Aston Villa 2-1 Nottingham Forest: result and report
Championship · Saturday 23 September 2017
Result
Aston Villa 2-1 Nottingham Forest
Championship · Saturday 23 September 2017, 16:30 UTC · half-time 1-0
Aston Villa 2-1 Nottingham Forest: match report
Aston Villa beat Nottingham Forest 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 23 September 2017. The half-time score was 1-0.
Albert Adomah opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Aston Villa's goals came from Albert Adomah (15') and Conor Hourihane (60'). Nottingham Forest scored through Daryl Murphy (52').
Discipline: Aston Villa received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Aston Villa were 16th on 10 points from 8 and Nottingham Forest 11th on 12 points from 8. Aston Villa went on to finish that season 3rd with 90 points, and Nottingham Forest 17th with 53.
Aston Villa lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to C. Hourihane of Aston Villa (8.1), ahead of Daryl Murphy (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Aston Villa wins, 1 draw and 1 for Nottingham Forest.
Key events
- 15'Goal · Albert Adomah
- 42'Yellow card · Liam Bridcutt
- 52'Goal · Daryl Murphy
- 59'Yellow card · B. Brereton
- 60'Goal · Conor Hourihane
- 90'Yellow card · Matthew Mills
- 90+5'Yellow card · Neil Taylor
Head-to-head
Team news
Aston Villa line-up (4-4-2)
Sam Johnstone, Neil Taylor, James Chester, John Terry, Ahmed Eissa El Mohamady Abdel Fattah, Glenn Whelan, Robert Snodgrass, C. Hourihane, Albert Adomah, Jonathan Kodjia, Keinan Davis
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jordan Smith, Matthew Mills, Armand Traore, Tendayi Darikwa, Joe Worrall, Liam Bridcutt, Barrie McKay, Ben Brereton Díaz, Kieran Dowell, Andreas Bouchalakis, Daryl Murphy