Nottingham Forest 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: result and report
Championship · Saturday 20 February 2021
Result
Nottingham Forest 1-0 Blackburn Rovers
Championship · Saturday 20 February 2021, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
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Nottingham Forest 1-0 Blackburn Rovers: match report
Nottingham Forest won against Blackburn Rovers 1-0 in the Championship on Saturday 20 February 2021. It was 1-0 at half-time.
The only goal came from Alex Mighten of Nottingham Forest in the 25th minute.
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Blackburn Rovers received 1 yellow card.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 20th on 33 points from 30 and Blackburn Rovers 12th on 39 points from 29. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 17th with 52 points, and Blackburn Rovers 15th with 57.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Blackburn Rovers in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Brice Samba of Nottingham Forest (8.2), ahead of Ryan Nyambe (7.8).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nottingham Forest wins, 5 draws and 3 for Blackburn Rovers.
Going into the match Nottingham Forest's last five read L-D-W-W-D and Blackburn Rovers's L-L-L-W-W.
Key events
- 2'Yellow card · T. Harwood-Bellis
- 25'Goal · Alex Mighten
- 41'Yellow card · Glenn Murray
- 67'Yellow card · J. Garner
- 73'Missed penalty · Adam Armstrong
Head-to-head
Team news
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Nottingham Forest line-up (4-2-3-1)
Brice Samba, Cyrus Christie, Tobias Figueiredo, Joe Worrall, Yuri Ribeiro, James Garner, Cafú, Anthony Knockaert, Filip Krovinovic, Alex Mighten, Glenn Murray
Blackburn Rovers line-up (4-2-3-1)
Thomas Kaminski, Ryan Nyambe, Taylor Harwood-Bellis, Jarrad Branthwaite, Amari'i Bell, Lewis Travis, Jacob Davenport, Sam Gallagher, Harvey Elliott, Ben Brereton Díaz, Adam Armstrong