Nottingham Forest 2-0 Huddersfield Town: result and report
Championship · Saturday 8 April 2017
Result
Nottingham Forest 2-0 Huddersfield Town
Championship · Saturday 8 April 2017, 14:00 UTC · half-time 1-0
Nottingham Forest · Huddersfield Town · Championship predictions
Nottingham Forest 2-0 Huddersfield Town: match report
Nottingham Forest won against Huddersfield Town 2-0 in the Championship on Saturday 8 April 2017. The half-time score was 1-0.
Eric Lichaj opened the scoring in the 32nd minute. Nottingham Forest's goals came from Eric Lichaj (32') and Jamie Ward (57'). Huddersfield Town did not score.
Discipline: Nottingham Forest received 1 yellow card; Huddersfield Town received 3 yellow cards.
Going into the game Nottingham Forest were 20th on 42 points from 40 and Huddersfield Town 4th on 70 points from 39. Nottingham Forest went on to finish that season 21st with 51 points, and Huddersfield Town 5th with 80.
Nottingham Forest lined up in a 3-4-1-2 and Huddersfield Town in a 4-2-3-1. The highest match rating in our data went to Jamie Ward of Nottingham Forest (8.2), ahead of Chris Cohen (8.0).
Before this game the head-to-head record in our data stood at 3 Nottingham Forest wins, 2 draws and 4 for Huddersfield Town.
Key events
- 31'Yellow card · Eric Lichaj
- 32'Goal · Eric Lichaj
- 44'Yellow card · N. Wells
- 57'Goal · Jamie Ward
- 78'Yellow card · Dean Whitehead
- 78'Yellow card · Dean Whitehead
Head-to-head
Team news
Nottingham Forest line-up (3-4-1-2)
Jordan Smith, Joe Worrall, Matthew Mills, Armand Traore, Eric Lichaj, David Vaughan, Chris Cohen, Ben Osborn, Zach Clough, Ben Brereton Díaz, Jamie Ward
Huddersfield Town line-up (4-2-3-1)
Danny Ward, Tommy Smith, Michael Hefele, Christopher Schindler, Tareiq Holmes-Dennis, Jonathan Hogg, Philip Billing, Elias Kachunga, Aaron Mooy, Rajiv van La Parra, Nahki Wells