Nottingham Forest 3-1 Cardiff City: result and report
Championship · Saturday 20 October 2012
Result
Nottingham Forest 3-1 Cardiff City
Championship · Saturday 20 October 2012, 14:00 UTC · half-time 2-0
Nottingham Forest 3-1 Cardiff City: match report
Nottingham Forest defeated Cardiff City 3-1 in the Championship on Saturday 20 October 2012. It was 2-0 at half-time.
A. Reid opened the scoring in the 25th minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from A. Reid (25'), Daniel Ayala (27') and Billy Sharp (47'). Cardiff City scored through Heidar Helguson (74').
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 12th on 14 points from 10 and Cardiff City 1st on 22 points from 10. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 8th with 67 points, and Cardiff City 1st with 87.
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 2 Nottingham Forest wins, 2 draws and 4 for Cardiff City.
Going into the match Nottingham Forest's last five read W-D-L-L-D and Cardiff City's W-W-W-L-W.
Key events
- 25'Goal · A. Reid
- 27'Goal · Daniel Ayala
- 45'Yellow card · Matthew Connolly
- 45'Yellow card · Simon Cox
- 47'Goal · Billy Sharp
- 58'Yellow card · A. Guédioura
- 74'Goal · Heidar Helguson
- 84'Second yellow · A. Guédioura
- 90'Yellow card · M. Hudson
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up
Danny Collins, Greg Halford, Yuki Takahashi, Simon Gillett, Adlène Guédioura, Chris Cohen, Andy Reid, Simon Cox, Patrick McCarthy, Lee Camp, Dan Harding
Cardiff City line-up
Txiki Acaz, Kevin McNaughton, Andrew Taylor, Matthew Connolly, Peter Whittingham, D. Cowie, Craig Conway, Aron Gunnarsson, Tommy Smith, Heidar Helguson, Mark Hudson