalkeeper Dean Henderson. Freuler will take his place alongside skipper for the day Ryan Yates in midfield.
Neco Williams and Renan Lodi keep their places at right and left wing-back. And supporting Awoniyi in attack will be Morgan Gibbs-White and Brennan Johnson.
Wayne Hennessey, Giulian Biancone, Lewis O’Brien, Harry Toffolo, Sam Surridge and Emmanuel Dennis make up the substitutes’ bench, alongside Worrall, Lingard and Kouyate.
Forest: Henderson; Boly, Cook, McKenna; Williams, Yates, Freuler, Lodi; Gibbs-White; Johnson, Awoniyi. Subs: Hennessey, Biancone, Worrall, Lingard, O’Brien, Toffolo, Surridge, Kouyate, Dennis.
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