Both Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher have predicted that Nottingham Forest will go down at the end of the season as they name their bottom three.
Forest are set to drop back into the relegation zone by the end of the day following a late loss against Brentford on Saturday. The result between Leicester City and Everton will determine who goes above them on Monday (8pm kick-off).
The fight for survival is realistically between six clubs for the bottom three places. Speaking before the weekend’s loss, both Neville and Carragher named Forest as one of the teams in their bottom three.
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“I hope they stay up, but I think they’re going to go down,” Neville said on The Overlap fan debate .
Carragher added: “I think they’ll go down.”
Neville then outlined that Forest have been a long-term worry for him this season, adding: “I thought from January, I thought they would be in trouble.”
However, Carragher did highlight two players who ‘have something about them’ for Forest and could make a difference.
“I think (Brennan) Johnson and (Morgan) Gibbs-White when I think of Forest playing,” he said. “When you go to a game, I do get that feeling they could do something. They have something about them.”
Neville named Southampton, Forest and Everton in his bottom three, while Carragher settled on Southampton, Forest and Leeds United.
Forest are back in action next Monday when they host bottom-of-the-table Southampton at the City Ground. A win for the Reds could see them climb out of the relegation zone again depending on other results around the league.
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