Nottingham Forest 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Friday 14 April 2017
Result
Nottingham Forest 0-1 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Friday 14 April 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 0-0
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Nottingham Forest 0-1 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Nottingham Forest were beaten by Blackburn Rovers 0-1 in the Championship on Friday 14 April 2017. It was 0-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Tommie Hoban of Blackburn Rovers in the 78th minute.
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 3 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 4 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 20th on 45 points from 41 and Blackburn Rovers 23rd on 40 points from 41. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Blackburn Rovers 22nd with 51.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 3-4-2-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-4-1-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Tommie Hoban of Blackburn Rovers (8.3), ahead of Elliott Ward (7.7).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nottingham Forest wins, 4 draws and 3 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Nottingham Forest's last five read W-L-D-D-L and Blackburn Rovers's L-L-L-D-D.
Key events
- 11'Yellow card · Armand Traore
- 53'Yellow card · E. Ward
- 65'Yellow card · Derrick Williams
- 74'Yellow card · Elliott Bennett
- 77'Yellow card · Ben Osborn
- 78'Goal · Tommie Hoban
- 90+3'Yellow card · Chris Cohen
- 90+4'Yellow card · Lucas João
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up (3-4-2-1)
Jordan Smith, Joe Worrall, Matthew Mills, Armand Traore, Eric Lichaj, Chris Cohen, David Vaughan, Ben Osborn, Jamie Ward, Zach Clough, Ben Brereton Díaz
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-4-1-1)
David Raya, Ryan Nyambe, Elliott Ward, Tommie Hoban, Derrick Williams, Connor Mahoney, Jason Lowe, Hope Akpan, Liam Feeney, Elliott Bennett, Sam Gallagher