Nottingham Forest are being tipped to fall to a fifth straight Premier League defeat when top-flight domestic football returns this weekend with an East Midlands derby against Leicester City.
The Reds are winless since the middle of August and entered the international break on the back of successive 3-2 home defeats against fellow newly-promoted sides Bournemouth and Fulham at the City Ground. They followed previous defeats at the end of last month against Tottenham Hotspur and Manchester City that saw Steve Cooper 's side ship eight unanswered goals within the space of less than a week.
Up next are the only side currently below them in the Premier League table, and the division's one remaining winless side, Leicester. This favourable opposition, on paper, is not predicted to see a change in Forest's fortunes, though, according to the pundits.
