Premier League and Carabao Cup final: 10 things to look out for this weekend

(1) Forest have weapons to vanquish Villa

Forest are in trouble, four points above the relegation zone and with their only win in their past five games coming against West Ham, the league’s current crisis-club.

So a visit to Villa Park is the last thing they need because, after a dodgy few weeks, the home side righted themselves at Fulham last weekend, focused on converting a fine season into a Champions League place.

Forest do, though, know how to play these kinds of matches, having won at Newcastle and given Arsenal and Manchester United scares. In Morgan Gibbs-White, they have a ball-carrier of pace and aggression, while Anthony Elanga and Callum Hudson-Odoi bring tricky directness and Taiwo Awoniyi converts his chances at a better rate than any striker in the division.

All of this means Forest are well-placed to exploit Villa’s high line, but only if they can get enough of the ball to make it happen while staying solid at the back – both of which are far easier said than done. Daniel Harris

(2) Trouble for Everton as Adingra asserts

Not since the third week in September have Brighton won consecutive league games – a malaise they could scarcely have a better chance of remedying on Saturday, with last weekend’s win over bottom-of-the-table Sheffield United followed by the visit of fourth-bottom Everton.

They will make it difficult for Brighton, defending deep and narrow, but in Simon Adingra, Roberto De Zerbi’s men have one of the form-players in world football whose speed, aggression and invention will be vital in getting down and around the sides of Sean Dyche’s well-drilled defence.

And though Danny Welbeck is currently the preferred centre-forward, it is not hard to imagine him hitting the front-post runs of Evan