Nottingham Forest 2-1 Aston Villa: result and report
Championship · Saturday 4 February 2017
Result
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Aston Villa
Championship · Saturday 4 February 2017, 17:30 UTC · half-time 1-1
Nottingham Forest 2-1 Aston Villa: match report
Nottingham Forest defeated Aston Villa 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 4 February 2017. It was 1-1 at half-time.
J. Kodjia opened the scoring in the 19th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Britt Assombalonga (42') and B. Brereton (90+3'). Aston Villa scored through J. Kodjia (19').
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Aston Villa received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 19th on 33 points from 29 and Aston Villa 15th on 36 points from 28. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Aston Villa 13th with 62.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Aston Villa in a 3-4-1-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Jonathan Kodjia of Aston Villa (8.1), ahead of Britt Assombalonga (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 0 Nottingham Forest wins, 1 draw and 0 for Aston Villa.
Key events
- 19'Goal · J. Kodjia
- 32'Yellow card · Jack Grealish
- 39'Yellow card · Matty Cash
- 42'Goal · Britt Assombalonga
- 45+1'Yellow card · Scott Hogan
- 78'Second yellow · Jack Grealish
- 90+3'Goal · B. Brereton
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-2-3-1)
Stephen Henderson, Eric Lichaj, Michael Mancienne, Danny Fox, Dani Pinillos, David Vaughan, Ben Osborn, Matty Cash, Zach Clough, Jamie Ward, Britt Assombalonga
Aston Villa line-up (3-4-1-2)
Sam Johnstone, James Chester, Tommy Elphick, Nathan Baker, James Bree, C. Hourihane, Henri Lansbury, Birkir Bjarnason, Jack Grealish, Jonathan Kodjia, Scott Hogan