Cardiff City 1-1 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Championship · Tuesday 29 December 2015

Result

Cardiff City 1-1 Nottingham Forest

Championship · Tuesday 29 December 2015, 19:45 UTC · half-time 1-1

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Cardiff City 1-1 Nottingham Forest: match report

Cardiff City drew with Nottingham Forest 1-1 in the Championship on Tuesday 29 December 2015. The half-time score was 1-1.

Oliver Burke opened the scoring in the 9th minute. Cardiff City's goal came from A. Gunnarsson (13'). Nottingham Forest scored through Oliver Burke (9').

Discipline: Cardiff City received 1 yellow card; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Cardiff City were 10th on 33 points from 23 and Nottingham Forest 14th on 29 points from 23. Cardiff City went on to finish that season 8th with 68 points, and Nottingham Forest 16th with 55.

Cardiff City lined up in a 4-4-2 and Nottingham Forest in a 4-3-3.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 6 Cardiff City wins, 1 draw and 3 for Nottingham Forest.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 9'Goal · Oliver BurkeNottingham Forest · 0-1
  • 13'Goal · A. GunnarssonCardiff City · 1-1
  • 77'Yellow card · Jamie WardNottingham Forest
  • 87'Yellow card · FábioCardiff City

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Cardiff City 6, draws 1, Nottingham Forest 3.

Team news

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Cardiff City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Txiki Acaz, Sean Morrison, Fábio, John Brayford, Peter Whittingham, Joe Ralls, Anthony Pilkington, Kenwyne Jones

Nottingham Forest expected line-up (4-3-3)

Karl Darlow, Eric Lichaj, Danny Fox, Matthew Mills, Kelvin Wilson, Henri Lansbury, Michael Mancienne, David Vaughan, Michail Antonio