Nottingham Forest 2-1 Brentford: result and report

Nottingham Forest 2-1 Brentford

Championship · Saturday 9 February 2019, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

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Nottingham Forest defeated Brentford 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 9 February 2019. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Lewis Grabban opened the scoring in the 16th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Lewis Grabban (16') and Molla Wagué (79'). Brentford scored through Sergi Canós (89').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards; Brentford received 1 yellow card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 12th on 42 points from 30 and Brentford 17th on 37 points from 29. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 9th with 66 points, and Brentford 11th with 64.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-2-3-1 and Brentford in a 3-4-3. The highest match rating in our data went to Henrik Dalsgaard of Brentford (8.1), ahead of Sergi Canós (7.8).

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nottingham Forest win, 1 draw and 7 for Brentford.

Going into the match Nottingham Forest's last five read L-W-L-L-W and Brentford's W-W-W-D-D.