Nottingham Forest 2-1 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 19 February 2011

Result

Nottingham Forest 2-1 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 19 February 2011, 15:00 UTC · half-time 1-0

Nottingham Forest · Cardiff City · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 2-1 Cardiff City: match report

Nottingham Forest beat Cardiff City 2-1 in the Championship on Saturday 19 February 2011. It was 1-0 at half-time.

Wes Morgan opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Wes Morgan (32') and Robert Earnshaw (67'). Cardiff City scored through Peter Whittingham (65', penalty).

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received no yellow cards; Cardiff City received 3 yellow cards.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 4th on 53 points from 30 and Cardiff City 2nd on 55 points from 31. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 6th with 76 points, and Cardiff City 4th with 81.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 1 Nottingham Forest win, 2 draws and 2 for Cardiff City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 32'Goal · Wes MorganNottingham Forest · 1-0
  • 57'Yellow card · D. KeinanCardiff City
  • 61'Yellow card · M. HudsonCardiff City
  • 65'Penalty goal · Peter WhittinghamCardiff City · 1-1
  • 67'Goal · Robert EarnshawNottingham Forest · 2-1
  • 75'Yellow card · Jay BothroydCardiff City

Head-to-head

5 meetings: Nottingham Forest 1, draws 2, Cardiff City 2.

Team news

Nottingham Forest line-up

Paul Konchesky, Luke Chambers, Wes Morgan, Chris Gunter, Paul Anderson, Lewis McGugan, Chris Cohen, Paul McKenna, Robert Earnshaw, Marcus Tudgay, Lee Camp

Cardiff City line-up

Tom Heaton, Kevin McNaughton, Dekel Keinan, Paul Quinn, Peter Whittingham, C. Burke, Oluwaseyi Olofinjana, Jon Parkin, Craig Bellamy, Mark Hudson, Jay Bothroyd