Bournemouth vs. Nottingham: Preview and betting tips

On Tuesday, in addition to Villarreal’s clash with Liverpool in the Champions League, there will also be a match for direct promotion to the Premier League, with second-placed Bournemouth taking on third-placed Nottingham. What to expect from the match?

Bournemouth have been complicating their path to direct promotion since March, winning only two of their last seven games and they are only three points behind third placed Nottingham. A month ago, it looked like an easy progression.

The visitors, on the other hand, are on a winning streak of eight wins from the last nine rounds, which took them first into the top six and then into contact with the very top of the table. Now Nottingham are three points behind the relegation second place, so they must win on Tuesday.

Handsome striker Dominic Solanke is having an excellent season, making thirty goals and seven assists in a Bournemouth jersey. Scottish speedster Ryan Christie has split the net three times and added eight goal assists.

In the Nottingham squad, Brennan Johnson is firing it up, the 20-year-old Welsh international has hit sixteen times and assisted nine times.

Bournemouth will have a full squad apart from the injured David Brooks, while the visitors have to do without captain Lewis Grabban, Kienan Davies and Max Lowe.

Bournemouth are not doing well at home at all, winning only two of their last six games here, losing against Peterborough for example.

Nottingham, on the other hand, have won three of their last four away games and have only conceded twice.

Considering the away team’s long term form, their well functioning defence and the injury to the home team’s Brooks, I think Nottingham will not lose.