Nottingham Forest 2-2 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 25 August 2018

Result

Nottingham Forest 2-2 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 25 August 2018, 16:30 UTC · half-time 0-1

Nottingham Forest · Birmingham City · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 2-2 Birmingham City: match report

Nottingham Forest drew with Birmingham City 2-2 in the Championship on Saturday 25 August 2018. The half-time score was 0-1.

Lukas Jutkiewicz opened the scoring in the 21st minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Joe Lolley (75') and Daryl Murphy (87'). Birmingham City scored through Lukas Jutkiewicz (21') and Ché Adams (72').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 4 yellow cards; Birmingham City received no yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 14th on 6 points from 4 and Birmingham City 22nd on 2 points from 4. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 9th with 66 points, and Birmingham City 14th with 61.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-2. The highest match rating in our data went to Lukas Jutkiewicz of Birmingham City (7.8), ahead of Joe Lolley (7.7).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 4 Nottingham Forest wins, 3 draws and 3 for Birmingham City.

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 21'Goal · Lukas JutkiewiczBirmingham City · 0-1
  • 32'Yellow card · Tobias FigueiredoNottingham Forest
  • 41'Yellow card · Danny FoxNottingham Forest
  • 45'Yellow card · Daryl MurphyNottingham Forest
  • 72'Goal · Ché AdamsBirmingham City · 0-2
  • 75'Goal · Joe LolleyNottingham Forest · 1-2
  • 84'Yellow card · Jack ColbackNottingham Forest
  • 87'Goal · Daryl MurphyNottingham Forest · 2-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nottingham Forest 4, draws 3, Birmingham City 3.

Team news

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

Costel Pantilimon, Sam Byram, Tobias Figueiredo, Danny Fox, Jack Robinson, Ben Watson, Jack Colback, Matty Cash, El Arbi Hillel Soudani, Gil Dias, Daryl Murphy

Birmingham City line-up (4-4-2)

Lee Camp, Maxime Colin, Michael Morrison, Harlee Dean, Kristian Pedersen, Jota Peleteiro, Gary Gardner, Maikel Kieftenbeld, Jacques Maghoma, Lukas Jutkiewicz, Omar Bogle