Nottingham Forest 1-2 Cardiff City: result and report

Championship · Saturday 2 May 2015

Result

Nottingham Forest 1-2 Cardiff City

Championship · Saturday 2 May 2015, 11:15 UTC · half-time 0-2

Nottingham Forest · Cardiff City · Championship predictions

Nottingham Forest 1-2 Cardiff City: match report

Nottingham Forest were beaten by Cardiff City 1-2 in the Championship on Saturday 2 May 2015. It was 0-2 at half-time.

J. Ralls opened the scoring in the 14th minute. Nottingham Forest's goal came from Dexter Blackstock (90+1'). Cardiff City scored through J. Ralls (14') and E. Doyle (24').

Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 4 yellow cards; Cardiff City received 2 yellow cards and 1 red card.

Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 12th on 59 points from 45 and Cardiff City 13th on 59 points from 45. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 14th with 59 points, and Cardiff City 11th with 62.

Nottingham Forest lined up in a 4-1-4-1 and Cardiff City in a 4-4-2.

Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nottingham Forest wins, 2 draws and 5 for Cardiff City.

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

Data as of 4 Nov 2026.

Key events

  • 14'Goal · J. RallsCardiff City · 0-1
  • 16'Yellow card · Lee PeltierCardiff City
  • 24'Goal · E. DoyleCardiff City · 0-2
  • 41'Yellow card · Jamaal LascellesNottingham Forest
  • 45+2'Yellow card · Michail AntonioNottingham Forest
  • 57'Yellow card · A. GunnarssonCardiff City
  • 66'Yellow card · Todd KaneNottingham Forest
  • 76'Red card · David MarshallCardiff City
  • 76'Yellow card · Nicolás FrutosNottingham Forest
  • 90+1'Goal · Dexter BlackstockNottingham Forest · 1-2

Head-to-head

10 meetings: Nottingham Forest 3, draws 2, Cardiff City 5.

Team news

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Nottingham Forest expected line-up (4-1-4-1)

Karl Darlow, Eric Lichaj, Danny Fox, Jack Hobbs, Kelvin Wilson, Henri Lansbury, Michael Mancienne, C. Burke, Michail Antonio, Britt Assombalonga

Cardiff City expected line-up (4-4-2)

Txiki Acaz, Bruno Ecuele Manga, Sean Morrison, Fábio, John Brayford, Peter Whittingham, Aron Gunnarsson, Craig Noone, Joe Ralls, Federico Macheda, Anthony Pilkington