Sporting Lisbon vs Nottingham Forest - prediction, team news, lineups

Nottingham Forest reason their pre-season grooming campy successful Portugal with a affable against Sporting Lisbon. 

The lucifer volition instrumentality spot connected Friday evening, astir 9 hours aft Forest look different Portuguese outfit, Portimonense. 

Match preview

Sporting person started their pre-season docket with 3 consecutive victories, including an awesome 4-1 triumph implicit Scottish champions Celtic.

They past hammered Strasbourg 7-0 earlier they recorded a 2-0 triumph successful Saturday's gathering with Monaco, which came courtesy of goals from Rafael Nel and Jesse Derry. 

Derry has joined connected a season-long indebtedness from Chelsea arsenic 1 of Sporting's 7 summertime additions, on with Ibrahima Ba, Silas Andersen, Pedro Lima, Issa Doumbia, Sergi Altimira and Rodrigo Zalazar.

However, determination person besides been a fig of cardinal departures, including Francisco Trincao to Al-Ahli, Morten Hjulmand to Atletico Madrid and Geovany Quenda to Chelsea.

Sporting are besides acceptable to suffer Ousmane Diomande to Friday's opponents, truthful Sporting volition surely beryllium looking to marque much additions if they are to situation for the Primeira Liga rubric aft finishing six points adrift of winners Porto past term.

The affable with Forest represents the club's last pre-season outing earlier the caller play starts with an distant crippled against Estrela connected August 8, the archetypal of 7 league matches earlier the planetary break.

Forest volition beryllium hoping for amended fortunes nether caller brag Oliver Glasner aft experiencing a tumultuous 2025-26 run that saw them spell done 4 antithetic managers.

Nuno Espirito Santos, Ange Postecoglou and Sean Dyche each spent clip successful complaint earlier proprietor Evangelos Marinakis turned to Vitor Pereira successful February.

The Portuguese manager guided the Tricky Trees to safety, but helium was somewhat harshly dismissed astatine the extremity of the season, arsenic Marinakis spotted the accidental to name Oliver Glasner pursuing his exit from Crystal Palace.

While Elliot Anderson has departed for Manchester City successful a £116m deal, Forest person made conscionable 1 caller summation astatine the clip of writing, recruiting midfielder Xaver Schlager from RB Leipzig connected a escaped transfer.

Forest's recruitment squad volition look to marque further additions portion Glasner focuses connected the six friendlies earlier the commencement of the season, including 2 games connected Friday and 2 45-minute affairs against Udinese and Barcelona connected August 8.

The Tricky Trees person made an unbeaten commencement to their pre-season schedule, signaling a 2-0 triumph implicit section rivals Notts County earlier starting their grooming campy successful Portugal with a 3-0 victory against Championship broadside Blackburn Rovers.

Forest past played retired a 1-1 gully successful Sunday's clash against Primeira Liga outfit Vitoria de Guimaraes, which saw Igor Jesus netting his 3rd extremity successful 3 games. 

Sporting Lisbon friendlies form:

W W W 

Nottingham Forest friendlies form:

W W D

Team News

Diomande volition not diagnostic owed to the information that helium could beryllium a Forest subordinate by the clip the 2 teams conscionable connected Friday evening.

Eduardo Quaresma, who precocious signed a declaration hold until 2031, could commencement successful a backmost 4 alongside Georgios Vagiannidis, Eduardo Felicissimo and Maxi Araujo. 

At the other extremity of the pitch, Nel could beryllium fixed the accidental to pb the enactment aft uncovering the nett against Monaco astatine the weekend. 

As for Forest, their lineup volition beryllium connected which players commencement the affable against Portimonense earlier successful the day, which means determination is large uncertainty astir the make-up of the XI for the gathering with Sporting. 

Swiss guardant Dan Ndoye is inactive connected his summertime interruption aft helping his state marque the World Cup quarter-finals.

Forest precocious announced a caller declaration for Ibrahim Sangare, who has linked up with his teammates pursuing his engagement successful Ivory Coast's World Cup campaign, though it remains to beryllium seen whether helium volition beryllium acceptable to diagnostic successful either of Friday's games. 

Sporting Lisbon imaginable starting lineup:

Virginia; Vagiannidis, Quaresma, Felicissimo, Araujo; Altimira, Doumbia; Geny, Zalazar, Goncalves; Nel

Nottingham Forest imaginable starting lineup:

Sels; Cunha, Milenkovic, Morato; Aina, Dominguez, Schlager, Williams; Gibbs-White, McAtee; Jesus

We say: Sporting Lisbon 1-1 Nottingham Forest

Forest volition look a tricky trial against 1 of Portugal's biggest sides, and portion they are yet to suffer successful pre-season, they spell against a squad that has won 3 consecutive friendlies, truthful we deliberation the Tricky Trees whitethorn find it hard to get the triumph connected Friday. 

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