Nottingham Forest 3-1 Birmingham City: result and report
Championship · Friday 14 October 2016
Result
Nottingham Forest 3-1 Birmingham City
Championship · Friday 14 October 2016, 18:45 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Nottingham Forest 3-1 Birmingham City: match report
Nottingham Forest beat Birmingham City 3-1 in the Championship on Friday 14 October 2016. The half-time score was 1-0.
Eric Lichaj opened the scoring in the 33rd minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Eric Lichaj (33'), Apostolos Vellios (63') and Hildeberto (83'). Birmingham City scored through Lukas Jutkiewicz (71').
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Birmingham City received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 17th on 12 points from 11 and Birmingham City 5th on 20 points from 11. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Birmingham City 19th with 53.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Henri Lansbury of Nottingham Forest (8.4), ahead of David Vaughan (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nottingham Forest wins, 3 draws and 4 for Birmingham City.
Key events
- 20'Yellow card · Jonathan Grounds
- 33'Goal · Eric Lichaj
- 63'Goal · Apostolos Vellios
- 66'Yellow card · Matthew Mills
- 71'Goal · Lukas Jutkiewicz
- 78'Yellow card · Paul Robinson
- 83'Goal · Hildeberto
- 86'Yellow card · David Davis
- 90+5'Yellow card · Hildeberto
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up (4-2-3-1)
Vladimir Stojkovic, Eric Lichaj, Matthew Mills, Damien Perquis, Armand Traore, David Vaughan, Chris Cohen, Mustapha Carayol, Henri Lansbury, Ben Osborn, Nicklas Bendtner
Birmingham City line-up (4-2-3-1)
A. Legzdiņš, Ryan Shotton, Michael Morrison, Paul Robinson, Jonathan Grounds, David Davis, Stephen Gleeson, David Cotterill, Ché Adams, Jacques Maghoma, Lukas Jutkiewicz