Liverpool 3-2 Nottingham Forest: result and report

Premier League · Saturday 22 April 2023

Result

Liverpool 3-2 Nottingham Forest

Premier League · Saturday 22 April 2023, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0

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Liverpool 3-2 Nottingham Forest: match report

Liverpool defeated Nottingham Forest 3-2 in the Premier League on Saturday 22 April 2023. The half-time score was 0-0.

Diogo Jota opened the scoring in the 47th minute. Liverpool's goals came from Diogo Jota (47'), Diogo Jota (55') and Mohamed Salah (70'). Nottingham Forest scored through Neco Williams (51') and Morgan Gibbs-White (67').

Discipline: Liverpool received no yellow cards; Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Liverpool were 8th on 47 points from 30 and Nottingham Forest 18th on 27 points from 31. Liverpool went on to finish that season 5th with 67 points, and Nottingham Forest 16th with 38.

Liverpool lined up in a 4-3-3 and Nottingham Forest in a 3-4-2-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Morgan Gibbs-White of Nottingham Forest (8.5), ahead of Trent Alexander-Arnold (7.6).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Liverpool wins, 0 draws and 1 for Nottingham Forest.

Data as of 3 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 47'Goal · Diogo JotaLiverpool · 1-0
  • 51'Goal · Neco WilliamsNottingham Forest · 1-1
  • 55'Goal · Diogo JotaLiverpool · 2-1
  • 67'Goal · Morgan Gibbs-WhiteNottingham Forest · 2-2
  • 70'Goal · Mohamed SalahLiverpool · 3-2
  • 83'Yellow card · Neco WilliamsNottingham Forest

Head-to-head

1 meetings: Liverpool 0, draws 0, Nottingham Forest 1.

Team news

Liverpool line-up (4-3-3)

Alisson, Trent Alexander-Arnold, Ibrahima Konaté, Virgil van Dijk, Andrew Robertson, Jordan Henderson, Fabinho, Curtis Jones, Mohamed Salah, Cody Gakpo, Diogo Jota

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

Keylor Navas, Felipe Augusto de Almeida Monteiro, Moussa Niakhaté, Scott McKenna, Neco Williams, Remo Freuler, Orel Mangala, Renan Lodi, Morgan Gibbs-White, Danilo, Taiwo Awoniyi