Nottingham Forest 3-0 Birmingham City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 17 August 2019

Result

Nottingham Forest 3-0 Birmingham City

Championship · Saturday 17 August 2019, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0

Nottingham Forest · Birmingham City · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 3-0 Birmingham City: match report

Nottingham Forest won against Birmingham City 3-0 in the Championship on Saturday 17 August 2019. It was 2-0 at half-time.

Joe Lolley opened the scoring in the 15th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Joe Lolley (15'), Lewis Grabban (22') and Michael Dawson (65'). Birmingham City did not score.

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received no yellow cards; Birmingham City received 2 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 19th on 1 point from 2 and Birmingham City 7th on 4 points from 2. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 7th with 70 points, and Birmingham City 21st with 50.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Birmingham City in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Joe Lolley of Nottingham Forest (8.9), ahead of Jack Robinson (8.1).

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 15'Goal · Joe LolleyNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 15'Yellow card · Ivan SunjicBirmingham City
  • 22'Goal · Lewis GrabbanNottingham Forest · 2-0
  • 63'Yellow card · Álvaro GiménezBirmingham City
  • 65'Goal · Michael DawsonNottingham Forest · 3-0

Head-to-head

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

Team news

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

Arijanet Murić, Joe Worrall, Matty Cash, Jack Robinson, Michael Dawson, Ben Watson, Alfa Semedo, Sammy Ameobi, Samba Sow, Joe Lolley, Lewis Grabban

Birmingham City line-up (4-4-1-1)

Lee Camp, Kristian Pedersen, M. Roberts, Maxime Colin, Harlee Dean, Fran Villalba, Gary Gardner, David Davis, Ivan Šunjić, Dan Crowley, Lukas Jutkiewicz