The Championship resumes after the international break with the Reds first in action against a Bristol City side currently bottom of the table.
Dougie Freedman is likely to continue with the same template he has followed away from home so far this season, Forest's five league games on the road to date having yielded two wins, two draws and a solitary defeat at Brighton on the opening weekend.
And those games have seen the Reds concede just four goals, late strikes from Bolton Wanderers and Huddersfield Town denying them important victories.
Opponents Bristol gained their only win of the season in improbable circumstances when they scored the only goal of the game away to Middlesbrough in August but they have drawn their last two games and have since added Norwich winger Elliott Bennett and former Forest striker Simon Cox (from Reading) on loan until January.