Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Saturday 5 October 2013

Result

Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Saturday 5 October 2013, 16:30 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Brighton & Hove Albion 1-3 Nottingham Forest: match report

Brighton & Hove Albion lost to Nottingham Forest 1-3 in the Championship on Saturday 5 October 2013. The half-time score was 1-0.

A. Crofts opened the scoring in the 31st minute. Brighton & Hove Albion's goal came from A. Crofts (31'). Nottingham Forest scored through Nicolás Frutos (46'), Darius Henderson (60') and Nicolás Frutos (62', penalty).

Discipline: Brighton & Hove Albion received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 5 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Brighton & Hove Albion were 14th on 13 points from 10 and Nottingham Forest 6th on 19 points from 10. Brighton & Hove Albion went on to finish that season 6th with 72 points, and Nottingham Forest 11th with 65.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Brighton & Hove Albion wins, 4 draws and 2 for Nottingham Forest.

Going into the match Brighton & Hove Albion's last five read D-L-W-D-D and Nottingham Forest's D-W-D-D-W.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Yellow card · Nathaniel ChalobahNottingham Forest
  • 31'Goal · A. CroftsBrighton & Hove Albion · 1-0
  • 38'Yellow card · Eric LichajNottingham Forest
  • 46'Goal · Nicolás FrutosNottingham Forest · 1-1
  • 60'Goal · Darius HendersonNottingham Forest · 1-2
  • 62'Penalty goal · Nicolás FrutosNottingham Forest · 1-3
  • 67'Second yellow · Nathaniel ChalobahNottingham Forest
  • 71'Yellow card · Simon CoxNottingham Forest
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Karl DarlowNottingham Forest
  • 90+3'Yellow card · Jamie MackieNottingham Forest
  • 90+4'Yellow card · A. CroftsBrighton & Hove Albion

Head-to-head

8 meetings: Brighton & Hove Albion 2, draws 4, Nottingham Forest 2.

Team news

Brighton & Hove Albion expected line-up (4-3-3)

Tomasz Kuszczak, Matthew Upson, Gordon Greer, Iñigo Calderón, Stephen Ward, David Lopez, Andrea Orlandi, Andrew Crofts, Liam Bridcutt, Leonardo Ulloa

Nottingham Forest expected line-up

Karl Darlow, Jack Hobbs, Eric Lichaj, Kelvin Wilson, Andy Reid, Chris Cohen, Henri Lansbury, Adlène Guédioura, Jamie Mackie, Radoslaw Majewski