Fulham can stay on a roll

Fulham can stretch their unbeaten sequence to 11 matches by beating Blackburn Rovers in their Premier League match at Craven Cottage on Saturday.

The Cottagers  dodged relegation by a whisker last season but they have become hard to beat this campaign with their defence, in particular, excelling. In 19 matches, Roy Hodgson’s men have conceded only 14 goals with Mark Schwarzer keeping clean sheets in five of their past seven games.

Fulham, generally chalked up at 11-10, have also found goals hard to come by, but only Manchester United have won more matches on home soil than them this term.

Blackburn are unbeaten in three league matches since Sam Allardyce succeeded Paul Ince as manager but they remain stuck in the bottom two and will have to cope without Roque Santa Cruz (calf injury) and midfielder David Dunn (hamstring). Striker Matt Derbyshire and midfielder Martin Olsson are also doubtful because of illness.

Nottingham Forest enjoyed a memorable 3-0 FA Cup success away to Manchester City last weekend and can build on that by winning a vital Coca-Cola Championship relegation scrap against Charlton Athletic at The Valley.

Forest are unbeaten in their past eight away games - picking up maximum points from recent visits to Norwich City and Southampton. Charlton have forgotten what winning anywhere is like, having gone 17 games and more than three months without a success.

Forest are 19-10 with Sporting Bet to pick up three points and add to their woes.

Norwich, like Charlton and Forest, are struggling to pull away from the Championship relegation zone and are unlikely to get anything from their match against promotion-chasing Sheffield United at Bramall Lane.

The Blades, 7-10 with Paddy Power, have striker Darius Henderson back from suspension and the only dilemma that Kevin Blackwell has is whether to include him in the starting line-up or persist with James Beattie and Danny Webber.

Last leg of the Saturday Yankee are Brentford, 7-4 with Coral to win away to Lincoln City in League Two. The Bees are unbeaten in seven and have scored at least one goal in their past eight matches. Lincoln have failed to score in three of their past four home games and their record at Sincil Bank this season - four wins from 11 - is not convincing.