“All the makings of a Championship classic” – AFC Bournemouth v Nottingham Forest: The verdict

This article is part of Football League World’s ‘The Verdict‘ series, which provides personal opinions from the FLW writers regarding the latest breaking news, teams, players, managers, potential signings and more…

Bournemouth host Nottingham Forest this evening in arguably the biggest game in the Championship this season.

Steve Cooper’s visitors have won nine of their last ten in the league, and are three points behind the second placed Cherries with a better goal difference.

Bournemouth have stuttered since the opening few months of the season but will arrive at the Vitality Stadium in the driving seat regardless.

We gathered the thoughts of a selection of FLW writers do see how they believe the match will pan out…

Carla Devine

This is a really hard one to call since it’s a game that means so much for both sides and could be the difference between automatic promotion and the play-offs.

Bournemouth haven’t lost a game since the start of April and they have also shown in recent weeks they have the ability to come back from behind and make sure they don’t leave a game empty-handed.

Forest have won their last four games and come into the game on the back of a massive 5-1 win at the weekend which will surely boost their confidence.

However, the last game they lost was against Luton who are another play-off team suggesting that the pressure could get to them.

This will be a very tight affair and could go either way but I’m going to say Bournemouth will edge it slightly just as they have the home advantage and have been able to gain promotion before.

Simmey Hannifin-Donaldson

What a tie this could be tonight.

It has all the makings of a Championship classic and I can see there being goals at both ends.

Having said that, I’m