Roy Keane and Gary Neville agree that Nottingham Forest face an uphill task to avoid relegation from the Premier League this season.
Forest have slipped into the bottom three following a run of nine winless games. They have eight games left to reverse their fate.
Ahead of their home clash with Manchester United this afternoon (4:30pm), former Reds midfielder Keane, told Sky Sports: "It’s obviously very, very difficult, it’s been a tough season for them. A lot of players have come into the club, they’ve obviously made a lot of changes.
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"It’s been tough going, they’re obviously not scoring enough goals and conceding a lot - huge game for them today, but as you said it’s an opportunity. They had a couple of positive results earlier in the season against Man City and Liverpool, so they have proven they can get results here.
"Just recently they’ve come off it and lost their momentum at the most valuable time and they’re in huge trouble. Fingers crossed they can get themselves out of trouble, personally I had three great years here with some great players and great characters here."
Former Man United defender Neville added: "I think they [Forest] will look at results, some go for them and some go against them, obviously Bournemouth have done brilliantly well but Everton, I would worry now for Everton.
"I had Bournemouth going down a few weeks ago and I thought Forest would be in trouble, but Everton, for some reason, I thought would get out of it but you look at the fixtures they’ve got and some of the stuff that we saw yesterday - they get back in the game with a really good goal and you think this is a game.
"Everybody would have looked at the Fulham game as almost one they would pick up three points in potentially, but then this happens and I have to say, I would be very worried if I was an Everton fan at this moment in time."
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