Relegated from the Premier League last season, Hull City have made a solid, if unspectacular, start to getting back into the top-flight with four wins and three draws from their nine games to date.
Abel Hernandez netted his fourth goal of the season in last weekend's home draw against Blackburn Rovers where Jordan Rhodes denied the Tigers a win with a stoppage time equaliser.
Shaun Maloney and Jake Livermore were introduced as substitutes in that game and both earned the praise of manager Steve Bruce afterwards. A place in the starting line-up at the City Ground looks likely for the duo
For Nottingham Forest the game represents the fifth since the international break and the last for just under two weeks before a Friday night trip to Bristol City on 16th October.
Seven points from four games is a haul that few would have expected going into this set of fixtures and Dougie Freedman could justifiably say it would have been more but for Henri Lansbury's penalty miss against Middlesbrough and Huddersfield's deflected equaliser at the John Smith's Stadium last Thursday.
2,000 visiting fans will be in attendance on Saturday and a season-high crowd should be on the cards as home supporters begin to believe that the Reds are on the rise.