Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Saturday 17 October 2020

Result

Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Saturday 17 October 2020, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Blackburn Rovers 0-1 Nottingham Forest: match report

Blackburn Rovers were beaten by Nottingham Forest 0-1 in the Championship on Saturday 17 October 2020. It was 0-0 at half-time.

The only goal came from Joe Lolley of Nottingham Forest in the 90th minute.

Discipline: Blackburn Rovers received 2 yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Blackburn Rovers were 7th on 7 points from 4 and Nottingham Forest 23rd on 0 points from 4. Blackburn Rovers went on to finish that season 15th with 57 points, and Nottingham Forest 17th with 52.

Blackburn Rovers lined up in a 4-3-3 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Cyrus Christie of Nottingham Forest (8.0), ahead of Ryan Nyambe (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Blackburn Rovers wins, 5 draws and 1 for Nottingham Forest.

Going into the match Blackburn Rovers's last five read D-W-W-L and Nottingham Forest's L-L-L-L.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 28'Yellow card · Tobias FigueiredoNottingham Forest
  • 58'Yellow card · Bradley JohnsonBlackburn Rovers
  • 72'Yellow card · Sam GallagherBlackburn Rovers
  • 90'Goal · Joe LolleyNottingham Forest · 0-1

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Blackburn Rovers 4, draws 5, Nottingham Forest 1.

Team news

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Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-3-3)

Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Yuki Takahashi, Darragh Lenihan, Amari'i Bell, John Buckley, Bradley Johnson, Josef Dvornik, Tyrhys Dolan, Adam Armstrong, Ben Brereton Díaz

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

Brice Samba, Cyrus Christie, Tobias Figueiredo, Scott McKenna, Nikolas Ioannou, Ryan Yates, Jack Colback, Joe Lolley, Luke Freeman, Sammy Ameobi, Lewis Grabban