Lyle Taylor and Lewis Grabban will both be eager to open their accounts for the season as quickly as possible.

Nottingham Forest needed to bring in a new striker this summer, in order to provide quality competition for the impressive Lewis Grabban.

Grabban scored 20 goals last season, but if he had picked up an injury, it is doubtful that the likes of Rafa Mir, Nuno da Costa and Tyler Walker would have been able to step up and replace his goals.

This season is different. Taylor has been brought in after scoring 11 goals in 22 games for Charlton last term, and he has already been given a decent amount of game time when Grabban hasn't been performing.

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Taylor has started just the once in the Championship thus far with Grabban starting in four matches, with the former having to get used to being a back-up striker at the moment.

Forest fans have been discussing the idea of both Grabban and Taylor potentially playing together as a strike duo up top, in order to fit two potent goalscorers into the side.

If that did turn out to be the case, then Forest would have to switch from their usual 4-2-3-1 formation and change to a formation that accommodates two strikers up top.

Whilst it would be a tantalising prospect to have two strikers of Grabban and Taylor's goalscoring abilities up top, this could also have its drawbacks.

In his first game of charge of Forest at Blackburn Rovers on Saturday, Chris Hughton stuck with the same 4-2-3-1 system that Sabri Lamouchi used so often whilst at the helm.

Jack Colback and Ryan Yates started in defensive midfield, giving Forest real defensive steel and a solid core in the middle of the park, whilst Luke Freeman started as a number 10.

If Forest were to take Freeman and add an extra striker to the team, then Hughton would lack a creative spark in midfield - a player who, like Freeman, can pick out a killer pass and supply the strikers with service.

Furthermore, if they were to take one of Yates, Colback or Arter out of the side, then Forest would only have one holding midfielder in the team.

This would weaken their spine and potentially allow them to become overran in midfield, and they would lose the solidarity they displayed at Ewood Park.

Whilst the thought of having Taylor and Grabban playing together up top would be a mouth-watering thought, there are also major effects it could have on the team, perhaps more negative than positive.