Birmingham City 2-1 Nottingham Forest: result and report
Championship · Saturday 29 November 2014
Result
Birmingham City 2-1 Nottingham Forest
Championship · Saturday 29 November 2014, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Birmingham City · Nottingham Forest · Championship predictions
Birmingham City 2-1 Nottingham Forest: match report
Birmingham City defeated Nottingham Forest 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 29 November 2014. The half-time score was 1-0.
David Cotterill opened the scoring in the 10th minute. Birmingham City's goals came from David Cotterill (10') and Paul Caddis (89', penalty). Nottingham Forest scored through Britt Assombalonga (84').
Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 4 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Birmingham City were 20th on 19 points from 18 and Nottingham Forest 9th on 28 points from 18. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 10th with 63 points, and Nottingham Forest 14th with 59.
Birmingham City lined up in a 4-3-3 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-4-2.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 3 draws and 2 for Nottingham Forest.
Going into the match Birmingham City's last five read W-D-W-D-L and Nottingham Forest's W-W-L-L-L.
Key events
- 10'Goal · David Cotterill
- 45+1'Yellow card · Demarai Gray
- 61'Yellow card · Tom Ince
- 80'Yellow card · Michail Antonio
- 84'Goal · Britt Assombalonga
- 88'Red card · Britt Assombalonga
- 89'Penalty goal · Paul Caddis
- 90'Yellow card · Nicolás Frutos
- 90+5'Yellow card · Jamaal Lascelles
Head-to-head
Team news
Birmingham City expected line-up (4-3-3)
Darren Randolph, Paul Robinson, Dan Burn, Kyle Bartley, Paul Caddis, Jesse Lingard, Tom Adeyemi, Andrew Shinnie, Nikola Zigic, C. Burke, Oliver Lee
Nottingham Forest expected line-up (4-4-2)
Karl Darlow, Jamaal Lascelles, Eric Lichaj, Greg Halford, Danny Fox, Henri Lansbury, Andy Reid, C. Burke, Michael Mancienne, Jamie Mackie, James Freitas