Forest of course are still unbeaten away from home this season, following the weekend’s draw at Prenton Park with Tranmere Rovers. However, with two points from the last nine available, we’re hardly sitting pretty on the top of the league at the moment, failing to score in the last three games.
Port Vale were keeping us off the top early doors in the season, but have since faltered a bit, losing at home to Bristol City at the weekend, with a poor record of five defeats in their last six league games. They did have a positive interlude of a cup victory over Queens Park Rangers.
Grant Holt’s calf injury that saw him start on the bench at saturday apparently hasn’t caused any lingering problem, so will be pushing for a starting place. Commons managed half an hour at the weekend, with no problems so will again have a place in the squad – it’s unlikely he’ll start though, given his lack of match fitness. Port Vale boss Martin Foyle was less than impressed with their performance at the weekend – suggesting he could replace any of his players following a poor second half performance.
Despite Vale’s recent collapse, Constantine and Sodje are always dangerous up front, so the defence will need to be on their toes to deal with them – so having Curtis back in the side to give our defence a bit of experience will be a real bonus. Last season we did the double over Port Vale, fingers crossed we can go half way to repeating this feat tomorrow night!
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