Nottingham Forest vs West Ham United Prediction, Odds and Picks for Sunday, 08/31/25

West Ham have been doing a lot of soul-searching over the last week, but the pressure will intensify on Hammers manager Graham Potter if his team suffer a 4th  successive defeat when they head to Nottingham Forest on Sunday. The signs do not look good for a team that has conceded 11 goals in 3 matches if you include their 3-2 defeat at Wolves in the EFL Cup on Tuesday, and they head to Nottingham to face a team in a confident mood. One thing that should be guaranteed is that the Hammers should at least press forward, but that will leave their shaky defense exposed and could spell disaster, so it is difficult to see them leaving the City Ground with anything.

Forest should be pretty content with the way they have started the season, especially as they look forward to their campaign in this season’s Europa League. Turmoil behind the scenes never seems far away but that seems to have calmed down in the last week and there has been plenty for manager Nuno Espirito Santo and owner Evangelos Marinakis to be satisfied with. There are even signs of potential improvement with some solid signings over the summer and strong performances after they took just 1 point from their final 4 home games of last season, with their only win in their concluding 6 games of the season coming at the London Stadium.

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