Nottingham Forest vs. Brighton Betting Tips: 99/100 and 5/1 selections for Wednesday's meeting

Two sides with completely different aspirations from their remaining fixtures meet at the City Ground as Nottingham Forest welcome Brighton to the East Midlands.

Here is our full match preview, complete with two recommended betting angles.

The Premier League's bottom seven teams have all played 32 times, leaving Forest a point from safety down in 19th place with six cup finals to go. Steve Cooper's side are winless in 11, but the fact that only one of the teams in the relegation mix won at the weekend shows how tight this year's contest is.

Brighton's Wembley woes continued on Sunday as they fell to defeat on penalties against Manchester United in the FA Cup semi-final. Their focus is now on attaining European football next season, with Champions League still very much a possibility depending on how strongly they can finish the campaign.

Wednesday's hosts are 11/2 with BetVictor and Pari Match to secure all three points. The draw is priced around the 17/5 mark, while the Seagulls are the 3/5 favourites to take home all the spoils from Nottingham.

Despite going winless for a stretch of 11 games, it's important to note that Nottingham Forest at the City Ground and Nottingham Forest away from home are almost two entirely separate entities.

The Tricky Trees have drawn three of their last five matches on home turf, adding to an already impressive home record for the newly promoted side who boast points against Liverpool, Manchester City and Chelsea.

Compare that to the solitary win and worryingly low accumulative tally of five points on the road this term and you'll see what we mean.

While we aren't necessarily confident they'll have the guile to overturn Brighton, the Asian Handicap market offers a more preventive entry into predicting the match's result.

If betting on Forest's home games this season using this particular line, three of the last six would be a winner without them even earning the victory on any of these occasions, while a further two plays would have been void due to the hosts losing by only one goal.

Over the course of the season's fixtures at the City Ground, this bet has been successful 11 out of 16 times and seen customers' stakes returned on a further three occasions.

Given how these numbers appear, the selection should be priced around the 4/9 mark, offering quite a bit of appeal to the 99/100 on show.

For something at a larger price, we've pieced together this 5/1 three-pronged bet builder.

12 of Forest's 16 home games have seen under four goals scored, with their 2-2 draw against Everton proving the only exception in their last nine matches at the City Ground.

Both teams have found the net in four of their last five at home, while Brighton have rewarded BTTS backers in 12 of their 15 away trips this campaign.

Under Roberto De Zerbi, Albion have scored at least one first half goal in 19 games of his 30 match tenure so far which includes success in nine of their last 10. Sunday's trip to Wembley being the outlier in this department.

It's also worth noting that four of the last five visitors to Nottingham have had first half success in front of goal. Wolves are the only recent guest to fail in finding the net inside the match's opening 45 minutes.