Bristol City 2-1 Nottingham Forest: result and report
Championship · Saturday 16 December 2017
Result
Bristol City 2-1 Nottingham Forest
Championship · Saturday 16 December 2017, 15:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Bristol City 2-1 Nottingham Forest: match report
Bristol City defeated Nottingham Forest 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 16 December 2017. It was 2-0 at half-time.
Marlon Pack opened the scoring in the 36th minute. Bristol City's goals came from Marlon Pack (36') and Joe Bryan (45+2'). Nottingham Forest scored through Kieran Dowell (47').
Discipline: Bristol City received 2 yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Bristol City were 3rd on 40 points from 21 and Nottingham Forest 11th on 30 points from 21. Bristol City went on to finish that season 11th with 67 points, and Nottingham Forest 17th with 53.
Bristol City lined up in a 4-4-1-1 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Sander Krabbendam of Bristol City (8.0), ahead of Joe Bryan (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 5 Bristol City wins, 1 draw and 4 for Nottingham Forest.
Key events
- 25'Yellow card · Josh Brownhill
- 36'Goal · Marlon Pack
- 45+2'Goal · Joe Bryan
- 47'Goal · Kieran Dowell
- 63'Yellow card · Liam Bridcutt
- 86'Yellow card · Joe Worrall
- 90+4'Yellow card · Cauley Woodrow
Head-to-head
Team news
Bristol City line-up (4-4-1-1)
Frank Fielding, Aden Flint, Bailey Wright, Nathan Baker, Hörður Magnússon, Joe Bryan, Korey Smith, Josh Brownhill, Marlon Pack, Bobby De Cordova-Reid, Sander Krabbendam
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-2-3-1)
Jordan Smith, Eric Lichaj, Michael Mancienne, Matthew Mills, Joe Worrall, Liam Bridcutt, Mustapha Carayol, Kieran Dowell, Andreas Bouchalakis, Tyler Walker, Daryl Murphy