Birmingham City 0-3 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Saturday 2 October 2021

Result

Birmingham City 0-3 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Saturday 2 October 2021, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-2

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Birmingham City 0-3 Nottingham Forest: match report

Birmingham City were beaten by Nottingham Forest 0-3 in the Championship on Saturday 2 October 2021. It was 0-2 at half-time.

Lewis Grabban opened the scoring in the 11th minute. Birmingham City did not score. Nottingham Forest scored through Lewis Grabban (11'), Ryan Yates (29') and D. Spence (53').

Discipline: Birmingham City received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Birmingham City were 16th on 12 points from 10 and Nottingham Forest 21st on 8 points from 10. Birmingham City went on to finish that season 21st with 47 points, and Nottingham Forest 3rd with 86.

Birmingham City lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Nottingham Forest in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Brice Samba of Nottingham Forest (9.3), ahead of Philip Zinckernagel (8.4).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Birmingham City wins, 4 draws and 3 for Nottingham Forest.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 11'Goal · Lewis GrabbanNottingham Forest · 0-1
  • 29'Goal · Ryan YatesNottingham Forest · 0-2
  • 32'Yellow card · Lukas JutkiewiczBirmingham City
  • 36'Yellow card · Ryan YatesNottingham Forest
  • 53'Goal · D. SpenceNottingham Forest · 0-3
  • 59'Yellow card · Max LoweNottingham Forest
  • 67'Yellow card · Lewis GrabbanNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Birmingham City 3, draws 4, Nottingham Forest 3.

Team news

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Birmingham City line-up (3-4-1-2)

Matija Šarkić, M. Roberts, Harlee Dean, Kristian Pedersen, Maxime Colin, Ryan Woods, Ivan Šunjić, Jérémie Bela, Tahith Chong, Scott Hogan, Lukas Jutkiewicz

Nottingham Forest line-up (3-4-2-1)

Brice Samba, Joe Worrall, Tobias Figueiredo, Scott McKenna, Djed Spence, Ryan Yates, Jack Colback, Max Lowe, Brennan Johnson, Philip Zinckernagel, Lewis Grabban